Company: OCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-004188
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Company: OPTICAL CABLE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 subject to forfeiture and generally vesting over more than five years.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| (2) | These amounts represent insurance premiums and medical benefits paid or accrued by the Company on behalf of the individual executive officers, the Company’s paid or accrued contributions to the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan on behalf of the individual executive officers during the fiscal year and the Company’s paid or accrued contributions to the individual executive officers’ health savings plans during the fiscal year. |

Stock Option Grants

The Company has not granted any stock options since June 2002. All unexercised option contracts issued by the Company expired in fiscal year 2012.

Outstanding Equity Awards Table at Fiscal Year End

The following table provides information concerning unvested restricted shares of the Company’s Common Shares held by the named executive officers of the Company as of October 31, 2024:

| Name                |     | Stock Awards     
 Number of Shares 
 of Stock That    
 Have Not Vested  |        |     | Market Value of Shares            
 of Stock That Have Not Vested (1) |         |
|:--------------------|:----|:-----------------|-------:|:----|:----------------------------------|--------:|
| Neil D. Wilkin, Jr. |     |                  | 94,542 |     | $                                 | 231,628 |
| Tracy G. Smith      |     |                  | 47,150 |     |                                   | 115,518 |

| (1) | The market value of the stock awards is based on the closing market price of the Company’s Common Shares as of October 31, 2024, which was $2.45. |

Stock Option Exercises

All unexercised option contracts issued by the Company expired in fiscal year 2012.

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Summary of Equity Compensation Plans

A summary of OCC’s equity compensation plan as of October 31, 2024 follows:

|                                       |     | -a               |         |     | -b                |   |     | -c                                                           |        |
| Plan Category                         |     | Number of        
 securities to be 
 issued upon      
 exercise of      
 outstanding      
 options,         
 warrants and     
 rights (1)       |         |     | Weighted-         
 average exercise  
 price of          
 outstanding       
 options, warrants 
 and rights        |   |     | Number of securities remaining available                     
 for future issuance                                          
 under equity                                                 
 compensation plans (excluding securities reflected