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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001333986-25-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQH"
cik: "0001333986"
company_name: "Equitable Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T07:40:06.505210+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EQH stockholders approve 14.5M share increase to equity plan and governance amendments

## Summary
- Stockholders approved increase in shares reserved under 2019 Omnibus Incentive Plan by 14.5M to 41.7M.
- Certificate of incorporation amended to limit officer liability and grant stockholders right to call special meeting.
- All 10 director nominees elected; say-on-pay advisory vote approved (94% for); future say-on-pay votes set for every year.
- Stockholder proposal for special meeting right defeated with 73% against.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor for fiscal 2025 approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001333986-25-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQH
- cik: 0001333986
- company_name: Equitable Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1333986/000133398625000023/0001333986-25-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1333986/000133398625000023/axaeq-20250521.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Equitable Holdings, Inc.: Amended certificate of incorporation and bylaws to grant stockholders right to call a special meeting (effective 2025-05-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-28
  source text: Proposal 7: The Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws to create a stockholder right to call a special meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1333986/000133398625000023/0001333986-25-000023-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Equitable Holdings, Inc.: Amended certificate of incorporation to limit liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-05-28).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-28
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders of the Company voted to approve amendments to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1333986/000133398625000023/0001333986-25-000023-index.htm

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