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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · AES (AES)

AES shareholders elect 11 directors and approve 2025 equity compensation plan

Neutral Impact 2 of 5 shareholder Written later

At its May 9, 2025 annual meeting, AES stockholders elected all eleven director nominees, approved The AES Corporation 2025 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan, and ratified Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2025. A non-binding stockholder proposal to amend the company's policy on recoupment of incentive pay was voted down, with 540,363,315 votes against and 34,111,882 for.

Key points

  • Equity plan approved: 551,297,079 for and 24,094,695 against; authorizes 14,000,000 shares plus unused shares from the 2003 Long Term Compensation Plan
  • Recoupment policy proposal rejected: 34,111,882 for and 540,363,315 against
  • Advisory vote on executive compensation: 487,583,327 for and 87,033,955 against
  • Plan caps non-employee director pay at $900,000 per calendar year

The filing

CompanyAES (AES)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECMay 9, 2025, 4:20 PM ET
Accession number0000874761-25-000054

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change5.07 Shareholder Vote Results

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI on Nov 8, 2026, 12:56 AM ET, from this filing only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on May 09, 2025.

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