Company: SDHC
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001982518-25-000012
Chunk: 27

Company: Smith Douglas Homes Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 holds an executive session including only independent directors at least once per year. Each executive session of the independent directors or non-management directors is presided over by the lead independent director.

#### Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
We have a written code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers, and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. A copy of the code is posted on our website at investors.smithdouglas.com. In addition, we intend to post on our website all disclosures that are required by law or the NYSE rules concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the code.

Insider Trading Compliance Policy and Anti-Hedging Policy

Our Board has adopted an Insider Trading Compliance Policy, which applies to all officers, directors and employees of the Company. We believe our Insider Trading Compliance Policy is reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, as well as listing standards applicable to the Company. A copy of our Insider Trading Policy is attached as Exhibit 19.1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2025.

The policy prohibits our directors, officers and employees and any entities they control from purchasing financial instruments, such as prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of the Company’s equity securities.

#### Attendance by Members of the Board at Meetings
There were five meetings of the Board during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, each director attended at least 75% of the aggregate of (i) all meetings of the Board and (ii) all meetings of the committees on which the director served during the period in which he or she served as a director, with the exception of Dr. Perdue who missed two out of five board meetings in 2024 due to prior business commitments.

Under our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which is available on our investor relations website at investors.smithdouglas.com , a director is expected to spend the time and effort necessary to properly discharge his or her responsibilities. Accordingly, a director is expected to regularly prepare for and attend meetings of the Board and all committees on which the director sits (including separate meetings of the independent directors), with the understanding that, on occasion