---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-064870"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMAT"
cik: "0000006951"
company_name: "APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE"
filed_at: "2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T00:10:00.746647+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Materials annual meeting elects 10 directors, approves say-on-pay, rejects two shareholder proposals

## Summary
- All ten director nominees elected, including CEO Gary Dickerson and Aart de Geus.
- Advisory vote on NEO compensation for FY2023 passed with ~572M for, ~53M against.
- KPMG LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2024 with ~688M votes in favor.
- Shareholder proposal on lobbying report defeated (~104M for, ~516M against).
- Shareholder proposal on pay equity reporting also defeated (~133M for, ~490M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-064870
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMAT
- cik: 0000006951
- company_name: APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE
- filed_at: 2024-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/d764022d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for Fiscal Year 2024 at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024 was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE shareholders rejected Shareholder Proposal Regarding Pay Equity Reporting at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The shareholder proposal requesting that the Company report on quantitative median and adjusted pay gaps across race and gender was not approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE shareholders rejected Shareholder Proposal Regarding Lobbying Report at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The shareholder proposal requesting that the Company prepare a report disclosing Company policy and procedures governing lobbying and payments by the Company used for lobbying was not approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE shareholders approved Approval, on an Advisory Basis, of the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers for Fiscal Year 2023 at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting, was approved on an advisory basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: Each of the ten nominees was elected to serve as a director for a one-year term and until he or she is succeeded by another qualified director who has been elected, or, if earlier, until his or her death, resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6951/000119312524064870/0001193125-24-064870-index.htm

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