---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-116837"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFNC"
cik: "0000090498"
company_name: "SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T07:04:54.690304+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Simmons First National shareholders elect 14 directors, approve say-on-pay and stock plan at annual meeting

## Summary
- Board size fixed at 14 directors with 105.5M votes for, 2.2M against.
- All 14 directors elected; votes for ranged from 80.0M (Cosse) to 88.0M (Stackhouse).
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved: 84.4M for, 6.3M against.
- Ratification of auditor FORVIS LLP passed with 104.6M for, 3.1M against.
- 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan approved: 88.4M for, 2.4M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-116837
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFNC
- cik: 0000090498
- company_name: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+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/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/d813409d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-116837.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP shareholders approved Election of fourteen directors at the 2024-04-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-23
  source text: (2) election of fourteen directors; (3) adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers of the Corporation; (4) ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of the accounting firm FORVIS, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2024; and (5) approval of the Simmons First National Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP shareholders approved Adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers at the 2024-04-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-23
  source text: Adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of FORVIS, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-04-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-23
  source text: Ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of FORVIS, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP shareholders approved Fix the number of directors at fourteen at the 2024-04-23 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-23
  source text: The following table summarizes the required analysis of the voting by security holders at the Meeting: Voting of Shares Action For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes Fix the number of directors at fourteen 105,474,289 2,180,139 332,542 0 Election of Directors For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes Marty D.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP shareholders approved Approval of the Simmons First National Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan at the 2024-04-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-23
  source text: Approval of the Simmons First National Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000119312524116837/0001193125-24-116837-index.htm

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