---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001037868-22-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AME"
cik: "0001037868"
company_name: "AMETEK INC/"
filed_at: "2022-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T09:00:37.296349+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AMETEK boosts dividend 10% to $0.22/share, appoints Dean Seavers to board

## Summary
- Quarterly dividend raised 10% to $0.22 per share from $0.20, payable March 31, 2022 to holders of record March 10, 2022.
- New indicated annual dividend rate is $0.88 per share.
- Dean Seavers appointed to Board of Directors effective February 24, 2022; former President and Executive Director of National Grid.
- Seavers will serve as independent Class I director until 2022 annual meeting, receiving pro-rata director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001037868-22-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AME
- cik: 0001037868
- company_name: AMETEK INC/
- filed_at: 2022-02-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037868/000103786822000006/0001037868-22-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037868/000103786822000006/ame-20220210.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001037868-22-000006
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001037868-22-000006.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001037868-22-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dean Seavers was appointed as Director at AMETEK INC/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Dean Seavers was appointed to the Board of Directors of AMETEK, Inc., or the “Company” effective February 24, 2022, to serve as a Class I Director until the 2022 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037868/000103786822000006/0001037868-22-000006-index.htm

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