Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
Chunk: 2

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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| REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE                                                                                       |     | 60 |
| RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM                                        |     | 62 |
| REPORT OF THE NOMINATING AND GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE                                                                   |     | 63 |
| DATES FOR STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS                                                                                     |     | 64 |
| STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING A BOARD REPORT ON OUR HIRING PRACTICES WITH RESPECT TO FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE |     | 65 |

PROXY STATEMENT

2025 ANNUAL MEETING

GENERAL INFORMATION

**This Proxy Statement is furnished to stockholders of A. O. Smith Corporation in connection with the solicitation by its Board of Directors of proxies for use at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of our company to be held on April 8, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. (EDT). The Annual Meeting will be at the National Association of Manufacturers, 733 10th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C.

Under rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or “SEC,” we are furnishing proxy materials, which include our Proxy Statement and Annual Report, to our stockholders over the Internet and providing an Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) by mail. You will not receive a printed copy of the proxy materials unless you request to receive these materials in hard copy by following the instructions provided in the Notice. Instead, the Notice will instruct you how you may access and review all of the important information contained in the proxy materials. The Notice also instructs you how you may submit your proxy via the Internet. If you received a Notice by mail and would like to receive a printed copy of our proxy materials, you should follow the instructions for requesting such materials included in the Notice.

The company is mailing the Notice on or about February 27, 2025, to each stockholder at the holder’s address of record.

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Stockholders’ Meeting to be held on April 8, 2025: The Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, this Proxy Statement and our 2024 Annual Report are also available at www.proxydocs.com/aos.**

Record Date

The record date for stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting is the close of business on February 18, 2025 (the “Record Date”).