---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-009053"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOV"
cik: "0000357294"
company_name: "HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T09:20:43.027898+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hovnanian stockholders approve 2020 stock incentive plan amendment and elect directors at annual meeting

## Summary
- Stockholders approved Third Amended and Restated 2020 Stock Incentive Plan, increasing share reserve by 300,000 shares to 1,715,000.
- All eight director nominees elected with majority support; A. Hovnanian received 9,102,136 votes for.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor passed with 11,287,463 votes for.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation passed (9,683,039 votes for).
- Amendment to Stockholder Rights Plan approved (9,776,497 votes for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-009053
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOV
- cik: 0000357294
- company_name: HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357294/000143774924009053/0001437749-24-009053-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357294/000143774924009053/hov20240321_8k.htm

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