Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
Chunk: 71

Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 71
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862,915 |
| J.A. Beggs          |     |                         — |     |                  — |     |          7,291 |     |   269,840 |
| J.R. Rathbun        |     |                    15,026 |     |            733,637 |     |          5,417 |     |   200,483 |
| A.M. Sanders        |     |                         — |     |                  — |     |              — |     |         — |
| C.L. Pederson       |     |                         — |     |                  — |     |          5,151 |     |   190,639 |
| M.A. Garratt        |     |                     5,568 |     |            269,016 |     |         22,617 |     | 1,006,991 |

#### Option Awards (columns (b) and (c))
Column (b) reports exercises of SARs during 2024 on an aggregate basis. The value realized on exercise (column (c)) was computed based on the difference between the closing stock price of the underlying securities at exercise and the base price of the SARs. The number of SARs withheld to cover taxes and the exercise price, and the net number of shares acquired as a result of SAR exercises during 2024 is as follows: Mr. Rathbun - 5,765 SARs and 9,261 shares; and Mr. Garratt - 1,552 SARs and 4,016 shares.

#### Stock Awards (columns (d) and (e))
Column (d) reports the vesting of RSUs during 2024 on an aggregate basis. For all applicable Named Executive Officers except Dr. Khandpur, the stock awards include RSUs that were granted on February 8, 2021 and vested on February 8, 2024. For Dr. Khandpur, the stock awards reflect RSUs that were granted in recognition of his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer on December 1, 2023, and which vest which vests ratably over four years. The amounts in these columns include shares awarded through a dividend equivalent feature under the applicable award.

The value realized on vesting (column (e)) was computed by multiplying the number of vested RSUs, including the corresponding dividend equivalents, by the closing stock price of the underlying securities on the vesting date. The number of shares withheld to cover taxes is as