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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-071735"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NVAX"
cik: "0001000694"
company_name: "NOVAVAX INC"
filed_at: "2024-06-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:13:59.448698+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novavax stockholders approve director elections, advisory pay, and equity plan share increases

## Summary
- Stockholders elected Class II directors Richard Douglas, Margaret McGlynn, and David Mott with majorities (approx. 25.5M, 22.9M, 23.1M For).
- Advisory vote on 2023 executive compensation passed: 24.2M For, 8.7M Against, 11.0M Abstain.
- Amended 2015 Stock Incentive Plan approved (22.4M For, 20.9M Against), adding 6.5M shares to the pool.
- Amended 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan approved (23.2M For, 10.0M Abstain), adding 1M shares with annual increase formula.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2024 passed overwhelmingly (69.0M For).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-071735
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NVAX
- cik: 0001000694
- company_name: NOVAVAX INC
- filed_at: 2024-06-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000110465924071735/0001104659-24-071735-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000110465924071735/tm2417354d1_8k.htm

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