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accession: "0001193125-25-206160"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWBI"
cik: "0001092796"
company_name: "SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:19:57.273268+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
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# Smith & Wesson annual meeting results: all directors elected, say-on-pay and KPMG ratified

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected with strong majorities (e.g., Anita D. Britt: 17.5M for, 0.66M withheld).
- Say-on-pay proposal approved: 16.5M for, 1.5M against, 0.2M abstentions.
- Ratification of KPMG as auditor for FY2026 passed: 29.7M for, 0.7M against, 0.4M abstentions.
- Meeting held September 15, 2025; results filed September 17, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-206160
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWBI
- cik: 0001092796
- company_name: SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312525206160/0001193125-25-206160-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092796/000119312525206160/d831036d8k.htm

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