---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000927628-24-000178"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COF"
cik: "0000927628"
company_name: "CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T23:39:58.325088+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Capital One stockholders approve 53M-share stock purchase plan, elect all director nominees

## Summary
- Approved Amended 2002 Associate Stock Purchase Plan, increasing share reserve to 53 million shares.
- All 12 director nominees elected with votes ranging from ~308M to ~323M for; broker non-votes ~28.4M.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with ~308.1M votes for, ~15.9M against.
- Shareholder proposals on GHG targets (32.5M for, 289.8M against), workforce civil liberties (3.0M for, 319.6M against), and director resignation bylaw (33.1M for, 290.3M against) all failed.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2024 approved with ~337.7M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000927628-24-000178
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COF
- cik: 0000927628
- company_name: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/cof-20240502.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000927628-24-000178.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Stockholders elected Mr. Richard D. Fairbank, Mr. Ime Archibong, Ms. Christine Detrick, Ms. Ann Fritz Hackett, Ms. Suni P. Harford, Mr. Peter Thomas Killalea, Mr. Cornelis Petrus Adrianus Joseph (“Eli”) Leenaars, Mr. François Locoh-Donou, Mr. Peter E. Raskind, Ms. Eileen Serra, Mr. Mayo A. Shattuck III and Mr. Craig Anthony Williams to the Company’s Board of Directors for terms expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders or until such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of the Company for 2024 at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Ratification of Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm of the Company for 2024 337,747,106 14,859,871 201,653 N/A
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders rejected Report on Respecting Workforce Civil Liberties at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Stockholder Proposal Report on Respecting Workforce Civil Liberties 2,956,632 319,575,880 1,864,550 28,411,568
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Advisory Approval of the Company’s 2023 Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Advisory Approval of the Company’s 2023 Named Executive Officer Compensation 308,121,145 15,908,838 367,079 28,411,568
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Approval and Adoption of the Company’s Amended and Restated 2002 Associate Stock Purchase Plan at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Approval and Adoption of the Company’s Amended and Restated 2002 Associate Stock Purchase Plan 320,959,342 3,209,850 227,870 28,411,568
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders rejected Director Election Resignation Bylaw Proposal at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Stockholder Proposal Director Election Resignation Bylaw Proposal 33,126,745 290,334,050 936,267 28,411,568
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP shareholders rejected Setting of Near- and Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets at the 2024-05-02 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-02
  source text: Stockholder Proposal Setting of Near- and Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets 32,529,942 289,824,329 2,042,791 28,411,568
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762824000178/0000927628-24-000178-index.htm

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