---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000833079-25-000102"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTH"
cik: "0000833079"
company_name: "Meritage Homes CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T19:47:07.162702+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Meritage stockholders approve board declassification, elect directors, support political transparency proposal

## Summary
- Declassification amendment passed: 61.3M for, 53k against, 3.8M broker non-votes.
- Political spending transparency stockholder proposal passed: 35.4M for, 25.8M against.
- Seven directors elected (e.g., Arriola 61.3M, Ax 58.9M, Keough 61.3M, Lantz 61.3M, Lord 61.1M, Odell 59.2M, Williams 61.3M).
- Deloitte as auditor ratified (63.9M for); advisory say-on-pay approved (58.5M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000833079-25-000102
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTH
- cik: 0000833079
- company_name: Meritage Homes CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307925000102/0000833079-25-000102-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307925000102/mth-20250522.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833079-25-000102
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833079-25-000102.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833079-25-000102.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Meritage Homes CORP: Amended and Restated Bylaws to reflect declassification of Board of Directors (effective 2025-05-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-22
  source text: On May 22, 2025, Meritage Homes Corporation's (the "Company") Board of Directors adopted conforming amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws to reflect the declassification of the Board of Directors pursuant to the Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation that was approved by the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 22, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307925000102/0000833079-25-000102-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.