Company: AOS
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-037641
Chunk: 5

Company: SMITH A O CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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holders of record who received a paper Proxy Card can vote their shares by a toll-free telephone number on the Proxy Card or in the voting instruction form sent by their broker, bank or other agent. Telephone voting for stockholders of record is available 24 hours a day and will close at 11:59 p.m. (CDT) on April 7, 2025.

By Mail – Stockholders of record who have received a paper Proxy Card may vote by completing, signing and dating their Proxy Card and mailing it in the pre-addressed envelope. Proxy Cards submitted by mail must be received by April 7, 2025, for your shares to be voted. Stockholders who hold shares beneficially in street name and received a voting instruction form from their broker, bank or other agent may vote by completing, signing and dating the instruction form provided by the broker, bank or other agent and mailing it in the pre-addressed envelope provided.

If you vote via the Internet, by telephone or by mailing a Proxy Card, we will vote your shares as you direct. For the election of directors, you can specify whether your shares should be voted “for” all or some of the nominees for

2A. O. Smith Corporation

Proxy Statement 2025 Annual Meeting

director listed or you may “withhold” your vote from all or some of the nominees for director. With respect to the proposal to approve the compensation of our named executive officers by advisory vote, the proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm and the stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, requesting a Board report on our hiring practices with respect to formerly incarcerated people, you may vote “for” or “against” any proposal or you may “abstain” from voting on any proposal.

If you submit a proxy via the Internet, by telephone or by mailing a Proxy Card without indicating your instructions, we will vote your shares consistent with the recommendations of our Board of Directors as stated in this Proxy Statement. Specifically, we will vote in favor of our nominees for directors, in favor of approving the compensation of our named executive officers, in favor of the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm and against the stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, requesting a Board report on our hiring practices with respect to formerly incarcerated people. If any other matters are properly presented at the Annual Meeting for consideration, then our officers named on your proxy will have discretion