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accession: "0001043509-23-000001"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SAH"
cik: "0001043509"
company_name: "SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T15:26:42.687696+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonic Automotive sets 2023 bonus and RSU grants for CEO, President, CFO

## Summary
- Compensation Committee set 2023 cash bonus criteria: adjusted EPS and customer satisfaction goals.
- CEO David Bruton Smith granted 70,348 performance-based RSUs; President Jeff Dyke 39,972; CFO Heath R. Byrd 31,154.
- RSUs vest in three tranches (25% Mar 2024, 30% Feb 2025, 45% Feb 2026) subject to employment and 2023 adjusted EPS.
- Cash bonuses determined after 2023 performance evaluation, payable by March 15, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001043509-23-000001
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SAH
- cik: 0001043509
- company_name: SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000104350923000001/0001043509-23-000001-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000104350923000001/sah-20230208.htm

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