---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001050441-24-000088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGBN"
cik: "0001050441"
company_name: "EAGLE BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T14:18:39.529351+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eagle Bancorp shareholders elect all nine director nominees, ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with strong support; highest vote total for Benjamin Soto (20.9M for).
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as auditor approved with 23.88M votes for (99.6% of votes cast).
- Non-binding say-on-pay passed with 19.76M votes for (approx 94% of votes cast excluding broker non-votes).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001050441-24-000088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGBN
- cik: 0001050441
- company_name: EAGLE BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000088/0001050441-24-000088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000088/gnw-20240516.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000088
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000088.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-24-000088.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  EAGLE BANCORP INC shareholders approved Ratifying the appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-16
  source text: The number of votes cast for, against, withheld and broker non-votes cast on the ratification of the appointment of Crowe LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2024 is as set forth below: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 23,883,762 50,349 35,869 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000088/0001050441-24-000088-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EAGLE BANCORP INC shareholders approved Election of nine directors at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-16
  source text: On May 16, 2024, Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") for the purpose of: 1. electing nine (9) directors to serve until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000088/0001050441-24-000088-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EAGLE BANCORP INC shareholders approved Approving a non-binding, advisory resolution approving the compensation of the Company's named executive officers at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-16
  source text: The number of votes cast for, against, withheld and broker non-votes cast on the non-binding, advisory resolution approving the compensation of the Company's named executive officers is as set forth below: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 19,758,583 1,160,954 142,036 2,908,407
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044124000088/0001050441-24-000088-index.htm

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