---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-122603"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ULTA"
cik: "0001403568"
company_name: "Ulta Beauty, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:43:16.072148+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ulta Beauty adopts Executive Severance Plan providing 2x salary + bonus on qualifying termination

## Summary
- Plan covers executive officers; provides 2x base salary paid bi-weekly over 24 months.
- One-time bonus equal to lower of target or actual bonus for fiscal year of termination.
- Company-paid COBRA premiums for up to 12 months following termination.
- Restrictive covenant period extended to 24 months from 12 months under existing CIPCA.
- Plan supersedes prior severance arrangements; CIC Plan remains separate for change-in-control terminations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-122603
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ULTA
- cik: 0001403568
- company_name: Ulta Beauty, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403568/000110465925122603/0001104659-25-122603-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403568/000110465925122603/ulta-20251215x8k.htm

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