---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-057297"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLUG"
cik: "0001093691"
company_name: "PLUG POWER INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T18:02:56.454715+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Plug Power issues special preferred share to CEO for reverse stock split vote at July 3 meeting

## Summary
- Issued one share of Series F Mirroring Preferred Stock to CEO Andrew J. Marsh for $1,000.
- The share carries 45 billion votes, mirroring common stock vote proportion on reverse split proposal.
- Reverse stock split proposal will be voted on at annual meeting on July 3, 2025.
- The special share is non-convertible, has no other voting rights, and will be redeemed for $1,000 after the vote.
- Purpose is to secure the required stockholder vote for the reverse split without overriding common shareholder preference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-057297
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLUG
- cik: 0001093691
- company_name: PLUG POWER INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465925057297/0001104659-25-057297-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465925057297/tm2517253d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-057297.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PLUG POWER INC: Filed Certificate of Designation of Series F Mirroring Preferred Stock to create a new class of preferred stock with voting rights exclusively on a reverse stock split proposal (effective 2025-06-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-05
  source text: On June 5, 2025, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation of the Series F Mirroring Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to create a new class of Series F Mirroring Preferred Stock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465925057297/0001104659-25-057297-index.htm

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