Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 94

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 94
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 indicated fiscal year. (4) Pursuant to rules of the SEC, the comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2019. Historic stock price performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance. (5) The Peer Group TSR utilizes the Nasdaq Global Select Market bank stock as the peer group index, which is the same industry index used in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K. (6) As noted in the “Compensation Discussion & Analysis,” for 2024, the Committee views Adjusted EPS as an important metric of Company performance. Fifty percent (50%) of the performance-based restricted stock units vest based on the Company’s three-year cumulative earnings per share as adjusted to exclude income taxes, acquisition-related charges, and the provision for credit losses with such amount being further reduced by actual net charge-offs of loans. Relationship Between Pay and Performance We believe the “Compensation Actually Paid” in each of the years reported above and over the five-year cumulative period are reflective of the Committee’s emphasis on “pay-for-performance” as the “Compensation Actually Paid” fluctuated year-over-year, primarily due to the result of our stock performance and our varying levels of achievement against pre-established performance goals under our short-term incentive awards and the LTIP. The following charts display the “Compensation Actually Paid” to the PEO and the average of the “Compensation Actually Paid” to the other NEOs as compared to the Company’s Adjusted EPS, Net Income and TSR over the five most recently completed years as well as the relationship between the Company’s TSR and the Peer Group TSR over such five-year period. 64 TABLE OF CONTENTS Performance Measures Used to Link Company Performance and Compensation Actually Paid to the NEOs The following is a list of financial performance measures, which in our assessment represent the most important financial performance measures used by the Company to link compensation actually paid to the NEOs for 2024: • Adjusted EPS • Net Income • TSR relative ranking within KRX Index Policies and Practices Related to the Timing of Grants of Certain Equity Awards The Compensation Committee and senior management monitor the Company’s equity grant practices to evaluate whether such policies comply with governing regulations and are consistent with good corporate practices. When making regular annual equity grants, the Compensation Committee’s practice is to 65

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approve them at its meeting in January of each year as part of the annual compensation review and after results for the preceding fiscal year become available. Because the Compensation Committee’s regular meeting schedule is determined in