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8-K

Armour Residential REIT, Inc. (ARR)

8-K 2025-05-01 For: 2025-05-01
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) May 1, 2025

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Maryland 001-34766 26-1908763
(State or Other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation) (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 3001 Ocean Drive, Suite 201
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Vero Beach, Florida 32963
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(772) 617-4340

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

n/a

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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):

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class Trading symbols Name of Exchange on which registered
Preferred Stock, 7.00% Series C Cumulative Redeemable ARR-PRC New York Stock Exchange
Common Stock, $0.001 par value ARR New York Stock Exchange

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 a 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 ☐

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

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (“ARMOUR”) held its Annual Meeting at 8:00 a.m. (EDT) on May 1, 2025, for the purpose of: (i) electing eight (8) directors to ARMOUR’s Board of Directors until its 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; (ii) ratifying the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) as ARMOUR’s independent registered certified public accountants for fiscal year 2025; and (iii) approving, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2024 executive compensation. As of the record date of March 7, 2025, there were a total of 79,968,016 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. At the Annual Meeting, 55,613,464 shares of Common Stock, or approximately 69.54% of the shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, were represented in person or by proxy; therefore, a quorum was present.

Proposal 1 — To elect eight (8) directors to ARMOUR’s Board of Directors until its 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

The eight (8) nominees proposed by ARMOUR’s Board of Directors were each elected to serve as a director until ARMOUR’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026 and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The voting results for each nominee were as follows.

Nominee For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes
Scott J. Ulm 31,291,474 1,274,450 297,736 22,749,804
Daniel C. Staton 29,127,383 3,446,693 289,584 22,749,804
Marc H. Bell 26,658,777 5,919,759 285,124 22,749,804
Z. Jamie Behar 29,228,659 3,339,176 295,825 22,749,804
Carolyn Downey 28,374,164 4,207,958 281,538 22,749,804
Robert C. Hain 30,128,881 2,446,207 288,572 22,749,804
John P. Hollihan, III 30,912,463 1,661,015 290,182 22,749,804
Stewart J. Paperin 31,007,982 1,572,963 282,715 22,749,804

Proposal 2 — To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as ARMOUR’s independent registered certified public accountants for fiscal year 2025.

Stockholders voted to ratify the appointment of Deloitte as ARMOUR’s independent registered certified public accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The proposal received the following final voting results:

For Against Abstain
54,008,343 916,357 688,764

Proposal 3 — To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2024 executive compensation.

Stockholders voted to approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2024 executive compensation. The proposal received the following final voting results:

For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes
30,458,051 1,831,404 574,205 22,749,804

SIGNATURES

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.

Dated: May 1, 2025

ARMOUR RESIDENTIAL REIT, INC.
By: /s/ Gordon M. Harper
Name: Gordon M. Harper
Title: Chief Financial Officer