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THE SOUTHERN COMPANY: meeting of 22 May 2024
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
1,434 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the THE SOUTHERN COMPANY meeting of 22 May 2024. Their records fall into 9 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; 94.9% of reported votes for; 53 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
10,523 vote records from 332 filers. 7 of the 329 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
2,896 vote records from 1,407 filers. 63 of the 1,359 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 48 filers reported this item without a management mark.
0 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)
806 vote records from 330 filers. 8 of the 327 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSESIssuer
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
114 vote records from 48 filers. 5 of the 47 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.
59 vote records from 25 filers. 2 of the 25 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCEIssuer
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
722 vote records from 290 filers. 0 of the 287 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 3 filers reported this item without a management mark.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCESecurity holder
Stockholder proposal regarding simple majority vote
715 vote records from 310 filers. 200 of the 309 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer reported this item without a management mark.
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATESecurity holder
Stockholder proposal regarding disclosing short-, medium-, and long-term operational GHG targets
761 vote records from 322 filers. 46 of the 321 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer 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.
93 vote records from 23 filers. 6 of the 23 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
How the largest families voted
| Family | 1. Directors | 2. Say-on-pay | 3. Auditor | 7. Proposal | 8. Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| BlackRock and iShares | For | For | For | No report | Against |
| Fidelity | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Dimensional | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| State Street and SPDR | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| American Century | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Franklin Templeton | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Invesco | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Equitable | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Charles Schwab | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Nuveen and TIAA | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| ProShares and ProFunds | For | For | For | For * | 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 | For * | Against |
| Goldman Sachs | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| WisdomTree | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| PGIM and Prudential | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Jackson National funds | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| SEI | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| T. Rowe Price | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Thrivent | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Lincoln Financial | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Voya | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| First Trust | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Russell Investments | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Nationwide | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| Victory Capital | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| Brighthouse Funds | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Guggenheim and Rydex | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Columbia Threadneedle | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| BNY Mellon | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Principal | For | For | For | For * | 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 | For * | Against |
| Transamerica | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Federated Hermes | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| AllianceBernstein | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Hartford Funds | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * | Against |
| DWS | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| PIMCO | For | For | Against * | For * | For * |
| Allspring | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| MassMutual | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Harbor Funds | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Virtus | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| VanEck | For | For | For | Against | Against |
| Macquarie and Delaware Funds | For | For | For | For * | For * |
| Janus Henderson | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Neuberger Berman | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| American Beacon | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| Natixis and Loomis Sayles | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Lord Abbett | No report | For | No report | No report | No report |
| Cohen & Steers | For | For | For | For * | Against |
| 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 THE SOUTHERN COMPANY meeting?
1,434 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 22 May 2024. On say-on-pay, 63 of 1,359 voted against management (4.6%). 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 THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 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 THE SOUTHERN COMPANY
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing THE SOUTHERN COMPANY with a meeting date within three days of 22 May 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.