STELLAR BANCORP INC. 2024-2025 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To elect five Class III directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company until the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders; and each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal: Frances H. Jeter

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Frances H. Jeter”): 33,524,107 for, 1,499,758 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 96% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 16,205,783 for, 482,973 withheld, 1 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect five Class III directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company until the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders; and each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal: Laura D. Bellows

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Laura D. Bellows”): 34,114,015 for, 909,850 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 16,513,248 for, 175,509 withheld, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect five Class III directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company until the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders; and each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal: Reagan A. Reaud

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Reagan A. Reaud”): 24,346,003 for, 10,677,862 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 70% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 9,991,751 for, 6,696,986 withheld, 20 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect five Class III directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company until the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders; and each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal: Robert R. Franklin, Jr.

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Robert R. Franklin, Jr.”): 33,582,434 for, 1,441,431 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 96% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 16,253,363 for, 435,393 withheld, 1 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect five Class III directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company until the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders; and each until their respective successor or successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal: Steven F. Retzloff

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Steven F. Retzloff”): 33,276,920 for, 1,746,945 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 95% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 16,198,826 for, 489,930 withheld, 1 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve an amendment to the Company's Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation (the "Charter Amendment") to provide for the phase out of the classified structure of our Board of Directors, a copy of which is attached as Appendix A to the proxy statement;

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. An amendment to the Company's Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation to provide for the phase out of the classified structure of the Company's Board of Directors”): 34,284,089 for, 670,633 against — failed, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07). This item required more than a simple majority of votes cast — see the filing.

Reported outcome: Not approved, in the filing’s own words: “Proposal 2 – The shareholders of the Company did not approve an amendment to the Company's Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation to provide for the phase out of the classified structure of the Company's Board of Directors:”
A stricter vote than a majority of the votes cast may have applied to this item; the filing does not state it.
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 70 asset managers below reported 16,651,104 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve the Amended and Restated Stellar Bancorp, Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan, a copy of which is attached as Appendix B to the proxy statement;

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. The Amended and Restated Stellar Bancorp, Inc”): 33,177,241 for, 1,730,969 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Proposal 3 – The shareholders of the Company approved the Amended and Restated Stellar Bancorp, Inc. 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan:”
Support: 95% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 70 asset managers below reported 15,828,873 for, 764,987 against, 57,800 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To conduct an advisory, non-binding vote regarding the compensation paid to our named executive officers as disclosed in the accompanying proxy statement ("Say-On-Pay");

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 46 managers: 9,019,989 for, 967,011 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 84 managers: 6,668,321 for, 1,226,705 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To conduct an advisory, non-binding vote regarding the compensation paid to our named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement ("Say-On-Pay").

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 27 managers: 6,661,936 for, 2,724 against, 0 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 78 managers: 4,537,542 for, 95,253 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: Advisory Vote to Ratify Named Executive Officers' Compensation

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“4. On a nonbinding advisory basis, a proposal approving the compensation of the Company's named executive officers”): 32,898,057 for, 2,050,358 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Proposal 4 – The shareholders of the Company adopted, on a nonbinding advisory basis, a proposal approving the compensation of the Company's named executive officers by the votes set forth in the table below:”
Support: 94% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 1 managers: 37,653 for.

Institutional-manager reports, all 4 managers: 9,234 for, 15 against.

Description as filed by funds: To ratify the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025; and

STELLAR BANCORP INC.’s own tally for this item (“5. The appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025”): 41,256,480 for, 2,974,237 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed May 22, 2025 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Proposal 5 – The shareholders of the Company ratified the appointment of Crowe LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the year ending December 31, 2025 by the votes set forth in the table below:”
Support: 93% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 71 asset managers below reported 16,513,767 for, 175,546 against, 0 abstained.

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