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International Business Machines Corporation: meeting of 28 Apr 2026
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
1,911 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the International Business Machines Corporation meeting of 28 Apr 2026. Their records fall into 10 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; 94.4% of reported votes for; 82 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
16,085 vote records from 413 filers. 5 of the 412 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer reported this item without a management mark.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
3,303 vote records from 1,894 filers. 96 of the 1,835 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 59 filers reported this item without a management mark.
AUDIT-RELATEDIssuer
Audit-related items (auditor ratification)
1,233 vote records from 409 filers. 21 of the 408 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer 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.
1,350 vote records from 421 filers. 139 of the 416 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 5 filers reported this item without a management mark.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCESecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
1,173 vote records from 386 filers. 216 of the 383 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCESecurity holder
Amend Stock Ownership Guidelines for Outside Directors
1,132 vote records from 387 filers. 28 of the 385 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 2 filers reported this item without a management mark.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Discrimination in Charitable Support
1,117 vote records from 384 filers. 15 of the 382 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 2 filers reported this item without a management mark.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Al Bias
891 vote records from 321 filers. 12 of the 318 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUESSecurity holder
Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on AI Bias
232 vote records from 89 filers. 6 of the 89 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
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.
230 vote records from 25 filers. 8 of the 25 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 | 7. Proposal | 8. Proposal | 9. Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| BlackRock and iShares | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Fidelity | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Dimensional | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| State Street and SPDR | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| American Century | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Franklin Templeton | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Invesco | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Equitable | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Charles Schwab | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Nuveen and TIAA | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| ProShares and ProFunds | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| John Hancock and Manulife | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Morgan Stanley, Eaton Vance and Calvert | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| J.P. Morgan | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Goldman Sachs | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| WisdomTree | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| PGIM and Prudential | For | For | For | For * | For * | Against | Against | Against |
| Jackson National funds | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| SEI | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| T. Rowe Price | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Thrivent | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Lincoln Financial | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Voya | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| First Trust | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Russell Investments | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Nationwide | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Victory Capital | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Brighthouse Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against * | Against * | Against * | Against * |
| Guggenheim and Rydex | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Columbia Threadneedle | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| BNY Mellon | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Principal | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Capital Group and American Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Pacific Life funds | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Global X | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| MFS | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Transamerica | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Federated Hermes | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| AllianceBernstein | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Hartford Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| DWS | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| PIMCO | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Allspring | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| MassMutual | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Virtus | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| VanEck | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Macquarie and Delaware Funds | No report | For | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Janus Henderson | No report | For | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Neuberger Berman | For | For | For | Against | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Natixis and Loomis Sayles | For | For | For | For * | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Dodge & Cox | No report | For | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Harris Associates and Oakmark | No report | For | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Baird | No report | For | No report | No report | No report | 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?
1,911 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 28 Apr 2026. On say-on-pay, 96 of 1,835 voted against management (5.2%). 5 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 28 Apr 2026. 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.