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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-008342"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWX"
cik: "0001692115"
company_name: "Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T15:21:12.796187+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southwest Gas eliminates Series A Preferred stock after poison pill expiry

## Summary
- Filed Certificate of Elimination on Jan 13, 2023 to remove Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from charter.
- Rights Agreement (poison pill) expired Oct 9, 2022; associated purchase rights are no longer outstanding.
- Move is a routine charter cleanup following the expiration of the shareholder rights plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-008342
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWX
- cik: 0001692115
- company_name: Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692115/000119312523008342/0001193125-23-008342-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692115/000119312523008342/d425892d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-008342.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.: Filed Certificate of Elimination to remove the Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Certificate of Incorporation, effective upon filing (effective 2023-01-13).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-13
  source text: On January 13, 2023, the Company filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a Certificate of Elimination (the “Certificate of Elimination”), which, effective upon filing, eliminated from the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation the Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 10, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692115/000119312523008342/0001193125-23-008342-index.htm

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