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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-066518"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBT"
cik: "0000016040"
company_name: "CABOT CORP"
filed_at: "2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T22:17:50.415042+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cabot Corp annual meeting results: all proposals approved by shareholders

## Summary
- Directors Cynthia Arnold, Douglas Del Grosso, Christine Yan elected to three-year terms expiring 2027.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 47.9M for, 886K against, 144.8K abstentions.
- Cabot Corporation 2024 Non-Employee Director Plan approved: 47.2M for, 1.57M against.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor for FY2024: 49.0M for, 1.74M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-066518
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBT
- cik: 0000016040
- company_name: CABOT CORP
- filed_at: 2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/0001193125-24-066518-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/d777133d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CABOT CORP shareholders approved Approval of Cabot Corporation 2024 Non-Employee Director Plan at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved the Cabot Corporation 2024 Non-Employee Director Plan by the votes set forth in the table below: For: 47,237,355 Against: 1,574,009 Abstain: 100,591 Broker Non-Votes: 1,886,787
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/0001193125-24-066518-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CABOT CORP shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 by the votes set forth in the table below: For: 48,997,600 Against: 1,738,014 Abstain: 63,128
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/0001193125-24-066518-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CABOT CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers by the votes set forth in the table below: For: 47,881,120 Against: 886,045 Abstain: 144,790 Broker Non-Votes: 1,886,787
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/0001193125-24-066518-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CABOT CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors to class whose term expires in 2027 at the 2024-03-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-03-07
  source text: All of the Board’s nominees for director were elected to the class of directors whose term expires in 2027 by the votes set forth in the table below: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes Cynthia A. Arnold 48,329,049 539,635 43,271 1,886,787 Douglas G. Del Grosso 48,525,534 343,163 43,258 1,886,787 Christine Y. Yan 48,212,692 657,213 42,050 1,886,787
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312524066518/0001193125-24-066518-index.htm

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