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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-182041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWK"
cik: "0000093556"
company_name: "STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC."
filed_at: "2026-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T04:09:23.630298+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stanley Black & Decker shareholders approve 7.75M-share plan amendment, reject independent chair

## Summary
- Approved Amended and Restated 2024 Omnibus Award Plan with 7,750,000 additional shares and extended term.
- All 11 director nominees elected; say-on-pay passed with ~97% support.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for fiscal 2026.
- Shareholder proposal for independent board chairman rejected (10.5M for, 114.5M against).
- Fungible ratio for post-amendment awards set at 2.71; one-year minimum vesting added.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-182041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWK
- cik: 0000093556
- company_name: STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312526182041/0001193125-26-182041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312526182041/d930480d8k.htm

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