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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000796343-24-000086"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADBE"
cik: "0000796343"
company_name: "ADOBE INC."
filed_at: "2024-04-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T17:36:03.069346+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adobe stockholders approve 5M share increase in equity plan; all director nominees elected

## Summary
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, increasing share reserve by 5,000,000 shares.
- All 12 director nominees were elected; votes for ranged from approximately 318.9M to 348.6M.
- KPMG ratified as independent auditor for fiscal 2024 with 363.8M votes in favor.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved with 297.3M votes for, 53.0M against.
- Two stockholder proposals defeated: mandatory director resignation policy (71.4M for) and hiring report on arrest/incarceration records (47.8M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000796343-24-000086
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADBE
- cik: 0000796343
- company_name: ADOBE INC.
- filed_at: 2024-04-19T23:59:59+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/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/adbe-20240417.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders approved Approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders approved Elect twelve members of the Board of Directors at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, held on April 17, 2024, the Company’s stockholders approved proposals one through four and did not approve proposals five through six listed below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders approved Approve the 2019 Plan to increase the available share reserve by 5 million shares at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Approve the 2019 Plan to increase the available share reserve by 5 million shares.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders rejected Stockholder proposal concerning a report on hiring of persons with arrest or incarceration records at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Vote upon a stockholder proposal concerning a report on hiring of persons with arrest or incarceration records.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders rejected Stockholder proposal concerning a mandatory director resignation policy at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Vote upon a stockholder proposal concerning a mandatory director resignation policy.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ADOBE INC. shareholders approved Ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending on November 29, 2024 at the 2024-04-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-17
  source text: Ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending on November 29, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796343/000079634324000086/0000796343-24-000086-index.htm

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