Item 5.02. |
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On January 21, 2025, the stockholders of MicroStrategy Incorporated (the “Company”) approved an amendment (the “2024 Plan Amendment”) to the MicroStrategy Incorporated 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Original Plan” and, such plan, as amended by the 2024 Plan Amendment, the “Amended Plan”) at the Company’s 2025 Special Meeting of Stockholders (the “Special Meeting”). The 2024 Plan Amendment had been previously adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), subject to stockholder approval, on December 20, 2024. The 2024 Plan Amendment amended the Original Plan to provide that, beginning on December 20, 2024, each non-employee director who is newly appointed to the Board shall automatically receive, upon the date of such director’s initial appointment to the Board, equity awards having an aggregate fair value equal to $2,000,000, one-half of which ($1,000,000) will consist of a non-statutory stock option and one-half of which ($1,000,000) will consist of restricted stock units, with each award vesting annually in equal installments over four years. No other amendments were made to the Original Plan.
A more detailed description of the 2024 Plan Amendment and the Amended Plan is contained on pages 13 to 24 of the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the “Proxy Statement”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference. A complete copy of the Amended Plan is included as Appendix D to the Proxy Statement and is also incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.03. |
Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. |
On January 22, 2025, the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware an amendment (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to the Company’s Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation to (i) increase the number of authorized shares of Class A common stock (“Class A Common Stock”), par value $0.001 per share, from 330,000,000 to 10,330,000,000; (ii) increase the number of authorized shares of preferred stock (“Preferred Stock”), par value $0.001 per share, from 5,000,000 to 1,005,000,000; and (iii) correspondingly increase the total number of authorized shares of capital stock (which is the sum of the authorized number of Class A Common Stock, Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and Preferred Stock) from 500,000,000 to 11,500,000,000 shares of capital stock. The Certificate of Amendment became effective on January 22, 2025 upon filing with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
The foregoing summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Certificate of Amendment, which is attached as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.07. |
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
On January 21, 2025, the Company held the Special Meeting. A summary of the matters voted upon by stockholders at the Special Meeting is set forth below:
Proposal 1. The Common Stock Amendment Proposal
The Company’s stockholders approved and adopted an amendment to Article Four of the Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation of MicroStrategy Incorporated to increase the number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock from 330,000,000 shares to 10,330,000,000 shares (“Proposal 1”). The final voting results for Proposal 1 are as follows:
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Votes For |
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Votes Against |
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Abstentions |
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Broker Non-Votes |
234,937,922 |
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37,896,858 |
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356,581 |
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