---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-113813"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DOV"
cik: "0000029905"
company_name: "DOVER Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T14:56:25.502865+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dover shareholders re-elect nine directors, reject independent chair proposal

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with majority support; broker non-votes ~9.7M shares.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor: 116.3M for, 6.0M against.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote approved: 103.4M for, 9.1M against (excl. broker non-votes).
- Shareholder proposal for independent board chair rejected: 71.3M against, 41.2M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-113813
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DOV
- cik: 0000029905
- company_name: DOVER Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29905/000119312525113813/0001193125-25-113813-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29905/000119312525113813/d86044d8k.htm

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