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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-007952"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AXTI"
cik: "0001051627"
company_name: "AXT INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T02:46:07.582805+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AXT stockholders approve 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, elect director at annual meeting

## Summary
- Christine Russell elected Class III director with 94.9% of votes cast (14,621,153 For, 779,476 Withheld).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 13,609,497 For, 541,575 Against, 1,249,557 Abstain.
- 2025 Equity Incentive Plan approved; replaces 2015 Plan, reserves ~3.73M shares plus lapsed 2015 Plan awards.
- BPM LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2025: 30,939,751 For, 455,982 Against, 290,760 Abstain.
- Annual meeting quorum: 31,686,493 shares (69%) of 45,597,995 outstanding shares represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-007952
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AXTI
- cik: 0001051627
- company_name: AXT INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1051627/000155837025007952/0001558370-25-007952-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1051627/000155837025007952/axti-20250515x8k.htm

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