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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-276082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHR"
cik: "0000820318"
company_name: "COHERENT CORP."
filed_at: "2023-11-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T05:55:35.099249+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders approve 3.9M share increase for Omnibus Incentive Plan and ESPP at annual meeting

## Summary
- Omnibus Incentive Plan amended to add 3,900,000 shares; plan term extended to 2033.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan amended to increase share reserve (number not disclosed).
- Re-elected directors Corasanti, Hatter, Skaggs, Vij with 91-110M votes each.
- Say-on-pay approved (104.6M for, 8.3M against); one-year frequency adopted.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-276082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHR
- cik: 0000820318
- company_name: COHERENT CORP.
- filed_at: 2023-11-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/d319673d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote to approve the Company's executive compensation of named executive officers in fiscal year 2023.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders approved (on a non-binding advisory basis) the Company's executive compensation of named executive officers in the Company's fiscal year 2023, as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement ("Proposal 2").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Approval of amendment and restatement of the 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders approved the amendment and restatement of the 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement ("Proposal 5").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Approval of amendment and restatement of the 2018 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders approved the amendment and restatement of the 2018 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement ("Proposal 4").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 at the 2024-06-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-06-30
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders ratified the selection by the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the Company's fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 ("Proposal 6").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote on the frequency of future non-binding advisory shareholder votes on executive compensation.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders approved (on a non-binding advisory basis) one year as the frequency of future non-binding advisory shareholder votes on the compensation paid to our named executive officers, as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement ("Proposal 3").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COHERENT CORP. shareholders approved Election of Joseph J. Corasanti, Patricia Hatter, Stephan A. Skaggs and Sandeep Vij as Class Three Directors.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders elected Joseph J. Corasanti, Patricia Hatter, Stephan A. Skaggs and Sandeep Vij as Class Three Directors to serve until the Company's 2026 annual meeting of shareholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified ("Proposal 1").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/820318/000119312523276082/0001193125-23-276082-index.htm

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