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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 the shareholders. A copy of the Equity Ownership and Retention Policy for Employees can be found on the Company’s website at www.occfiber.com/investor-relations/under “Corporate Governance”.The President and Chief Executive Officer and the Compensation Committee evaluate relative to current best practices, and may consider changing from time to time, which members of the leadership team and other employees will be eligible for future long-term equity incentive grants and be subject to the Equity Ownership and Retention Policy for Employees.

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Pay versus Performance

As required by Section 953(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, and Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, which was adopted by the SEC in August 2022, we are providing the following information regarding the relationship between compensation actually paid to our principal executive officer (“PEO”) and non-PEO named executive officer (“NEO”) and certain financial performance of the Company for the fiscal years listed below.

|      | Fiscal 
 Year   |   |    Summary Compensation 
 Table Total for PEO (1) |     |   |  Compensation 
 Actually Paid 
    to PEO (2) |     |   | Summary Compensation 
      Table Total for 
          Non-PEO NEO 
                  (3) |     |   |  Compensation 
 Actually Paid 
    to Non-PEO 
       NEO (4) |     |   |           Value of Initial 
                 Fixed $100 
                 Investment 
 Based on Total Shareholder 
                 Return (5) |     |   | Net Income 
     (Loss) |   |
|:-----|:-------|:--|------------------------:|:----|:--|--------------:|:----|:--|---------------------:|:----|:--|--------------:|:----|:--|---------------------------:|:----|:--|-----------:|:--|
| 2024 |        | $ |                 710,873 |     | $ |       669,989 |     | $ |              439,366 |     | $ |       418,834 |     | $ |                      63.47 |     | $ | (4,210,211 | ) |
| 2023 |        |   |                 489,661 |     |   |       452,145 |     |   |              320,911 |     |   |