---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950157-25-000455"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CABO"
cik: "0001632127"
company_name: "Cable One, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T01:41:34.127016+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Julia Laulis to retire by year-end 2025; Cable One begins search for successor

## Summary
- Julia Laulis will step down as Chair, President & CEO by Dec 31, 2025, or upon successor's appointment.
- She will serve as senior advisor through Jan 3, 2027, with base salary of $472,500 annualized post-retirement.
- Board retains global executive search firm to identify next CEO; departure not due to any disagreement.
- Retirement agreement includes 2025 bonus at 125% target, COBRA lump sum, and customary release of claims.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950157-25-000455
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CABO
- cik: 0001632127
- company_name: Cable One, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632127/000095015725000455/0000950157-25-000455-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632127/000095015725000455/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950157-25-000455.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julia M. Laulis departed as Chair of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Cable One, Inc..
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Chair of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On June 3, 2025, Cable One, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Julia M. Laulis will be retiring as Chair of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), President, and Chief Executive Officer on the earlier of December 31, 2025 or the date her successor commences employment as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (as applicable, the “Retirement Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632127/000095015725000455/0000950157-25-000455-index.htm

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