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accession: "0001698991-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACEL"
cik: "0001698991"
company_name: "Accel Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T23:37:40.364159+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Accel grants performance-based PSUs to CEO, CFO, and CCO with 3-year EBITDA targets

## Summary
- CEO Andrew Rubenstein granted 90,396 PSUs; CFO Mathew Ellis 19,774; CCO Derek Harmer 20,410.
- PSUs vest based on average annual adjusted EBITDA performance for 2023, 2024, 2025.
- Vesting ranges from 50% of target at 85% AEBITDA threshold to 200% at 115% maximum.
- Committee to set 2023 target AEBITDA in near future; awards under Long-Term Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698991-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACEL
- cik: 0001698991
- company_name: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899123000012/0001698991-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899123000012/acel-20230315.htm

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