Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form Type: 8-A12B/A
Source: 0000807882-25-000049
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Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-09
Form: 8-A12B/A
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 the Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2025, between the Company and the Rights Agent (the “Rights Agreement”). The Amendment amends the definition of “Acquiring Person” set forth in the Rights Agreement to provide that, in addition to the other exemptions set forth therein, the term “Acquiring Person” shall not include certain persons that beneficially own less than 20% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock if they qualify as a “Passive Institutional Investor” (as such term is defined in the Amendment).

The foregoing description of the Rights Agreement and the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Rights Agreement, which was attached as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 2, 2025, and the Amendment, which wa s attached as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 9, 2025, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

## Item 2.
Exhibits

| Exhibit No. |     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| (1)         |     | Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2025, between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent, which includes as Exhibit A the forms of Rights Certificate and Election to Exercise and as Exhibit B the form of Certificate of Designation and Terms of Participating Preferred Stock of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 2, 2025). |
| (2)         |     | Amendment No. 1 to Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as of September 8, 2025, between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 9, 2025).                                                                                                                                                                            |

### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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