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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-003841"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IIIN"
cik: "0000764401"
company_name: "INSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T21:48:09.609329+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders approve Insteel 2025 Equity Incentive Plan with 800,000 new shares authorized

## Summary
- Stockholders approved the 2025 Plan at Feb 11, 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Plan authorizes up to 800,000 new shares plus carryover from 2015 Plan.
- Incentive options capped at 600,000 shares; non-employee director annual limit $750,000.
- Directors elected: Doyle, Ruth, Rutkowski to three-year terms; advisory say-on-pay passed.
- Grant Thornton LLP ratified as auditor for FY2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-003841
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IIIN
- cik: 0000764401
- company_name: INSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774925003841/0001437749-25-003841-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774925003841/iiin20250211_8k.htm

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