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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-017742"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BMY"
cik: "0000014272"
company_name: "BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T07:32:44.289660+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BMY shareholders elect all 11 directors, approve compensation, at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; votes 'for' ranged from 1.49B to 1.53B.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 1.44B for, 92M against.
- Ratification of Deloitte as auditor approved: 1.72B for, 59M against.
- Shareholder proposal on corporate financial sustainability defeated: 17.6M for, 1.51B against.
- Shareholder proposal to cease DEI efforts defeated: 26.5M for, 1.50B against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-017742
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BMY
- cik: 0000014272
- company_name: BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14272/000114036125017742/0001140361-25-017742-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14272/000114036125017742/ef20048602_8k.htm

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