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Applied Materials, Inc.: meeting of 7 Mar 2024
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
1,624 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the Applied Materials, Inc. meeting of 7 Mar 2024. Their records fall into 7 items below, in ballot order: management items first, then proposals from security holders. Each bar shows how the reporting filers split; it is not the result of the meeting.
foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management
Items
DIRECTOR ELECTIONSIssuer
Director elections
10 nominees; 97.4% of reported votes for; 42 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
12,386 vote records from 451 filers. 1 of the 447 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 filers reported this item without a management mark.
2 filers reported share counts too large to be the holding described. Those figures are left out of the share split below; the counts of filers include them. How that is decided
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
2,863 vote records from 1,586 filers. 91 of the 1,541 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 45 filers reported this item without a management mark.
8 filers reported share counts too large to be the holding described. No share split is published for this item. How that is decided
AUDIT-RELATEDIssuer
Audit-related items (auditor ratification)
1,239 vote records from 448 filers. 10 of the 444 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 filers reported this item without a management mark.
2 filers reported share counts too large to be the holding described. No share split is published for this item. How that is decided
COMPENSATIONIssuer
COMPENSATION: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
68 vote records from 32 filers. 3 of the 31 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer reported this item without a management mark.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Shareholder proposal requesting that Applied Materials prepare a report disclosing Applied Materials'...
1,192 vote records from 432 filers. 68 of the 429 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
2 filers reported share counts too large to be the holding described. No share split is published for this item. How that is decided
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSIONSecurity holder
Shareholder proposal requesting that Applied Materials report on quantitative median and adjusted pay gaps...
1,190 vote records from 431 filers. 89 of the 427 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 filers reported this item without a management mark.
2 filers reported share counts too large to be the holding described. No share split is published for this item. How that is decided
Several categoriesSecurity holder
Shareholder proposals (not separable from the filings)
Filers described these proposals in wordings that could not be matched to one another, so they are shown together.
34 vote records from 13 filers. 5 of the 13 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
How the largest families voted
| Family | 1. Directors | 2. Say-on-pay | 3. Auditor | 5. Proposal | 6. Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| BlackRock and iShares | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Fidelity | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Dimensional | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| State Street and SPDR | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| American Century | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Franklin Templeton | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Invesco | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Equitable | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Charles Schwab | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Nuveen and TIAA | For | For | For | Against | For * |
| ProShares and ProFunds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| John Hancock and Manulife | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Morgan Stanley, Eaton Vance and Calvert | For | Against * | For | For * | For * |
| J.P. Morgan | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Goldman Sachs | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| WisdomTree | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| PGIM and Prudential | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Jackson National funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| SEI | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| T. Rowe Price | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Thrivent | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Lincoln Financial | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Voya | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| First Trust | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Russell Investments | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Nationwide | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Victory Capital | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| Brighthouse Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Guggenheim and Rydex | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Columbia Threadneedle | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| BNY Mellon | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Principal | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Capital Group and American Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Pacific Life funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Global X | For | For | For | No report | No report |
| MFS | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Transamerica | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Federated Hermes | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| AllianceBernstein | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Hartford Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| DWS | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| PIMCO | For | Against * | Against * | For * | For * |
| Allspring | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| MassMutual | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Harbor Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Virtus | For | Against * | For | Against | For * |
| VanEck | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Macquarie and Delaware Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Janus Henderson | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Neuberger Berman | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| American Beacon | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| Natixis and Loomis Sayles | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Lord Abbett | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Cohen & Steers | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Harris Associates and Oakmark | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Baird | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
* against management. A family's position is the way most of its reported shares were voted across its filers; "split" means no single position led. "No report" means none of the family's filers listed the item.
Questions
How did large funds vote at the Applied Materials, Inc. meeting?
1,624 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 7 Mar 2024. On say-on-pay, 91 of 1,541 voted against management (5.9%). 2 proposals from security holders could be told apart in the filings. The family table lists each of the largest families item by item.
Is this the meeting result?
No. These are the votes of funds and managers that file Form N-PX, counted by filer and by the shares they reported. The certified result, which includes every shareholder, is reported by Applied Materials, Inc. on Form 8-K.
Why are director elections shown as counts only?
Director records name the nominee. This site does not publish pages or rows about individuals, so for director elections it keeps the number of nominees and the split of votes and discards the wording.
Every meeting on file for Applied Materials, Inc.
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing Applied Materials, Inc. with a meeting date within three days of 7 Mar 2024. Proposal titles are the most common wording among filers and are replaced by the SEC category where a wording could name a person. Not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026.