The same form, the same field, a different meaning: eight distances side by side
A proxy statement Huntington Ingalls Industries filed on 20 March 2026. Its date field holds 31 December 2025, the fiscal year end, rather than the date of the meeting.
Filing key facts
- CompanyHUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. (HII)
- FormProxy statement (DEF 14A)
- ExchangeNYSE
- Industry (SIC)Ship & Boat Building & Repairing
- Filing date2026-03-20
- Period2025-12-31
- Accession no.0001501585-26-000014
Key points
- Huntington Ingalls Industries filed this proxy statement on 20 March 2026.
- The date field holds 31 December 2025, the fiscal year end, rather than the meeting date.
- The document states the meeting is on 29 April 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, with no physical location.
- The record date for voting is 5 March 2026.
1The same field holding different things
In the previous article the date field of a proxy statement held the date of the meeting. Here it holds the end of the fiscal year. Both are Form DEF 14A.
A field name does not settle what a field contains. For this company the meeting date appears only in the body of the document, not in the date field. No venue is provided; the meeting is held online only.
2The eight distances
| Article | Form | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft (earnings release) | 8-K | 0 days |
| Meta (notes offering completed) | 8-K | 4 days (2 business days) |
| CACI (agreement amended) | 8-K | 10 days (5 business days) |
| Pfizer (quarterly report) | 10-Q | 37 days |
| IBM (annual report) | 10-K | 55 days |
| Super Micro (annual report) | 10-K | 62 days |
| Amazon (proxy statement) | DEF 14A | minus 41 days |
| This record (proxy statement) | DEF 14A | date field holds the fiscal year end |
3What a reader has to check
Distance is a property of the form, and each form means something different by it. An 8-K lands beside the event, a quarterly report a month later, an annual report two months later, and a proxy statement before the meeting it announces. What the date field points to is not guaranteed to be consistent even within one form.
One aside: the address given in this proxy statement is 4101 Washington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia. The same address survives in the legacy line of a carrier contract that began in 1998.
Why it matters
Systems that order disclosures chronologically go wrong if every date field is read as an event date. The design has to pair the form type with what the document itself states.
FAQ
Why does one form use its date field two different ways?
How can the meeting date be established reliably?
What does no physical location mean?
Sources (primary)
This article is an independent organization based on the U.S. SEC official disclosures below. Always verify the exact, latest details with the original filing.
- SEC EDGAR (filing index)
- Primary document (original)
- Accession no.：0001501585-26-000014