---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001571996-25-000111"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DELL"
cik: "0001571996"
company_name: "Dell Technologies Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:55:52.725861+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dell grants COO Jeffrey Clarke 2.5M share option award valued at ~$132.4M

## Summary
- Award of 2,500,000 performance-based stock options to COO/Vice Chairman Jeffrey Clarke.
- Exercise price $141.77 per share; grant date fair value approximately $132.4 million.
- Vesting contingent on achieving market cap and free cash flow goals by Jan 31, 2031, and continued employment through Mar 15, 2031.
- Forfeiture if retirement/resignation prior to vesting; clawback if conduct detrimental within 1 year post-termination.
- Award aligns with long-term shareholder value creation, subject to 2023 Stock Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001571996-25-000111
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DELL
- cik: 0001571996
- company_name: Dell Technologies Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199625000111/0001571996-25-000111-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571996/000157199625000111/dell-20250930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001571996-25-000111.txt

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