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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001614178-24-000142"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YEXT"
cik: "0001614178"
company_name: "Yext, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T03:37:07.685913+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yext awards 234k RSUs to CEO Bond and 122k RSUs to EVP Shin as retention grants

## Summary
- Compensation Committee approved special retention RSUs on Dec 11, 2024 for CEO Darryl Bond (234,000 shares) and EVP & General Counsel Ho Shin (122,000 shares).
- Vesting schedule: 5/7 on June 20, 2025; 1/7 on Sep 20, 2025; 1/7 on Dec 20, 2025, subject to continued service.
- Grants were made under the company's 2016 Equity Incentive Plan and are intended to retain key executives.
- No other named executive officers received such awards in this action.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001614178-24-000142
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YEXT
- cik: 0001614178
- company_name: Yext, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1614178/000161417824000142/0001614178-24-000142-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1614178/000161417824000142/yext-20241211.htm

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