Company: ORLY
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000898173-25-000013
Chunk: 48

Company: O REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 48
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 create an electronic voting instruction form.3)Via Telephone:Using any touch-tone telephone, you may vote your shares by dialing toll-free:  1-800-690-6903.  Have your proxy card in hand when calling and follow the instructions.4)During the Meeting:  You may vote at the Annual Meeting using the 16-digit control number included on your proxy card, voting instruction form or Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials.If you choose to vote on the Internet or by telephone, please note voting will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.  The Board encourages you to vote your shares promptly.May I change my vote after I submit my proxy?You may change your vote after submitting a proxy card.  If, after sending in your proxy, you desire to revoke your proxy for any reason, you may do so by notifying the Secretary of the Company in writing at the principal executive office at any time prior to the voting of the proxy.  The Company’s principal executive office is located at 455 South Patterson Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65802, the mailing address for which is O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., 233 South Patterson Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65802, Attention: Secretary.Are my votes confidential?All shareholder meeting proxies and tabulations that identify the vote of a particular shareholder will be kept confidential, except as necessary to allow the inspectors of election to certify the voting results or to meet legal requirements.  Representatives of Broadridge Financial Solutions (“Broadridge”) will act as the inspector of election and will count the votes.How will my vote be counted?All votes will be tabulated by Broadridge.  All properly executed proxies received by the Board pursuant to this solicitation will be voted in accordance with the shareholder’s directions specified in the proxy card.  If no such directions have been specified by marking the appropriate squares in the signed and returned proxy card, the shares will be voted by the persons named in the enclosed proxy card as follows:1)FOR the election as Directors the nine nominees named in this proxy statement.2)FOR the approval, by an advisory (non-binding) vote, of the 2024 compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers.3)FOR the amendment to the Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock for the primary purpose of effecting a 15-for-1 stock split.4)FOR the ratification of the selection of Ernst