Company: GPI
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001031203-25-000018
Chunk: 18

Company: GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 18
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,000 on the grant date. Messrs. Pereira, Stanbrook, Szews and Quinn elected to receive restricted stock and Mses. Barth, Taylor and Wright and Mr. Mizell elected to receive restricted stock units. The grant was effective January 2, 2024, with the value determined based on the average of the high and low market price of our common stock on that date. Accordingly, each non-employee director received 739 shares of restricted stock or restricted stock units, as applicable. Mr. Kenningham receives no compensation for his service as a director.

Restricted stock or restricted stock units granted to our directors vest immediately upon grant and will settle upon the retirement, death or disability of the director. Since January 1, 2019, all restricted stock units have been settled in cash; prior thereto restricted stock units were settled in shares of common stock upon the termination of the director’s membership on our Board. All accrued dividends related to restricted stock units are also settled in cash upon termination of the director’s membership on our Board.

#### NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION
Non-employee directors currently cannot defer director compensation under the Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan. However, previously deferred amounts remain deferred under the Deferred Compensation Plan until the originally scheduled payment date. Please see the section entitled “Executive Compensation — Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for the 2024 Fiscal Year” for a more fulsome description of the Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan.

Prior to January 1, 2021, the Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan permitted non-employee directors who elected to participate an opportunity to accumulate additional savings for retirement on a tax-deferred basis. These directors could defer in the Deferred Compensation Plan any portion of their cash compensation received for services provided to our Board or its committees, while remaining 100% vested in the deferred funds. We have complete discretion over how the deferred funds are utilized and they represent our unsecured obligation to the participants.

#### 24GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE2025 PROXY STATEMENT

#### 2024 Director Compensation
The following table sets forth a summary of the compensation we paid to our non-employee directors in 2024.

| Name                  |     |         | Fees Earned or 
 Paid in Cash   
 ($)            | Stock Awards(1),(2)($) |         |     | Change inPension Valueand NonqualifiedDeferredCompensationEarnings(3) 
 ($)                                                                   |     |     | Total($) |         |
| Carin M. Barth