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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001064728-26-000027"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BTU"
cik: "0001064728"
company_name: "PEABODY ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T21:22:38.240375+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peabody Energy holds 2026 annual meeting; shareholders approve incentive plan, chair's resignation rejected

## Summary
- Shareholders elected ten directors, approved 2026 Incentive Plan, and ratified Ernst & Young as auditor.
- Board Chair Bob Malone resigned effective 2027 annual meeting due to age 75; board rejected resignation, allowing him to serve one more year.
- Board approved amendments to Governance Guidelines creating Vice Chair role effective after 2027 annual meeting.
- All four proposals passed; broker non-votes of ~15.9M shares on director election, advisory vote, and incentive plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001064728-26-000027
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BTU
- cik: 0001064728
- company_name: PEABODY ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472826000027/0001064728-26-000027-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472826000027/btu-20260507.htm

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