Company: ATO
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000731802-25-000061
Chunk: 64

Company: ATMOS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 64
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 (except to the extent they are amended pursuant to Proposals 5, 6, 7, or 8).

#### 62Atmos Energy
| Proposal 5                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     |                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Approval of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation to Provide for Plurality Voting in the Event of a Contested Election                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 The Board of Directors has unanimously approved, and recommends that shareholders approve, an amendment to the Company’s Existing Articles to be contained in an Amended and Restated Charter which would provide for a plurality voting standard in the context of a contested director election (the “Plurality Voting Amendment”). |     | The Board of Directors recommends that our shareholders voteFORthe approval of an amendment to the Existing Articles to provide for plurality voting in the event of a contested election. |

A contested election is an election where the number of director nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected. The current provision in the Existing Articles provides for majority voting for director elections whether contested or uncontested. If the Plurality Voting Amendment is approved and the number of director nominees exceeds the number of directors as established by our Board under the Company’s Bylaws (that is, the election is a contested election), plurality voting will apply in such election. Our Board of Directors believes that a plurality voting standard is more appropriate in the case of a contested election for a number of reasons, including avoiding the risk of a failed election (i.e., where one or more directors fails to receive majority vote). Under a plurality voting standard in a contested election, the nominees receiving the highest number of votes, regardless of whether the nominees receive a majority of votes cast in the election, would be elected as directors. The Plurality Voting Amendment would also remove an outdated reference to the Company’s previously classified Board. For the foregoing reasons, our Board of Directors determined that the Plurality Voting Amendment is advisable and in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.

Please see Appendix B which sets forth the Plurality Voting Amendment and marks those changes specifically.

Approval of the Plurality Voting Amendment requires the affirmative vote of the holders of more than two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock entitled to vote. If the Plurality Voting Amendment is approved, it will become effective upon filing of an appropriate certificate with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas and upon the issuance of a Certificate of Restatement by the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission. We anticipate making the necessary filings as soon as practicable following