0001562180-23-007935.txt : 20231127 0001562180-23-007935.hdr.sgml : 20231127 20231127165925 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001562180-23-007935 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20231123 FILED AS OF DATE: 20231127 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20231127 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Hampton Joseph B. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001788855 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16681 FILM NUMBER: 231440893 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 700 MARKET STREET CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SPIRE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001126956 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION [4924] IRS NUMBER: 742976504 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MO FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 700 MARKET STREET CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 BUSINESS PHONE: 3143420500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 700 MARKET STREET CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LACLEDE GROUP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20001024 4 1 primarydocument.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0508 4 2023-11-23 false 0001126956 SPIRE INC SR 0001788855 Hampton Joseph B. 700 MARKET STREET ST. LOUIS MO 63101 false true false false President, AL & MS false Common Stock 2023-11-23 4 F false 113.00 60.63 D 7339.00 D Common Stock 2023-11-23 4 A false 1025.00 60.63 A 8364.00 D Common Stock 2023-11-23 4 F false 302.00 60.63 D 8062.00 D Common Stock 5188.594 I Held in 401(k) Phantom Stock 2023-11-23 4 A false 440.00 60.63 A Common Stock 440.00 1492.00 D Phantom Stock 2023-11-23 4 F false 15.00 60.63 D Common Stock 15.00 1477.00 D Represents the number of shares withheld for the payment of taxes incident to the vesting of 385 shares of time-vested restricted stock. Represents performance contingent restricted units that vested and settled in stock based on performance metrics not tied to the market price of the Company's stock. Represents the number of shares withheld for the payment of taxes incident to the vesting of 1,025 performance contingent restricted units. Shares held in Company stock fund of 401(k) plan as reported by trustee as of November 24, 2023. Represents phantom stock vesting to the reporting person pursuant to his election to defer into his deferred income plan account 440 shares of vested performance contingent stock. Each share of phantom stock is the economic equivalent of one share of Spire Inc. common stock. Shares of phantom stock are payable for 15 years commencing 6 months following the reporting person's separation from employment. Represents the number of shares of phantom stock withheld for the payment of taxes. /s/Courtney Vomund as attorney in fact for Hampton, Joseph B. 2023-11-27 EX-24 2 hampton.txt POWER OF ATTORNEY Exhibit 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of S.P. Rasche, M.C. Darrell, E.L. Theroff and S.W. Moore, signing individually, the undersigneds true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) complete, execute for and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Form ID on behalf of the undersigned for CIK, CCC and Password codes to use to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 on behalf of the undersigned; (2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigneds capacity as a reporting person of Spire Inc. (the Company), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder (the Act); (3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-facts discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-facts substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigneds responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Act. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed this 16th day of September 2019. /s/ Joseph B. Hampton