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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-22-001461"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLFD"
cik: "0000796505"
company_name: "Clearfield, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T03:55:28.764371+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Annual meeting results: all eight director nominees elected, say-on-pay and auditor ratified

## Summary
- Shareholders elected all eight board nominees, including Walter L. Jones Jr. and Carol A. Wirsbinski.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 7.84M for, 750k against, 131k abstain.
- Baker Tilly US LLP ratified as auditor for FY 2022 with 10.76M for, 8.8k against, 52.5k abstain.
- Board committees reconstituted; Jones and Wirsbinski added to Audit and Compensation Committees respectively.
- 78.64% of outstanding shares (10.82M of 13.75M) were present at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-22-001461
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLFD
- cik: 0000796505
- company_name: Clearfield, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796505/000117184322001461/0001171843-22-001461-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796505/000117184322001461/f8k_022822.htm

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