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accession: "0001193125-25-197278"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VSAT"
cik: "0000797721"
company_name: "VIASAT INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:10:27.578125+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Viasat shareholders approve equity plan amendment adding 6.41M shares, ESPP increase of 5M shares

## Summary
- Shareholders approved restated 1996 Equity Plan: adds 6.41M shares plus potential additional shares from outstanding awards.
- Incentive stock option maximum raised to 100M shares; option period extended to 2035; fungible counting ratio removed.
- ESPP amended to increase authorized shares by 5M to 16.95M total; both plans effective Sept. 4, 2025.
- Equity plan approval vote: 77.5M for vs 21.9M against; ESPP approval: 99.3M for vs 0.3M against.
- Directors Richard Baldridge and Sean Pak re-elected; advisory say-on-pay vote passed with 94.4M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-197278
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VSAT
- cik: 0000797721
- company_name: VIASAT INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312525197278/0001193125-25-197278-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000119312525197278/d48904d8k.htm

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