Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 56

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 56
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 | The affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of our common stock cast at the meeting or by proxy is required for approval of each other item. |

What if I don’t vote for some of the matters listed in these proxy materials or on my proxy card? If you vote for some, but not all, matters electronically or by telephone, or return a proxy card without indicating your vote with regard to a particular matter, your shares will be voted “for” all of the nominees listed on the card for which you do not indicate a contrary intention, and “for” each of items 2 and 3, except to the extent you indicate a contrary intention, and your shares will be voted in the discretion of the proxy holders as to any other matters that may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any postponement or adjournment of the Annual Meeting.

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How are broker non-votesand abstentions treated? Under the rules of the NYSE, because the proposals to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting include both routine and non-routinematters, your broker or nominee may return proxy cards that vote uninstructed shares “FOR” or “AGAINST” Item 3, which is a routine matter, but your broker or nominee may not vote your shares without your specific voting instructions on Items 1 and 2, which are non-routinematters. Accordingly, if you do not instruct your broker or nominee as to how to vote your shares on Items 1 and 2, this would be a broker “non-vote”,and your shares would not be counted as having been voted on the applicable proposal. We therefore encourage you to instruct your broker or nominee on how you wish to vote your shares. Please vote; your vote is important. Voting on matters presented at shareholders meetings, particularly the election of directors, is the primary method for shareholders to influence the direction taken by a publicly traded company. We urge you to participate in the election through any of the above-noted means. Broker non-votesand abstentions are counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. When tabulating the voting results for any particular proposal, shares that constitute broker non-votesand, pursuant to our By-Laws,abstentions are not considered votes cast on that proposal. Accordingly, broker non-votesand abstentions will not affect the outcome of any matter being voted on at the Annual Meeting. In order to minimize the number