CoStar Group stockholders approve 2025 stock incentive plan at June 26 annual meeting
At its June 26, 2025 annual meeting, CoStar Group stockholders approved the 2025 Stock Incentive Plan, which replaces the 2016 plan and allows grants of options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units. Stockholders also re-elected eight directors, ratified Ernst & Young LLP as auditor for 2025, and approved the advisory say-on-pay resolution, while rejecting a stockholder proposal on political spending transparency.
Key points
- 2025 Stock Incentive Plan approved with 369,269,515 votes for and 7,968,343 against, replacing the 2016 plan, under which no further grants will be made
- Advisory executive compensation resolution approved with 202,754,871 votes for and 174,302,322 against
- Ernst & Young LLP ratified as independent auditor for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, with 367,421,785 votes for
- Stockholder proposal on transparency in political spending not approved, with 124,189,745 votes for and 251,384,311 against
The filing
Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:12 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits 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 June 27, 2025.
Briefs are written by AI from the filing text (each brief's own page names the model) and can contain mistakes — open the filing before acting on anything. Impact (1-5) and tone are the model's reading of the filing for shareholders, not a price forecast. Not investment advice.