secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AMERICAS CARMART INC (CRMT)
CIK:        0000799850
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-06-05T21:30:18+00:00
Accession:  0001171843-26-003947
Event type: debt
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 1.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

America's Car-Mart gets lender forbearance through June 12; awards $2.6M retention cash to execs
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- Lender forbearance through June 12, 2026; anticipated defaults on minimum liquidity and collateral coverage covenants.
- CEO Douglas Campbell receives $1.2M cash retention award and 190,600 stock options (60,307 initial, 130,293 contingent).
- CFO Jonathan Collins gets $563,000 cash retention and 45,380 options; COO $531,000/50,660; CAO $300,000/16,336.
- Options split: Initial Options from current pool; Contingent Options require shareholder approval at Sept 2026 annual meeting.
- Special Committee evaluating strategic alternatives including recapitalization; Houlihan Lokey and FTI Consulting retained.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799850/000117184326003947/0001171843-26-003947-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799850/000117184326003947/f8k_060526.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-26-003947

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