Company: SBH
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-313464
Chunk: 69

Company: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 69
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 which is scheduled to occur at the 2029 annual meeting. Please refer to “Proposal 2 – Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation”section of this Proxy Statement for information regarding the advisory (non-binding) resolution regarding the compensation of the Company’s NEOs, including the Company’s compensation practices and principles and their implementation, as disclosed in this Proxy Statement.

At the annual meeting of stockholders on January 24, 2025, in the advisory vote on executive compensation, over 96% of the shares voted were voted in support of the compensation of the Company’s NEOs. The Committee appreciates and values the views of our stockholders. As part of its compensation review, the Committee considered both the results of the 2025 advisory vote on executive compensation and feedback from our stockholders, and concluded that the compensation paid to our executive officers and the Company’s overall executive pay practices have strong stockholder support and have been effective in implementing the Company’s stated compensation philosophy and objectives. The Committee recognizes that executive pay practices and notions of sound governance principles continue to evolve. Consequently, the Committee intends to continue paying close attention to the advice and counsel of its compensation advisors and invites our stockholders to communicate any concerns or opinions on executive pay directly to the Committee or the Board. Please refer to“Corporate Governance, the Board and Its Committees — Communications with the Board”section of this Proxy Statement for information about communicating with the Board.

We design our executive compensation program to avoid excessive risk-taking. The following are some of the features of our program designed to help us appropriately manage business risk:

Diversification of incentive-related risk by employing complementary performance measures linked to growth, profitability and shareholder returns;

A balanced weighting of the various performance measures, to avoid excessive attention on achievement of one measure over another;

An assortment of vehicles for delivering compensation, including cash and equity-based incentives with different time horizons, to focus our executive officers on specific objectives that help us achieve our business plan and create an alignment with long-term stockholder interests;

A compensation clawback policy;

Standardized equity grant procedures; and

Equity ownership policy and retention requirement applicable to all executive officers.

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The annual grant of stock-based awards to our executive officers is generally made in the first quarter of the fiscal year and on the date of the first regularly scheduled Committee meeting (typically October or November) subject to any change in the discretion of the Committee. In addition to annual awards, other grants