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accession: "0000950170-25-063136"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCL"
cik: "0000094049"
company_name: "STEPAN CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T21:46:23.145856+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stockholders approve amended 2022 equity plan, adding 500K authorized shares

## Summary
- Proposal 4 approved: amendment of 2022 Equity Incentive Plan; adds 500K shares for total 1M authorized.
- Elected directors Lorinda A. Burgess and Luis E. Rojo to three-year terms (each >97% support).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 17.4M for vs 336K against; broker non-votes 1.98M.
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for fiscal 2025 (19.5M for).
- Plan effective April 29, 2025; includes minimum vesting of one year except for limited exceptions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-063136
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCL
- cik: 0000094049
- company_name: STEPAN CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000095017025063136/0000950170-25-063136-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000095017025063136/scl-20250505.htm

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