Company: CPS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001320461-25-000073
Chunk: 15

Company: Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 for NEOs, designed to motivate leadership to execute our long-term growth strategy while delivering consistently strong financial results. A description of the use of FCF as a performance metric for NEO performance-based compensation for the most recently completed fiscal year is included under “Long-Term Incentive Compensation” under the Executive Compensation Components section. |

| 3Relative Total Shareholder Return (RTSR) was used, in addition to the ROIC performance metric, as a financial measure within our long-term incentive compensation programs for NEOs in both the 2022 and 2023 Performance RSUs, which was designed to motivate leadership to execute our long-term growth strategy. A description of the use of RTSR as a performance metric for NEO performance-based compensation for the most recently completed fiscal year is included under “Long-Term Incentive Compensation” under the Executive Compensation Components section. |

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 66 |

| Proposal 2 |

| Relationship Between Financial Performance Measures and Executive Compensation Actually Paid                                                                                                                                                  
 Set forth below are graphical depictions of the relationships between CAP for the PEO and the NEOs, with: (i) the Company’s TSR, (ii) peer group TSR, (iii) the Company’s net income, and (iv) Adjusted EBITDA, the Company-Selected Measure. |

| 67 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

| Proposal 2 |

| 2025 Proxy Statement |     | 68 |

| Proposal 3                                                                                      
 Ratification of Appointment of Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2025 |

| Proposal 3 is the ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection and reappointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the financial statements of the Company for the 2025 fiscal year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 Each year, the Audit Committee reviews the performance, independence, and qualifications of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. Ernst & Young LLP has served as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm since 2005, and the Audit Committee has selected Ernst & Young LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2025. In considering whether to reappoint Ernst & Young LLP in 2025, the Audit Committee considered, among other things:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 •all relationships between Ernst & Young LLP and the Company to determine Ernst & Young LLP’s continuing independence;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 •Ernst & Young LLP’s knowledge of and