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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-028207"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TSLA"
cik: "0001318605"
company_name: "Tesla, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T03:13:40.978059+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tesla announces 3-for-1 stock split; shareholders approve 4B share increase at annual meeting

## Summary
- Board declares 3-for-1 stock split via stock dividend; record date Aug 17, distribution Aug 24, split-adjusted trading Aug 25.
- Stockholders approved amendment to increase authorized common shares by 4B (to ~6B total).
- Elected Class III directors Ira Ehrenpreis and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson.
- Proposals to reduce director terms to 2 years and eliminate supermajority voting failed to get 2/3 supermajority.
- Ratified PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor for FY 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-028207
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TSLA
- cik: 0001318605
- company_name: Tesla, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459022028207/0001564590-22-028207-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459022028207/tsla-8k_20220804.htm

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