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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-084867"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAKT"
cik: "0000915779"
company_name: "DAKTRONICS INC /SD/"
filed_at: "2025-04-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T11:22:19.910181+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Daktronics shareholders approve reincorporation to Delaware; effective April 17, 2025

## Summary
- Shareholders approved reincorporation to Delaware with 99.3% vote (40,314,614 for, 254,327 against), effective April 17, 2025.
- Corporate governance now under Delaware law; new certificate and bylaws eliminate cumulative voting and require majority voting in uncontested elections.
- Proxy access adopted for qualifying long-term stockholders; all outstanding shares automatically converted to Delaware common stock.
- Employee benefit plans and equity awards converted to Delaware equivalents on same terms; trading symbol DAKT unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-084867
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAKT
- cik: 0000915779
- company_name: DAKTRONICS INC /SD/
- filed_at: 2025-04-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525084867/0001193125-25-084867-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525084867/d894627d8k.htm

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