---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171520-23-000281"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOTK"
cik: "0000806172"
company_name: "SONO TEK CORP"
filed_at: "2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:48:00.180213+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sono-Tek shareholders elect four directors, approve auditor, executive pay, and 2023 equity plan at annual meeting

## Summary
- Elected four directors to two-year terms: Coccio (6,567,358 for), Riemer (5,300,886), Harshbarger (6,623,449), Strasburg (5,317,489).
- Ratified Marcum LLP as auditor for FY ending Feb 29, 2024: 12,175,584 for, 95,894 against.
- Approved, on non-binding advisory basis, executive compensation: 6,364,295 for, 369,088 against.
- Approved 2023 Stock Incentive Plan: 6,132,376 for, 615,335 against, 5,399,377 broker non-votes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171520-23-000281
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOTK
- cik: 0000806172
- company_name: SONO TEK CORP
- filed_at: 2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/0001171520-23-000281-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/eps10963.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SONO TEK CORP shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers at the 2023-08-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-24
  source text: The shareholders approved, in a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/0001171520-23-000281-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SONO TEK CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of Marcum, LLP, as the Company’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending February 29, 2024 at the 2023-08-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-24
  source text: The shareholders ratified by the affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast on the proposal, the appointment of Marcum, LLP, as the Company’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending February 29, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/0001171520-23-000281-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SONO TEK CORP shareholders approved Election of four nominees to the Board of Directors at the 2023-08-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-24
  source text: The shareholders elected, by a plurality of the votes cast, four nominees to the Board of Directors to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2025 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/0001171520-23-000281-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SONO TEK CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the approval of the Company’s 2023 Stock Incentive Plan at the 2023-08-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-24
  source text: The shareholders ratified by the affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast on the proposal, the approval of the Company’s 2023 Stock Incentive Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152023000281/0001171520-23-000281-index.htm

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