---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-058272"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RICK"
cik: "0000935419"
company_name: "RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2026-08-20T20:44:51+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-20T20:46:08.837624+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RCI Hospitality annual meeting: all directors elected, auditor ratified, pay approved

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected; Yura Barabash received 1,730,545 for vs 2,006,208 withheld.
- Ratification of CBIZ CPAs P.C. passed: 6,074,895 for, 67,643 against, 3,759 abstained.
- Advisory executive compensation resolution passed: 3,181,534 for, 530,512 against, 24,707 abstained.
- 2,409,544 broker non-votes recorded on director election and comp resolution; 6,146,297 shares voted.
- Eric S. Langan, Travis Reese, Luke Lirot, Elaine J. Martin, Arthur Allan Priaulx also elected.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-058272
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RICK
- cik: 0000935419
- company_name: RCI HOSPITALITY HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-08-20T20:44:51+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828026058272/0001628280-26-058272-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935419/000162828026058272/rick-20260820.htm

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