Company: HUM
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001628280-25-009237
Chunk: 68

Company: HUMANA INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 424B5
Chunk 68
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 to us or any of our subsidiaries of any assets of a related company or an affiliate of a related company in exchange for our equity securities.

The foregoing provision is not applicable to any such transaction if our board of directors approves the applicable transaction with a related company or affiliate prior to the time that the related company or affiliate became a holder of more than 5% of any class of our equity securities.

Under Article Eleventh of our certificate of incorporation,

• a “related company” in respect of any given transaction is any company, person or other entity which by itself or together with its affiliates and associates is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 5% of any class of our equity securities as of the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote on such transactions;

• an “affiliate” of a related company is any company, person or other entity which, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the related company; and

• an “associate” of a related company is any officer, director or beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of 5% or more of any class of equity securities of such related company or any of its affiliates.

The provisions of Article Eleventh of our certificate of incorporation may not be amended without the affirmative vote of three-fourths of our outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon.

Advanced Notice Procedures for Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations . Our by-laws set forth advance notice provisions with respect to stockholders seeking to bring business before an annual meeting of stockholders, or to nominate candidates for election as directors at an annual meeting of stockholders or special meeting of stockholders called by our board of directors for that purpose. Our by-laws also specify various requirements as to the timing, form and content of a stockholder’s notice.

#### Special Meetings
. Special meetings of our stockholders may be held if our board of directors, its chairman, our chief executive officer or our president calls a meeting. However, these persons must call a meeting if stockholders

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owning one-fourth of our shares then issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on matters to be submitted to our stockholders request in writing that a meeting be held, subject to certain requirements specified in our by-laws.

#### Preferred Stock
. The ability of our board of directors to establish the rights and issue substantial amounts of preferred stock without the need for stockholder approval, while