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accession: "0001193125-23-226828"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001483510"
company_name: "EXPRESS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-09-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T00:28:37.161326+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Express, Inc. executes 1-for-20 reverse stock split, reduces authorized shares to 25M

## Summary
- Effective August 30, 2023, every 20 outstanding shares combined into 1 share.
- Authorized common stock reduced from 500M to 25M shares.
- Fractional shares will be paid in cash (without interest) to stockholders of record.
- Reverse split intended to meet NYSE minimum bid price requirement (not stated in filing).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-226828
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001483510
- company_name: EXPRESS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-09-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483510/000119312523226828/0001193125-23-226828-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483510/000119312523226828/d550419d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-226828.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  EXPRESS, INC.: 1-for-20 reverse stock split and reduction of authorized shares from 500,000,000 to 25,000,000 (effective 2023-08-30).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-30
  source text: On August 30, 2023, Express, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Amendment (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect a 1-for-20 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483510/000119312523226828/0001193125-23-226828-index.htm

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