Company: GOLD
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-227657
Chunk: 20

Company: Gold.com, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 20
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-making, the Compensation Committee considers the results of recent stockholder advisory votes on executive compensation - known as "say-on-pay" votes - required by SEC proxy rules. At our 2024 Annual Meeting, 77.9% of the votes cast on our say-on-pay proposal were voted to approve the proposal; the approval percentages at our 2023 and 2022 Annual Meetings were 98.6% and 97.3% respectively. Based on these results, the Compensation Committee has concluded that the Company's stockholders generally support the principal elements of our compensation program. Objectives of Our Executive Compensation Program Our executive compensation program is based on a “pay-for-performance” philosophy, providing incentives and appropriate rewards to our executives to formulate and execute business plans that achieve long-term success and build stockholder value. To achieve these goals, the Committee has implemented significant features in our executive compensation program, particularly: (i) establishing annual non-equity incentive award opportunities for our senior NEOs (our CEO, President and COO), with pre-specified pay-out opportunities, (ii) tying the majority of those annual incentive award opportunities to the level of earned pre-tax profits, and giving significant weight to the pre-tax profits metric in determining discretionary awards, (iii) granting long-term equity awards that attract and retain executives, reward long-term performance and link executives' interests to the interests of stockholders, and (iv) providing that the compensation opportunity represented by annual incentive and long-term equity awards constitutes the majority of our NEOs' earnable compensation. We view pre-tax profit as a key financial metric for purposes of our business planning, providing a balanced incentive to management - requiring careful management of the many factors affecting revenues, expenses and gross profit -- that does not promote undue risk and that substantially reflects the quality of the execution of our business plan by our management team. We also regard pre-tax profits as a metric closely associated with positive returns to our stockholders. The Compensation Committee considers other accomplishments of our senior NEOs and, when appropriate, awards annual bonuses in the Committee's discretion based on those accomplishments.

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In the case of our General Counsel and our Chief Financial Officer, we provide for annual bonuses solely on a discretionary basis. The Compensation Committee recognizes that these officers have broad responsibilities, and evaluates their performance retrospectively. While their decisions, advice and execution of duties are important contributors to good financial performance, the positions require exercise of judgment that should not be unduly influenced by pre-set short-term financial incentives.