---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-015348"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQBK"
cik: "0001227500"
company_name: "EQUITY BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T08:21:21.760849+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equity Bancshares annual meeting results: directors elected, say-on-pay, auditor ratified

## Summary
- Elected Class III directors Borck (6.0M for, 3.7M against), Gaeddert (5.8M for, 3.9M against), Hutton (7.3M for, 2.4M against).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 7.2M for, 2.4M against, 37k abstain.
- Ratified Crowe LLP as independent auditor for 2023: 12.0M for, 7.7k against, 120k abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-015348
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQBK
- cik: 0001227500
- company_name: EQUITY BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000095017023015348/0000950170-23-015348-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000095017023015348/eqbk-20230425.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  EQUITY BANCSHARES INC shareholders approved Election of Class III Directors at the 2023-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-25
  source text: The stockholders of the Company elected the individuals listed below to serve as Class III members of the Company’s Board of Directors until the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders by the votes set forth in the table below: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Vote Leon H. Borck 5,990,177 3,659,899 24,224 2,429,898 Gregory L. Gaeddert 5,761,559 3,891,391 21,350 2,429,898 Benjamen M. Hutton 7,307,000 2,350,583 16,717 2,429,898
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000095017023015348/0000950170-23-015348-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EQUITY BANCSHARES INC shareholders approved Ratification of Crowe LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 at the 2023-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-25
  source text: The stockholders of the Company ratified the appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023, by the votes set forth in the table below: For Against Abstain 11,976,121 7,737 120,340
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000095017023015348/0000950170-23-015348-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EQUITY BANCSHARES INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on executive compensation at the 2023-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-25
  source text: The stockholders of the Company approved, in a non-binding, advisory vote, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, by the votes set forth in the table below: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Vote 7,202,422 2,434,476 37,402 2,429,898
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000095017023015348/0000950170-23-015348-index.htm

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