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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
_____________
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 15, 2018

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 
 
 
Maryland
001-34766
26-1908763
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

3001 Ocean Drive, Suite 201
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)


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

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (“ARMOUR”) held its 2018 annual meeting of stockholders at 8:00 a.m. (EDT) on May 15, 2018, for the purpose of: (i) electing nine (9) directors to ARMOUR’s Board of Directors until its 2019 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 2018; and (iii) approving, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2017 executive compensation. For more information on the proposals described below, please refer to ARMOUR’s proxy statement dated April 4, 2018. As of the record date of March 23, 2018, there were a total of 41,898,404 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, 38,830,094 shares of common stock, or approximately 92.7% 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 nine (9) directors to ARMOUR’s Board of Directors until its 2019 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
 
The nine (9) 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 2019 and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The voting results for each nominee were as follows:

Nominee
For
Withheld
Broker Non-Votes
 
 
 
 
Scott J. Ulm
21,038,614
893,300
16,898,180
Jeffrey J. Zimmer
21,032,203
899,711
16,898,180
Daniel C. Staton
20,414,559
1,517,355
16,898,180
Marc H. Bell
18,034,630
3,897,284
16,898,180
Carolyn Downey
21,325,616
606,298
16,898,180
Thomas K. Guba
21,296,516
635,398
16,898,180
Robert C. Hain
21,271,692
660,222
16,898,180
John P. Hollihan, III
21,415,030
516,884
16,898,180
Stewart J. Paperin
21,427,842
504,072
16,898,180

Proposal 2 — To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as ARMOUR’s independent registered certified public accountants for fiscal year 2018.

Stockholders voted to ratify the appointment of Deloitte as ARMOUR’s independent registered certified public accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018. The proposal received the following final voting results:

For
Against
Abstain
38,022,586
540,421
267,087

Proposal 3 — To approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2017 executive compensation.

Stockholders voted to approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, ARMOUR’s 2017 executive compensation. The proposal received the following final voting results:

For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Votes
19,969,987
1,656,829
305,118
16,898,180


                    

                        




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 15, 2018    

    
ARMOUR RESIDENTIAL REIT, INC.
 
 
By:
/s/ James R. Mountain
Name: James R. Mountain
Title: Chief Financial Officer