---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001476765-24-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GBDC"
cik: "0001476765"
company_name: "GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T08:01:46.858610+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Golub Capital BDC stockholders elect directors and ratify auditor at annual meeting

## Summary
- Elected John T. Baily and Kenneth F. Bernstein as Class II directors, each to serve until 2027.
- Ratified Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for fiscal year ending Sep 30, 2024.
- Votes for Baily: 41.45M for, 23.14M against; Bernstein: 45.90M for, 18.70M against.
- Ratification of auditor: 113.66M for, 0.89M against, 1.11M abstain.
- Broker non-votes on director election totaled 50.75M shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001476765-24-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GBDC
- cik: 0001476765
- company_name: GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000147676524000019/0001476765-24-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000147676524000019/gbdc-20240202.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. shareholders approved To elect two Class II directors of the Company who will each serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. at the 2024-02-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-02
  source text: Proposal 1 . To elect two Class II directors of the Company who will each serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000147676524000019/0001476765-24-000019-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. shareholders approved To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. at the 2024-02-02 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-02
  source text: Proposal 2 . To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1476765/000147676524000019/0001476765-24-000019-index.htm

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