Company: ASTE
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-023778
Chunk: 115

Company: ASTEC INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 115
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AND DEFERRED STOCK UNITS 9.1. GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK, RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS AND DEFERRED STOCK UNITS . The Committee is authorized to make Awards of Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units to Participants in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as may be selected by the Committee. An Award of Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units shall be evidenced by an Award Certificate setting forth the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to the Award. 9.2. ISSUANCE AND RESTRICTIONS . Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units shall be subject to such restrictions on transferability and other restrictions as the Committee may impose (including, for example, limitations on the right to vote Restricted Stock or the right to receive dividends on the Restricted Stock). These restrictions may lapse separately or in combination at such times, under such circumstances, in such installments, upon the satisfaction of performance goals or otherwise, as the Committee determines (subject to Section 13.6) at the time of the grant of the Award or thereafter. Except as otherwise provided in an Award Certificate, a Participant shall have none of the rights of a shareholder with respect to Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units until such time as Shares of Stock are paid in settlement of such Awards. 9.3. DIVIDENDS AND DIVIDEND EQUIVALENTS . Dividends accrued on shares of Restricted Stock or Dividend Equivalents accrued with respect to Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units before the underlying Awards are vested shall, as provided in the Award Certificate, (i) be forfeited, (ii) be reinvested in the form of additional Shares (subject to Share availability under Section 5.1 hereof), which shall be subject to the same vesting provisions as provided for the host Award, or (iii) be credited by the Company to an account for the Participant and accumulated without interest until the date upon which the host Award becomes vested, and any dividends or Dividend Equivalents accrued with respect to forfeited Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Units will be reconveyed to the Company without further consideration or any act or action by the Participant. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, any Shares or any other TABLE OF CONTENTS 80 Astec Industries, Inc. | Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement 2025 property distributed as a dividend, Dividend Equivalent or otherwise with respect to any Restricted Stock