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Issuer:     STEPAN CO (SCL)
CIK:        0000094049
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-04-30T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-194098
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Stepan stockholders elect all three director nominees; approve say-on-pay and auditor ratification
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- Directors Delgado, Painter, and Stepan each elected with over 17.7M votes for.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation passed: 17.0M for, 1.2M against.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as 2026 auditor approved with 19.63M for (98.5% of votes cast).
- Quorum of 19,939,848 shares (approx. 73% of outstanding) present at the annual meeting.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312526194098/0001193125-26-194098-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000119312526194098/scl-20260428.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-194098

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