---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001043509-25-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SAH"
cik: "0001043509"
company_name: "SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T06:37:26.774534+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonic Automotive shareholders elect all nine directors, ratify Grant Thornton, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected; David Bruton Smith received 128.5M votes for and 10.5M against.
- Appointment of Grant Thornton as independent auditor ratified with 141.3M votes for, only 1,472 against.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation for 2024 approved: 133.6M for, 5.4M against.
- Meeting held April 23, 2025; all proposals passed with substantial support.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001043509-25-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SAH
- cik: 0001043509
- company_name: SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000104350925000015/0001043509-25-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043509/000104350925000015/sah-20250423.htm

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