Company: EGP
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000049600-25-000055
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Company: EASTGROUP PROPERTIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 We intend to disclose on this website any amendment to, or waiver of, any provision of the Code of Ethics applicable to our directors and executive officers that would otherwise be required to be disclosed under the rules of the SEC or the NYSE.

#### 2025Proxy Statement31

#### Proposal 1: Election of Directors

#### Corporate Governance Guidelines
Our Board adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines, a copy of which is available on our website at http://investor.eastgroup.net/governance-documents . The information contained on, or available through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this proxy statement. Copies of our Code of Ethics and Corporate Governance Guidelines may also be obtained free of charge by writing to EastGroup Properties, Inc., 400 W. Parkway Place, Suite 100, Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157, Attention: Investor Relations.

#### Board Attendance at Meetings
The Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that all directors are expected to regularly attend all meetings of the Board and the Board committees on which they serve. The Board held seven meetings during the Company’s 2024 fiscal year, and each director attended 75% or more of the Board meetings and meetings held by all committees of the Board on which he or she served. Each director nominee is also expected to attend the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders. All of our Board members who were directors at the time of the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders attended that meeting.

| 27                                                  
 Board (7) and Board committee (20) meetings in 2024 |     | 98%                                                                    
 Average attendance for directors at Board and Board committee meetings |     | 100%                                                                
 Attendance for directors at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |

#### Compensation of Directors
We believe that a combination of cash and equity compensation is appropriate to attract and retain the individuals we desire to serve on our Board and that this approach is comparable to the policies of our peers. We feel that it is appropriate to provide cash compensation to our non-employee directors to compensate them for their time and effort and to provide equity compensation to our non-employee directors to align their long-term interests with those of the Company and our shareholders.

Under the Company’s director compensation program as set forth in the Independent Director Compensation Policy, non- employee directors are paid annual cash retainers and receive equity-based compensation for their service as shown below. In addition, each non-employee director is reimbursed for his or her expenses in connection with attendance of meetings.

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