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

Unitil revises executive equity pay practices and grants restricted shares to officers

Neutral Impact 2 of 5 leadership Written later

On January 27, 2026, Unitil's Compensation Committee approved revised practices for restricted stock awards to executive officers and senior managers, changing only the treatment of dividends on those awards. The same day, the company granted restricted and unrestricted shares to its CEO, CFO and other named executive officers, with vesting tied to return on equity and book value per share goals.

Key points

  • Revised practices approved January 27, 2026; prior practices adopted January 24, 2023
  • CEO Thomas P. Meissner, Jr. received 8,090 time-restricted and 8,090 performance-restricted shares, plus 310 unrestricted shares
  • Performance-restricted shares depend on three-year average return on common equity and book value per share growth for the period ending December 31, 2028

The filing

CompanyUnitil (UTL)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECFeb 2, 2026, 5:03 PM ET
Accession number0001193125-26-033824

Items reported: 1.01 Material Definitive Agreement5.02 Director / Officer Change

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 6:59 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 February 02, 2026.

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