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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-141717"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000004447"
company_name: "HESS CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T17:36:51.807433+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hess Corp stockholders elect all 12 directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify EY auditor

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected; votes for ranged from 223.6M to 241.2M shares.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 184.5M for (75.8%), 58.9M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2024 approved with 248.8M for (95.7%).
- Meeting held May 15, 2024; broker non-votes totaled 16.6M shares on director and say-on-pay proposals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-141717
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000004447
- company_name: HESS CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000119312524141717/0001193125-24-141717-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000119312524141717/d805834d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-141717.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 2eed3699a326776880be8eb1d37445f1f280c1d0
  claim: HESS CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Registered Public Accountants at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: The proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 was approved by the vote set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000119312524141717/0001193125-24-141717-index.htm
- claim_id: 438e1d8d852691c0c170cee5295ee8b384fea2c9
  claim: HESS CORP shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: The proposal to approve (on an advisory basis) the compensation of the named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s 2024 definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 5, 2024, was approved by the vote set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000119312524141717/0001193125-24-141717-index.htm
- claim_id: d9050ce4fbd2d8b3cae7dc5a89a85fd0c0bccc33
  claim: HESS CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Each of the following twelve director nominees was elected as a director for the ensuing one-year term or until his or her respective successor is elected or appointed, by the vote set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4447/000119312524141717/0001193125-24-141717-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.