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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-202138"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTGC"
cik: "0001280784"
company_name: "Hercules Capital, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:48:08.746336+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hercules Capital shareholders approve below-NAV share issuance at reconvened annual meeting

## Summary
- Proposal 3 passed: 62.3M for, 14.9M against, 4.9M abstain.
- Authorization allows sale of common stock below NAV per share under set conditions.
- Meeting originally held June 20, 2024; adjourned to August 15, 2024 for this vote.
- As of record date (April 19, 2024), 162.2M common shares outstanding and entitled to vote.
- Approval gives HTGC flexibility for future equity raises at a discount to NAV.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-202138
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTGC
- cik: 0001280784
- company_name: Hercules Capital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312524202138/0001193125-24-202138-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312524202138/d880624d8k.htm

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