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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-243779"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWBI"
cik: "0001092796"
company_name: "SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-09-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T09:55:15.605938+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smith & Wesson shareholders elect all directors, approve say-on-pay, reject two proposals

## Summary
- All 8 director nominees elected; highest vote: Mark P. Smith with 21.5M for, lowest: John B. Furman with 15.4M for.
- Say-on-pay approved with 20.4M for, 1.1M against, 264K abstentions.
- 2022 Incentive Stock Plan approved with 20.4M for, 1.2M against.
- Stockholder proposal for human rights policy rejected (9.0M for vs 12.6M against); simple majority proposal also rejected.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-243779
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWBI
- cik: 0001092796
- company_name: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-09-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312522243779/0001193125-22-243779-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312522243779/d399734d8k.htm

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