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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001767258-26-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XPEL"
cik: "0001767258"
company_name: "XPEL, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-02-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T00:23:50.174751+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# XPEL amends bylaws to require cause for director removal; reduces insider trading blackout period

## Summary
- Bylaw amendment: directors may only be removed for cause, by 2/3 stockholder vote or majority board vote.
- Insider trading policy amended: blackout period for key personnel shortened from last month to last two weeks of each fiscal quarter.
- Both amendments adopted February 19, 2026 and effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001767258-26-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XPEL
- cik: 0001767258
- company_name: XPEL, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-02-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767258/000176725826000010/0001767258-26-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767258/000176725826000010/xpel-20260219.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001767258-26-000010.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: f608fd5f0eaaf736fa8c8195fa91f4477350078b
  claim: XPEL, Inc.: Amended bylaws to require cause for director removal and supermajority stockholder vote or majority board vote for removal (effective 2026-02-19).
  evidence_excerpt: On February 19, 2026, XPEL, Inc. (“XPEL” or the “Company”) amended its bylaws (the “Amendment”) to promote continuity in Board composition and allow directors to focus on long-term corporate interests by providing that directors may only be removed by the stockholders for cause and only by either (a) the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two‐thirds (2/3) of the voting power of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, at a meeting of stockholders called expressly for that purpose, or (b) the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board at a meeting of the Board of Directors called expressly for that purpose.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767258/000176725826000010/0001767258-26-000010-index.htm

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