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accession: "0000705432-25-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBSI"
cik: "0000705432"
company_name: "SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Shareholders approve 2025 Incentive Plan reserving 1.2M shares; elect directors at annual meeting

## Summary
- Shareholders approved 2025 Incentive Plan, authorizing 1,200,000 shares for future awards.
- Elected directors: Shannon Dacus, Alton L. Frailey, Lee R. Gibson (3-year); Michael J. Bosworth (1-year).
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed: 19,286,484 for, 776,285 against, 46,710 abstain.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2025: 24,795,212 for, 235,780 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000705432-25-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBSI
- cik: 0000705432
- company_name: SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543225000082/0000705432-25-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543225000082/sbsi-20250514.htm

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