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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-048196"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMCB"
cik: "0001085913"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP"
filed_at: "2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T10:54:52.395329+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmers & Merchants shareholders approve 2025 Restricted Stock Retirement Plan; old plans terminated

## Summary
- Shareholders approved 2025 Restricted Stock Retirement Plan (418,847 for, 19,658 against, 6,552 abstain).
- Nonqualified Retirement Plans terminated effective Nov 29, 2024; account balances to be liquidated within 12-24 months.
- 2025 Plan effective Jan 1, 2025; initial reserve of 80,000 shares with annual 2.5% evergreen until 2035.
- Company expects no material change in annual costs from previously terminated nonqualified plans.
- Outside director annual award limit set at $450,000 per 12-month period.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-048196
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMCB
- cik: 0001085913
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP
- filed_at: 2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036124048196/0001140361-24-048196-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036124048196/ef20039360_8k.htm

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