Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-004188
Chunk: 66

Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 66
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 Incentive Plan which was approved by the stockholders at the annual meeting of stockholders on March 29, 2022, and as so amended is referred to herein as the “2017 Plan”.

This Second Amendment (the “Second Amendment”) to the 2017 Plan authorizes an additional 350,000 new shares of “Company Stock” (as defined in the 2017 Plan) for issuance under the 2017 Plan (the “2025 Additional Shares”). The 2025 Additional Shares are authorized but unissued shares of Company Stock.

The Second Amendment makes no other amendments, modifications, or changes to the 2017 Plan. All terms not otherwise defined in the Second Amendment shall have the meanings set forth in the 2017 Plan.

2. Addition of New Shares of Company Stock to the Total Reserve.

The 2017 Plan is amended to add and include the 2025 Additional Shares in the “Total Share Reserve” (defined in Section 4(a) of the 2017 Plan), provided that such reservation of the 2025 Additional Shares is approved by the Company’s stockholders at the annual meeting of the stockholders to be held on March 25, 2025, or at any adjournment thereof.

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OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION

Proxy Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Directors of Optical Cable

Corporation for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be Held March 25, 2025

NOTICE OF INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIAL AND VOTING:

The Notice of Meeting, proxy statement and proxy card are available at .

You may vote by one of the following methods:</div>

| (1) | completing, signing and returning promptly the enclosed proxy in the envelope provided;             |
| (2) | going online to http://www.proxyvote.com, as appropriate, and following the online instructions; or |
| (3) | in person if you so desire even if you have previously sent in your proxy or voted online.          |

<div align='center'>The method by which you vote last will be the vote the Company counts.

If you intend to vote by using this proxy card, please sign, date and mail

your proxy card in the envelope provided as soon as possible.</div>

The undersigned appoints Neil D. Wilkin, Jr. and Tracy G. Smith, or either of