---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001165002-23-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHG"
cik: "0001165002"
company_name: "WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T02:44:52.603178+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Westwood Holdings shareholders approve 350K-share increase to stock incentive plan

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected; votes ranged from 4.4M to 5.2M for each.
- Stockholders ratified BDO USA as independent auditor for 2023 with 7.0M for, 1.6K against.
- Ninth Amended Stock Incentive Plan approved (3.98M for, 2.39M against, 61K abstain).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 4.36M for; frequency of future votes set at 1 year (5.17M votes).
- Plan amendment added 350,000 shares to the authorized pool under the incentive plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001165002-23-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHG
- cik: 0001165002
- company_name: WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/whg-20230426.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-04-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-26
  source text: The stockholders elected the directors listed below to hold office until the next annual meeting and until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC shareholders approved Frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation at the 2023-04-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-26
  source text: The stockholders voted, on a non-binding, advisory basis, on the frequency of future advisory votes on the Company's executive compensation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on executive compensation at the 2023-04-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-26
  source text: The stockholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the Company's executive compensation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC shareholders approved Ratification of Independent Auditors at the 2023-04-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-26
  source text: The stockholders ratified BDO USA, LLP as the Company’s independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  WESTWOOD HOLDINGS GROUP INC shareholders approved Approval of Ninth Amended and Restated Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan at the 2023-04-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-26
  source text: The stockholders approved the Ninth Amended and Restated Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165002/000116500223000051/0001165002-23-000051-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.