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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-134887"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SF"
cik: "0000720672"
company_name: "STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:32:18.397665+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stifel Financial shareholders elect directors, approve executive compensation, ratify KPMG as auditor

## Summary
- All eleven director nominees elected; Maura Markus received the most withhold votes at 8.7M.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 85.4M for, 2.9M against, 190k abstentions (96.7% of votes cast).
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor for 2025 passed with 97.6M for, 132k against, 85k abstentions.
- Broker non-votes of 9.3M shares on director election and say-on-pay proposals.
- 97.8M of 103.0M outstanding shares represented at the meeting, forming a quorum.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-134887
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SF
- cik: 0000720672
- company_name: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720672/000119312525134887/0001193125-25-134887-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720672/000119312525134887/d84298d8k.htm

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