Good morning, welcome to IDEX Corporation's Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Ms. Helmkamp, you may now begin.
Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is 9:00 A.M. Central Time in the U.S., we will now call our annual meeting of stockholders to order. I am Katrina Helmkamp, Chair of the Board of IDEX Corporation, I will serve as chair of this meeting. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you and let you know that we appreciate you joining us this morning. The agenda for today's meeting is posted on the web portal, we will follow the order of that agenda. As a reminder, you may vote now and at any time during the meeting until I declare the polls closed. As is our custom, we will conduct the business portion of our meeting first and answer questions at the end of the meeting.
Before proceeding further, it is my pleasure to introduce to you the company's other Independent Directors present at today's meeting. Mark Beck, Mark Buthman, Carl Christenson, Stephanie Disher, Matthijs Glastra, Lakecia Gunter, and Alejandro Quiroz Centeno. Lisa Anderson, our Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer, and Corporate Secretary, is with us today and will act as secretary of this meeting. Other IDEX Corporation executive officers present at the meeting today are Eric Ashleman, Chief Executive Officer and President, and also Director, Sean Gillen, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tara Tereso, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Health and Science Technologies, and Bill Simmons, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Fluid and Metering Technologies and Fire and Safety Diversified Products. The company's independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, is represented here today by Jim Allegretti, the Client Service Partner responsible for our account.
Mr. Allegretti will be available during the question-and-answer period to respond to appropriate questions. Finally, the company has appointed Broadridge Financial Services to act as Inspector of Election for this meeting. Kathryn Smith from Broadridge is with us today and has taken the oath of Inspector of Election. We will now proceed with the formal business portion of the meeting. Will the Secretary please present the proof of proper notice of this meeting and advise whether or not we have a quorum for this meeting?
Madam Chair, I have a certificate as to the mailing of the required notice of the annual meeting to the company stockholders as of the close of business on March 12th, 2026, the record date for voting at this meeting. This document will be filed with the records of the meeting. As of today, 67,670,642 shares of common stock, representing approximately 91% of the total outstanding shares as of the close of business on the record date, are represented at this meeting virtually in person or by proxy. Accordingly, there is a quorum.
Thank you. We have three items of business today, three management proposals. Each of these proposals is described in detail in the proxy statement made available to stockholders in connection with this meeting. Please note that we will give stockholders an opportunity to comment on the proposals themselves after all proposals have been presented. First, you will vote on the election of 4 Class 1 directors, each to serve a term of three years. The four individuals the board has nominated for election as Class 1 directors are Mark Beck, Carl C hristenson, myself, Katrina Helmkamp, and Alejandro Quiroz. Biographical and other information about the nominees is set forth in the proxy statement made available to stockholders in connection with this meeting. Second, you will vote on a non-binding resolution to approve the compensation of the company's named executive officers.
Third, you will vote to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. Board of directors recommends that stockholders vote for each of the Class 1 directors and for Proposals 2 and 3. We will now open the meeting to comments and questions on the three items of business. If you have a question, or if you wish to comment on any of the three proposals, please submit your comment or question through the web portal. Ms. Secretary, do we have any comments or questions?
Madam Chair, we have no comments or questions.
Thank you. We will now allow for a brief pause to enter any final votes on the proposals. Any stockholder who has not yet voted or wishes to change a vote already cast may do so by clicking on the voting button on the web portal and following the instructions there. If you have already voted by submitting a proxy and do not wish to change your vote, you do not need to take any further action. Now that stockholders have had the opportunity to vote, I declare the polls closed. Ms. Secretary, do you have the preliminary results of the voting from the Judge of Elections?
Yes, Madam Chair. The preliminary results of the voting indicate that each of the director nominees has been elected, the proposal to approve the compensation of the company's named executive officers has been approved, and the proposal to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026 has been approved. As secretary, I will file the results of the voting with the minutes of this meeting. Final voting results will be reported in a current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days after the date of this meeting.
This concludes the formal portion of our annual stockholders meeting. There being no further business to come before this meeting, I declare that the annual meeting is hereby concluded. We will now open the meeting to stockholder comments and questions. Please submit your comments or questions through the web portal. Ms. Secretary, do we have any comments or questions?
No, we have no comments or questions.
Thank you. Once again, I would like to express our appreciation to all of you, our stockholders, our directors, our officers, and our employees for your support during the past year and for your presence at our virtual meeting today.
The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.