secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)
CIK:        0000078128
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001552781-23-000253
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Essential Utilities shareholders elect all 8 director nominees, approve say-on-pay
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- All 8 director nominees elected; highest votes: Edwina Kelly (194.9M for), lowest: Christopher H. Franklin (186.4M for).
- Say-on-pay for 2022 executive compensation approved with 187.2M for (96%) vs 7.8M against.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor for 2023 passed with 217.3M for (95% of votes cast).
- Advisory vote on frequency of say-on-pay: 1 year option received 191.5M votes (97%); board adopted 1-year frequency.
- Broker non-votes ranged from 30.0M for director elections to 30.96M for frequency proposal.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278123000253/0001552781-23-000253-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278123000253/e23247_wtrg-8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-23-000253

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