---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001738827-25-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KLXE"
cik: "0001738827"
company_name: "KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T01:53:15.427716+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KLXE annual meeting: board declassification fails; say-on-pay rejected; directors elected

## Summary
- Board declassification proposal failed, needing 66 2/3% of outstanding shares; got ~6.7M for vs 1.2M against (excluding broker non-votes).
- Non-binding advisory vote on named executive officer compensation was not approved: 3.3M for, 4.1M against.
- Super-majority voting requirement elimination proposals for bylaws and charter both failed to achieve required 66 2/3% threshold.
- Three Class I directors elected: Christopher J. Baker, Gunnar Eliassen, and John T. Whates.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor approved with 12.9M for, 0.3M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001738827-25-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KLXE
- cik: 0001738827
- company_name: KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1738827/000173882725000054/0001738827-25-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1738827/000173882725000054/klxe-20250507.htm

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