8-K
filed May 2, 2024, 7:59 PM ET
ticker WTRG
CIK 0000078128
other
confidence high
sentiment neutral
materiality 0.15
Essential Utilities shareholders elect all nine director nominees at 2024 annual meeting
Essential Utilities, Inc.
- All nine director nominees elected, including Christopher H. Franklin, with votes ranging from 194.8M to 207.5M 'for' and up to 14.4M 'withheld'.
- Advisory vote on 2023 executive compensation approved with 194.7M 'for', 13.0M 'against', and 1.4M 'abstain'.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor for fiscal 2024 passed with 227.6M 'for', 11.1M 'against', and 0.9M 'abstain'.
- Amendment to bylaws implementing universal proxy rules ratified with 206.6M 'for', 1.6M 'against', and 1.0M 'abstain'.
- Broker non-votes recorded: 30.4M for director elections, advisory vote, and bylaw amendment; none for auditor ratification.
Key facts
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Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Essential Utilities, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers for 2023 at the 2024-05-01 meeting.
- Proposal
- say on pay
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2024-05-01
Exact text from the filing
2. The advisory vote to approve the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers for 2023 as disclosed in the Company’s Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting was approved by the following vote of shareholders: For Against Abstain 194,712,551 13,046,186 1,442,470 There were 30,422,691 broker non-votes for this proposal.
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Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Essential Utilities, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of an amendment to the Company’s Bylaws to implement universal proxy rules at the 2024-05-01 meeting.
- Proposal
- charter amendment
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2024-05-01
Exact text from the filing
4. The ratification of an Amendment to the Company’s Bylaws to implement universal proxy rules governing contested elections of directors: For Against Abstain 206,649,736 1,584,454 967,017 There were 30,422,691 broker non-votes for this proposal.
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Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Essential Utilities, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2024 at the 2024-05-01 meeting.
- Proposal
- auditor ratification
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2024-05-01
Exact text from the filing
3. The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the 2024 fiscal year was ratified by the following vote of shareholders: For Against Abstain 227,635,364 11,112,905 875,629 There were no broker non-votes for the ratification of the independent registered public accounting firm.
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Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Essential Utilities, Inc. shareholders approved Election of directors at the 2024-05-01 meeting.
- Proposal
- director election
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2024-05-01
Exact text from the filing
1. The following nominees were elected as directors of the Company to serve for one-year terms and until their successors are elected and qualified. The votes received are set forth adjacent to the names below: Name of Nominee For Withheld Elizabeth B. Amato 201,170,659 8,030,548 Christopher L. Bruner 194,836,513 14,364,694 David A. Ciesinski 204,999,829 4,201,378 Christopher H. Franklin 198,017,989 11,183,218 Daniel J. Hilferty 202,888,796 6,312,411 Edwina Kelly 207,397,198 1,804,009 W. Bryan Lewis 207,525,561 1,675,646 Tamara L. Linde 207,705,590 1,495,617 Roderick K West 206,461,226 2,739,981 There were 30,422,961 broker non-votes recorded for each nominee.
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