---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-288996"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHR"
cik: "0000820318"
company_name: "COHERENT CORP."
filed_at: "2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T16:15:26.029364+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coherent Corp. declares $3/shr dividend on Series A Preferred; shareholders reelect four directors

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Enrico Digirolamo, David Motley, Lisa Neal-Graves, Shaker Sadasivam as Class Two directors to serve until 2025.
- Advisory vote on FY2022 executive compensation approved with 125.5M for, 5.9M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2023 approved with 142.8M for.
- Board declared quarterly dividend of $3.00/share on Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock (IIVIP), payable Jan 1, 2023 to holders of record Dec 15, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-288996
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHR
- cik: 0000820318
- company_name: COHERENT CORP.
- filed_at: 2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312522288996/0001193125-22-288996-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312522288996/d384980d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation at the 2022-11-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2022-11-16
  source text: the Company’s shareholders approved (on a non-binding advisory basis) the Company’s executive compensation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312522288996/0001193125-22-288996-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor at the 2022-11-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2022-11-16
  source text: the Company’s shareholders ratified the selection by the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors of Ernst & Young LLP
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312522288996/0001193125-22-288996-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Election of Class Two Directors at the 2022-11-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2022-11-16
  source text: the Company’s shareholders elected Enrico Digirolamo, David L. Motley, Lisa Neal-Graves and Shaker Sadasivam as Class Two Directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312522288996/0001193125-22-288996-index.htm

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