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The Williams Companies, Inc.: meeting of 30 Apr 2024
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
1,241 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the The Williams Companies, Inc. meeting of 30 Apr 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
12 nominees; 95.4% of reported votes for; 50 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
10,042 vote records from 362 filers. 1 of the 358 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 filers reported this item without a management mark.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
1,948 vote records from 1,214 filers. 56 of the 1,144 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 70 filers reported this item without a management mark.
5 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)
836 vote records from 360 filers. 12 of the 356 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 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.
48 vote records from 22 filers. 2 of the 22 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.
820 vote records from 350 filers. 63 of the 346 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 4 filers reported this item without a management mark.
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATESecurity holder
Vote on a Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Company Issue a Report Assessing Policy Options Related to...
266 vote records from 137 filers. 90 of the 121 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 16 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.
4 vote records from 4 filers. 4 of the 4 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
How the largest families voted
| Family | 1. Directors | 2. Say-on-pay | 3. Auditor | 6. Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| BlackRock and iShares | For | For | For | Split or no vote |
| Fidelity | For | For | For | No report |
| Dimensional | For | For | For | No report |
| State Street and SPDR | For | For | For | No report |
| American Century | For | For | For | No report |
| Franklin Templeton | For | For | For | No report |
| Invesco | For | For | For | No report |
| Equitable | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Charles Schwab | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Nuveen and TIAA | For | For | For | No report |
| ProShares and ProFunds | For | For | For | No report |
| John Hancock and Manulife | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Morgan Stanley, Eaton Vance and Calvert | For | For | For | No report |
| J.P. Morgan | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Goldman Sachs | For | For | For | No report |
| WisdomTree | For | Against * | For | Split or no vote |
| PGIM and Prudential | For | For | For | Against |
| Jackson National funds | For | Against * | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | For | For | No report |
| SEI | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| T. Rowe Price | For | For | For | No report |
| Thrivent | For | For | For | No report |
| Lincoln Financial | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Voya | For | For | For | No report |
| First Trust | For | For | For | No report |
| Russell Investments | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Nationwide | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Victory Capital | For | For | For | No report |
| Brighthouse Funds | For | For | For | Split or no vote * |
| Guggenheim and Rydex | For | For | For | No report |
| Columbia Threadneedle | For | For | For | No report |
| BNY Mellon | For | Against * | Against * | No report |
| Principal | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Capital Group and American Funds | No report | Split or no vote | No report | No report |
| Pacific Life funds | For | For | For | No report |
| Global X | For | For | For | No report |
| Transamerica | For | For | For | No report |
| Federated Hermes | No report | For | No report | No report |
| AllianceBernstein | For | For | For | No report |
| Hartford Funds | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| DWS | For | For | For | No report |
| PIMCO | For | For | For | No report |
| Allspring | For | For | For | No report |
| MassMutual | For | For | For | No report |
| Harbor Funds | For | For | For | For * |
| Virtus | For | For | For | No report |
| VanEck | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Macquarie and Delaware Funds | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Janus Henderson | For | For | For | No report |
| Neuberger Berman | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Natixis and Loomis Sayles | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Lord Abbett | No report | For | No report | No report |
| Cohen & Steers | For | For | For | Abstain or withhold * |
| Dodge & Cox | For | For | For | No report |
| Baird | No report | For | 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 Williams Companies, Inc. meeting?
1,241 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 30 Apr 2024. On say-on-pay, 56 of 1,144 voted against management (4.9%). One proposal 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 Williams Companies, 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 The Williams Companies, Inc.
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing The Williams Companies, Inc. with a meeting date within three days of 30 Apr 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.