# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000720672
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-134887
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 6999
**Document Hash:** 6dda9e0d89b1d821436cd423c46463d6
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-134887.hdr.sgml**: 20250604

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-134887

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250604

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250604

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250604

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000720672
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SECURITY BROKERS, DEALERS & FLOTATION COMPANIES [6211]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 431273600
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-09305
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251023158

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ATTN: JAMES G. LASCHOBER
- **STREET 2:** 501 N. BROADWAY
- **CITY:** ST. LOUIS
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 63102-2102
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 314-342-2000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ATTN: JAMES G. LASCHOBER
- **STREET 2:** 501 N. BROADWAY
- **CITY:** ST. LOUIS
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 63102-2102

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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, DC 20549

### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT

#### Pursuant To Section 13 OR 15(d)

#### of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

#### Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 4, 2025

## STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.

#### (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware** | **001-09305** | **43-1273600** |
| **(State of**<br> **incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br> **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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#### 501 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2188

#### (Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
(314) 342-2000

#### (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

#### Not Applicable

#### (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Title of Each Class** | **Trading**<br> **Symbol(s)** | **Name of Each Exchange**<br> **on Which Registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.15 par value per share | SF | New York Stock Exchange |
| Depository Shares, each representing 1/1,000th interest in a share of 6.25% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series B | SF-PB | New York Stock Exchange |
| Depository Shares, each representing 1/1,000th interest in a share of 6.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series C | SF-PC | New York Stock Exchange |
| Depository Shares, each representing 1/1,000th interest in a share of 4.50% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D | SF-PD | New York Stock Exchange |
| 5.20% Senior Notes due 2047 | SFB | New York Stock Exchange |

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 5.07** | **Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.**  |

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The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Stifel Financial Corp. (the "Company") was held on June 4, 2025 to (i) elect eleven members of the Board of Directors; (ii) approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers of the Company, as disclosed in the Company's Proxy Statement; and (iii) ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025.

As of April 7, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 103,033,074 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote. At the Annual Meeting, 97,820,030 shares of common stock were represented in person or by proxy, constituting a quorum.

The final results for the proposals voted on at the Annual Meeting are set forth below:

*Proposal 1* – Election of Directors:

The Company's shareholders elected eleven directors to hold office until the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders or until their respective successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The following table shows the results of the shareholders' votes:

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|  | **For** | **Withhold<br>Authority** | **Abstentions** | **Broker<br>Non-votes** |
|  Adam T. Berlew | 88152844 | 337192 | – | 9329994 |
|  Maryam S. Brown | 88124327 | 365709 | – | 9329994 |
|  Michael W. Brown | 85437551 | 3052485 | – | 9329994 |
|  Lisa L. Carnoy | 87541983 | 948053 | – | 9329994 |
|  Robert E. Grady | 83681564 | 4808472 | – | 9329994 |
|  James P. Kavanaugh | 87536999 | 953037 | – | 9329994 |
|  Ronald J. Kruszewski | 84267707 | 4222329 | – | 9329994 |
|  Maura A. Markus | 79751623 | 8738413 | – | 9329994 |
|  David A. Peacock | 83963766 | 4526270 | – | 9329994 |
|  Thomas W. Weisel | 87304433 | 1185603 | – | 9329994 |
|  Michael J. Zimmerman | 85513662 | 2976374 | – | 9329994 |

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*Proposal 2 –* To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the named executive officers of the Company, as disclosed in the Proxy Statement:

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| **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-votes** |
| 85449454 | 2850576 | 190006 | 9329994 |

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*Proposal 3* – To ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-votes** |
| 97603454 | 131917 | 84659 | N/A |

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#### SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  |  | STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP. |
| Date: June 4, 2025 | By: | /s/ James M. Marischen |
|  | Name: | James M. Marischen |
|  | Title: | *Chief Financial Officer* |

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