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Investments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
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Investments Investments

The Plan’s investments are held in a trust administered by the Trustee. A complete listing of the Plan’s investments as of December 31, 2025 is included in the Supplemental Schedule—Schedule H, Line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year).

Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts

Capital One's Stable Value Fund from Invesco (the “Fund”) invests primarily in synthetic GICs. These contracts meet the fully benefit-responsive investment contract criteria and therefore are reported at contract value.

A synthetic GIC includes a wrapper contract, which is an agreement for the wrap issuer, such as a bank or insurance company, to make payments to the Fund in certain circumstances. With synthetic GICs, the underlying investments are owned by the Fund and held in trust for Plan participants. The wrapper contract amortizes the realized and unrealized gains and losses on the underlying fixed income investments, typically over the duration of the investment, through adjustments to the future interest crediting rate. The issuer of the wrapper contract provides assurance that the adjustments to the interest crediting rate do not result in a future interest crediting rate that is less than zero. An interest crediting rate of less than zero would result in a loss of principal or accrued interest. The key factors that influence future interest crediting rates for a wrapper contract include the level of market interest rates, the amount and timing of participant contributions, transfers and withdrawals into and out of the wrapper contract, the investment returns generated by the fixed income investments that back the wrapper contract and the duration of the underlying investments backing the wrapper contract.

Certain circumstances may limit the Plan’s ability to execute transactions of the Fund at contract value with the contract issuer. These circumstances include termination of the Plan, a material adverse change to the provisions of the Plan, the Company making an election to withdraw from a wrapper contract in order to switch to a different investment provider, or the terms of a successor Plan (in the event of spin-off or sale of a division) do not meet the wrapper contract issuer’s underwriting criteria for the issuance of a clone wrapper contract. Examples of events that would permit a wrapper contract issuer to terminate a wrapper contract upon short notice include the Plan’s loss of its qualified status, uncured material breaches of responsibilities or material and adverse changes to the provisions of the Plan. If one of these events occurred, the wrapper contract issuer could terminate the wrapper contract at the market value of the underlying investments.

The Plan administrator believes that the events noted above that limit the Plan’s ability to execute transactions at contract value are unlikely to occur.