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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-017809"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARDX"
cik: "0001437402"
company_name: "ARDELYX, INC."
filed_at: "2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T23:56:40.256444+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ardelyx adjourns annual meeting on reverse stock split; needs more votes

## Summary
- Proposal to authorize reverse stock split (1:2 to 1:10) received 66.74% of votes cast but needs >50% of outstanding shares; meeting adjourned to July 13.
- Stockholders elected Class II directors Block, Mott, Raab; Mott received 42.2M For vs 23.8M Withheld.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor approved (85.7M For, 2.6M Against).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (48.0M For, 14.4M Against, 3.6M Abstain).
- As of record date, 144.1M shares outstanding; 91.2M shares voted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-017809
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARDX
- cik: 0001437402
- company_name: ARDELYX, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1437402/000162828022017809/0001628280-22-017809-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1437402/000162828022017809/ardx-20220615.htm

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