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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000712515-22-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EA"
cik: "0000712515"
company_name: "ELECTRONIC ARTS INC."
filed_at: "2022-08-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T00:08:34.981875+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EA authorizes $2.6B stock buyback, adds 16M shares to equity plan

## Summary
- Board authorized new $2.6B share repurchase program; will begin after current program completes (late Sept/early Oct 2022), expires Nov 4, 2024.
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, adding 16M shares; total reserved shares now 29.5M.
- Shareholders approved reduction in threshold to call special meetings from 25% to 15%.
- All eight director nominees elected; advisory vote on executive pay passed with 92% support.
- Stockholder proposal on termination pay failed, with 47% for and 53% against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000712515-22-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EA
- cik: 0000712515
- company_name: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
- filed_at: 2022-08-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000071251522000047/0000712515-22-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000071251522000047/ea-20220811.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000712515-22-000047.txt

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