---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001486957-25-000032"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BWXT"
cik: "0001486957"
company_name: "BWX Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T07:40:32.510955+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BWX Technologies stockholders approve officer liability limitation, elect directors

## Summary
- Stockholders approved amendment limiting personal liability of officers for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty, effective May 5, 2025.
- Amendment passed with 65,444,274 votes for (84% of votes cast, excluding broker non-votes).
- All nine director nominees were elected with ~76M votes each; no changes to board composition.
- Advisory vote on 2024 named executive officer compensation approved with 76,104,190 votes for (98.7% of votes cast).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY2025 approved with 82,331,078 votes for (99.6% of votes cast).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001486957-25-000032
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BWXT
- cik: 0001486957
- company_name: BWX Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000148695725000032/0001486957-25-000032-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000148695725000032/bwxt-20250502.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001486957-25-000032.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BWX Technologies, Inc.: Amended Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-05-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-05
  source text: At the Annual Meeting on May 2, 2025, the Company's stockholders voted to approve an amendment to the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law. Subsequent to stockholder approval, on May 5, 2025, the Company effectuated the amendment by filing a Certificate of Amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486957/000148695725000032/0001486957-25-000032-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.