392 material Form 8-K filings that 341 companies we cover made with the SEC in July 2024, each read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). All of them were written later, when past filings were added: a selection, not every 8-K of the month (see the note below).
City Holding Company (CHCO) appointed retired Major General James A. Hoyer to its Board of Directors effective July 31, 2024, increasing the board from 13 to 14 directors. Hoyer also joined the board of its subsidiary, City National Bank of West Virginia, and will stand for election by shareholders at the April 2025 annual meeting.
Hoyer is named as a Class II director, with a term expiring at the 2028 annual meeting
Board size increases from 13 to 14 directors
Hoyer has not been appointed to any board committees as of the filing date
Compensation will follow the company's standard non-employee director arrangements disclosed in its 2024 proxy statement
J.B. Hunt Transport Services disclosed in a July 31, 2024 Form 8-K that director Patrick Ottensmeyer died on July 28, 2024. He had joined the board earlier in 2024 and was serving on the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The filing is a board-composition change rather than a business or financial update.
Director Patrick Ottensmeyer passed away on July 28, 2024.
He joined the board earlier in 2024 after a career in the rail industry.
He was serving on the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Simpson Manufacturing Co. said its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Brian Magstadt, will retire effective December 31, 2024. The company has started a search for a successor that includes both internal and external candidates, and the filing does not name a replacement or report any financial results.
Brian Magstadt notified the company on July 25, 2024, that he will retire effective December 31, 2024.
Magstadt joined Simpson in 2004 and has been CFO and Treasurer since 2012.
The company is searching for a new CFO, with both internal and external candidates under consideration.
CEO Mike Olosky said the search is already underway.
Kinder Morgan (KMI) disclosed that director Joel V. Staff notified the company on July 30, 2024 that he will retire from its Board of Directors effective August 1, 2024. The filing states his decision was not due to any disagreement with the company, and it does not name a replacement director.
Joel V. Staff notified Kinder Morgan on July 30, 2024 of his retirement from the Board of Directors.
Retirement is effective August 1, 2024.
The filing states the decision was not due to any disagreement with Kinder Morgan.
On July 29, 2024, Texas Capital Bancshares entered into an amended and restated employment agreement with CEO Robert C. Holmes and approved special retention restricted stock units for four named executive officers. The board said the changes reflect Holmes's leadership through the company's multi-year transformation, and the filing sets out larger severance and change-in-control terms that apply to him.
CEO agreement sets base salary at $1,100,000 with a target cash incentive of not less than 200% for the rest of 2024 and not less than 180% from 2025
Holmes receives a one-time RSU award with a grant date value of $4,045,489 (61,491 units), cliff vesting on the third anniversary of grant
Severance is two times base salary plus target bonus, rising to three times if termination occurs from 90 days before to two years after a change in control
Other named executives receiving RSUs: J. Matthew Scurlock $1,000,000, John W. Cummings $350,000, Anna M. Alvarado $375,000
Briefs are written by AI from the filing text and can contain mistakes — open the filing before acting on anything. Impact (1-5) and tone are the AI's reading of the filing for shareholders, not a price forecast. Not investment advice.
Briefs marked “Written later” were written in November 2026 for filings that were by then more than three weeks old, so months before mid-October 2026 hold a selection: every material 8-K of the past year for the 100 largest companies we cover and the last 15 important 8-Ks of every other one. Briefs the number check holds back are not shown or counted. Also: the last 45 days, briefs by company, A–Z and the live SEC filings wire.