THE BUCKLE, INC.

THE BUCKLE, INC.’s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BKE, and its shareholder base combines institutional investors with a substantial individual holding retained by its founder. According to the company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on 22 April 2026 (beneficial-ownership record date 27 March 2026), 51,518,086 shares of common stock were outstanding. That filing names Daniel J. Hirschfeld, the company’s founder and Chairman of the Board, as the largest disclosed shareholder, reporting beneficial ownership of 16,200,000 shares, or 31.4 percent of outstanding common stock. BlackRock, Inc. was the largest institutional holder, with 4,699,335 shares (9.2 percent) per its Form 13F-HR filed 12 February 2026. The Vanguard Group reported 3,970,767 shares (7.8 percent) in a Form 13F-HR filed 29 January 2026; however, Vanguard subsequently filed a Schedule 13G/A on 26 March 2026 stating that, following an internal realignment among its subsidiaries, it no longer has, or is deemed to have, beneficial ownership of these shares, so this reported position may no longer be current. Several current directors and executive officers also hold smaller disclosed stakes in the same filing, including Chief Executive Officer Dennis H. Nelson (2,180,823 shares, 4.2 percent) and Chief Financial Officer Thomas B. Heacock (526,296 shares, 1.0 percent).

Separately, the company’s own registry record, sourced from state-level filings and last synced 9 September 2026, lists only two shareholders on file: Vanguard Group Inc at a reported 15.9 percent and Fidelity Salem Street Trust-Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund at 1.3 percent. These figures appear to derive from an older institutional share count and do not reconcile with the outstanding-share total or percentages disclosed in the 2026 proxy statement, which should be treated as the more current and complete source for beneficial ownership of this NYSE-listed company.

No formal ultimate beneficial owner has been designated for THE BUCKLE, INC., since no ownership threshold has been supplied for this jurisdiction and SEC beneficial-ownership disclosure does not itself designate a UBO. Mr. Hirschfeld’s reported 31.4 percent stake is the largest individual holding disclosed and exceeds thresholds commonly used in other jurisdictions, but this alone does not support a definitive UBO conclusion.

Shareholder disclosure for THE BUCKLE, INC. is best described as major shareholders only: SEC rules require disclosure of beneficial owners of 5 percent or more of outstanding shares, plus the holdings of directors and named executive officers, rather than a complete shareholder register. The most recent verified information is the proxy statement filed 22 April 2026, with a beneficial-ownership record date of 27 March 2026.

THE BUCKLE, INC.’s directors and executive officers are disclosed primarily through its filings with the SEC. According to the company’s definitive proxy statement filed 22 April 2026, twelve directors were nominated to serve until the next annual meeting: Daniel J. Hirschfeld (Chairman of the Board), Dennis H. Nelson (President, Chief Executive Officer and Director), Thomas B. Heacock (Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Director), Hank M. Bounds, Bill L. Fairfield, Bruce L. Hoberman, Michael E. Huss (Audit Committee Chair), Shruti S. Joshi, Angie J. Klein (Nominating, Governance and CSR Committee Chair), John P. Peetz III (Compensation Committee Chair), Karen B. Rhoads and James E. Shada. The same filing names further executive officers who do not sit on the board, including Brady M. Fritz (Secretary), Brett P. Milkie (Senior Vice President of Leasing) and Carissa N. Crocker (Vice President of Men’s Merchandising). None of the sources reviewed disclose the nationality of any director or officer; U.S. proxy-disclosure rules do not require nationality to be reported. Any correspondence address recorded for these individuals in registry data reflects a business or service address only and should not be read as evidence of residence or nationality.

Recent officer changes: Kari G. Smith, formerly Executive Vice President of Stores, and Michelle M. Hoffman, formerly Senior Vice President of Sales, both retired effective 13 February 2026, per the 2026 proxy statement. Scott A. Werth, previously Vice President of Sales and Strategy and a Buckle employee since June 1989, was appointed Senior Vice President of Stores effective 31 March 2026, according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on 9 April 2026.

The company’s underlying registry record, most recently synced 9 September 2026, lists only a small subset of officers and includes several of the directors named above, but it also currently shows Robert Carlberg as an active Vice President; SEC filings indicate Mr. Carlberg’s retirement from his Senior Vice President role was announced in 2021, and he does not appear among the current officers or directors in the 2026 proxy statement. Officer information for this active-status U.S. corporation should therefore be treated as current only, since individual records in ownership and officer registries can persist after a change has already been filed elsewhere.

THE BUCKLE, INC. sits at the top of its own corporate structure; no parent company has been identified for the entity in any source reviewed. The company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026, filed with the SEC, refers throughout to “the Company and its subsidiary” in the singular, and Exhibit 21 to that filing names Buckle Brands, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, as the company’s sole listed subsidiary. This same subsidiary relationship has appeared consistently across the company’s SEC filings for a number of years. The filing does not state an ownership percentage for Buckle Brands, Inc., so this is reported as a direct subsidiary with ownership percentage not disclosed, rather than assumed to be wholly owned.

The group’s verified structure is limited to these two entities, both based in the United States (Nebraska), with no verified sister companies, additional subsidiaries or branches identified from official sources. No recent acquisitions, disposals or reorganisations affecting this structure were identified.

Corporate-linkage information for this company is best described as subsidiaries only: SEC filings confirm one direct subsidiary but do not report any parent-company relationship, since none is disclosed to exist. The most recent verified information is drawn from the Form 10-K covering the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026, filed with the SEC.