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accession: "0001606757-24-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KE"
cik: "0001606757"
company_name: "Kimball Electronics, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T22:29:55.557887+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kimball Electronics boosts stock repurchase authorization by $20M to $120M

## Summary
- Board authorized $20M increase to stock repurchase plan; total authorization now $120M with no expiration.
- Robert J. Phillippy continues as Board Chair; committee assignments unchanged from prior year.
- Share ownership guidelines revised to include restricted/performance shares, exclude options, and shorten executive compliance window to 5 years.
- Shareholders reelected Gregory Lampert and Colleen Repplier as Class I directors with >96% approval; ratified Deloitte.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001606757-24-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KE
- cik: 0001606757
- company_name: Kimball Electronics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1606757/000160675724000073/0001606757-24-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606757/000160675724000073/ke-20241115.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606757-24-000073.txt

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