---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-016111"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYD"
cik: "0000906553"
company_name: "BOYD GAMING CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T03:05:14.283905+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Boyd Gaming adds $500M to buyback, declares $0.17 dividend

## Summary
- Board authorized additional $500M share repurchase, total authority ~$721M as of March 31, 2024.
- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share declared, payable July 15, 2024 to holders of record June 15, 2024.
- All eight director nominees elected at May 9 annual meeting; stockholder smokefree proposal defeated.
- Ratification of Deloitte as auditor and advisory approval of executive compensation passed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-016111
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYD
- cik: 0000906553
- company_name: BOYD GAMING CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/0001437749-24-016111-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/bgc20240502_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Proposal 2. Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Votes For Votes Against Abstain 90,447,173 1,270,032 147,532 The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/0001437749-24-016111-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders rejected Report on Smokefree Policy at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Proposal 4. Report on Smokefree Policy. Votes For Votes Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 18,522,449 63,573,839 1,442,243 8,326,206 The stockholder proposal regarding the commissioning of a report on the effects of a company-wide non-smoking policy was not approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/0001437749-24-016111-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Proposal 1. Election of Directors. Votes For Votes Withheld Broker Non-Votes Marianne Boyd Johnson 78,968,116 4,570,415 8,326,206 John R. Bailey 70,913,980 12,624,551 8,326,206 William R. Boyd 75,775,599 7,762,932 8,326,206 Keith E. Smith 81,834,589 1,703,942 8,326,206 Christine J. Spadafor 54,248,223 29,290,308 8,326,206 A. Randall Thoman 83,063,935 474,596 8,326,206 Peter M. Thomas 73,247,678 10,290,853 8,326,206 Paul W. Whetsell 74,668,708 8,869,823 8,326,206 Each of the director nominees was elected to serve as a director until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/0001437749-24-016111-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Proposal 3. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation. Votes For Votes Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 77,991,423 5,385,791 161,317 8,326,206 The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for the Annual Meeting, was approved, on an advisory basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774924016111/0001437749-24-016111-index.htm

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