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International Business Machines Corporation: meeting of 29 Apr 2025
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
1,828 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the International Business Machines Corporation meeting of 29 Apr 2025. 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
13 nominees; 96.4% of reported votes for; 74 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
14,081 vote records from 396 filers. 8 of the 390 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 6 filers reported this item without a management mark.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
3,208 vote records from 1,783 filers. 102 of the 1,733 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 50 filers reported this item without a management mark.
AUDIT-RELATEDIssuer
Audit-related items (auditor ratification)
1,087 vote records from 390 filers. 12 of the 384 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 6 filers reported this item without a management mark.
COMPENSATIONIssuer
COMPENSATION: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
100 vote records from 24 filers. 0 of the 24 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal to Support Transparency in Lobbying
1,009 vote records from 371 filers. 79 of the 364 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 7 filers reported this item without a management mark.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Hiring/Recruitment Discrimination
995 vote records from 368 filers. 17 of the 361 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 7 filers reported this item without a management mark.
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.
130 vote records from 17 filers. 7 of the 17 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 | No report | 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 | Against |
| ProShares and ProFunds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| John Hancock and Manulife | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Morgan Stanley, Eaton Vance and Calvert | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| 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 | For * | Against |
| Jackson National funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| SEI | For | For | For | For * | 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 | For * | Against |
| Nationwide | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Victory Capital | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| 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 | For * | Against |
| Hartford Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| DWS | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| PIMCO | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Allspring | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| MassMutual | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Harbor Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Virtus | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| VanEck | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Macquarie and Delaware Funds | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Janus Henderson | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Neuberger Berman | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| 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 |
| Dodge & Cox | 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 International Business Machines Corporation meeting?
1,828 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 29 Apr 2025. On say-on-pay, 102 of 1,733 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 International Business Machines Corporation 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 International Business Machines Corporation
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing International Business Machines Corporation with a meeting date within three days of 29 Apr 2025. 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.