---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-058042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HWC"
cik: "0000750577"
company_name: "HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T07:33:18.013451+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders elect all six directors, approve executive compensation, LTIP amendment, and auditor ratification

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected; each received over 68.2M votes for, with 6.38M broker non-votes.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 68.1M for, 1.9M against.
- Amendment to 2020 LTIP increasing authorized shares by 1.3M approved: 66.7M for, 3.4M against.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as 2025 independent auditor approved: 75.6M for, 917k withheld.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-058042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HWC
- cik: 0000750577
- company_name: HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000095017025058042/0000950170-25-058042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000095017025058042/hwc-20250423.htm

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