---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-001258"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ESP"
cik: "0000033533"
company_name: "ESPEY MFG & ELECTRONICS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:09:51.436907+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Espey Mfg. appoints WithumSmith+Brown as new auditor for FY2026

## Summary
- Engaged WithumSmith+Brown, PC effective September 30, 2025 to audit FY2026 financial statements.
- Successor to Freed Maxick, P.C. which joined Withum on August 1, 2025.
- No reported disagreement with prior auditor; change stems from practice combination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-001258
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ESP
- cik: 0000033533
- company_name: ESPEY MFG & ELECTRONICS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33533/000117494725001258/0001174947-25-001258-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33533/000117494725001258/form8k-34742_esp.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-001258
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-001258.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-001258.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 1120eed02011ac661bf70ef3fcd26ab479b7d115
  claim: ESPEY MFG & ELECTRONICS CORP engaged WithumSmith+Brown, PC as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: On September 30, 2025, the Company engaged WithumSmith+Brown, PC (“Withum”) to audit the Company’s financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33533/000117494725001258/0001174947-25-001258-index.htm

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