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American Century

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Vote records reported
518,739year to 30 June 2024
Against management
12.8%64,020 of 501,596 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
61.9%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
30.4%for, of for + against + abstain
84.2% for12.9% against2.9% other12.8% against management512,792 votes

foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management

American Century reported 518,739 vote records for the year to 30 June 2024. It marked 12.8% of its votes as cast against management (64,020 of 501,596), 4.2 percentage points above the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 8.5%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 11.8%. The two figures differ when the votes against management fall on larger or smaller holdings than the rest.

On pay and on shareholder proposals: it voted for 61.9% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 89.0%) and it voted for 30.4% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median of the fund families tracked here: 35.1%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (33.0% of 19,466), COMPENSATION (28.8% of 57,457) and SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (28.0% of 1,384).

It reported 4.92 billion shares out on loan at record dates, 4.67% of the shares it held or had lent across the meetings it reported. Shares on loan are not voted.

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 60 families with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2024This familyMedian familyAll filers pooled
Against-management share12.8%8.5%10.2%
Say-on-pay support rate61.9%89.0%84.6%
Shareholder-proposal support rate30.4%35.1%37.0%
Shares on loan, share of shares held4.67%1.34%0.08%
Largest families, year to 30 June 2026Against managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Vanguard20.1%94.1%42.0%
BlackRock and iShares7.5%88.3%11.9%
Fidelity6.0%94.7%27.6%
Dimensional16.4%78.9%57.4%
State Street and SPDR16.9%77.1%50.4%

Votes by category

Filers choose one or more categories for each vote, so a vote can appear in more than one row. Category names are printed as Form N-PX defines them.

Category (as the form names it)VotesForAgainstAgainst managementSplit
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS260,875227,62222,04511.2%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES19,52610,4466,41833.0%
AUDIT-RELATED31,08230,3017482.0%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS4400.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1,7321,11729428.0%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS3,6663,11454014.4%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE52,08246,1835,89911.1%
COMPENSATION58,02140,64717,12328.8%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE93,96384,9358,1387.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE3,3731,0002,3684.6%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE2,0038261,1773.2%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION2,1558561,2993.6%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES5,1051,9843,1219.6%
OTHER5,9063,6302,1996.4%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 2024518,73912.8%61.9%30.4%
year to 30 June 2025553,92311.8%56.6%31.3%
year to 30 June 2026600,54510.2%73.3%32.0%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, American Century voted against management on 1,001 of the 2,428 it marked either way (41.2%) in the year to 30 June 2024. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 4 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 1,487 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, American Century voted for 496 (33.4%). The 40 at the companies with the most reporting filers are listed. Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Disclose All Material Scope 3 GHG Emissions
NVIDIA Corporation26 Jun 2024Advisory approval of a stockholder proposal to replace the supermajority voting provisions in our charter...
Merck & Co., Inc.28 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to act by written consent
AbbVie Inc.3 May 2024Stockholder Proposal - to Implement Simple Majority Vote
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.22 May 2024Shareholder Proposal: Simple Majority Vote.
The Walt Disney Company3 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Walmart Inc.5 Jun 2024Workplace Safety & Violence Review
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Amend clawback policy
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Independent Board chair
McDonald's Corporation22 May 2024Advisory Vote on Poultry Welfare Disclosure.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company7 May 2024Adopt Share Retention Policy For Senior Executives
ConocoPhillips14 May 2024Simple Majority Vote.
Texas Instruments Incorporated25 Apr 2024Stockholder proposal to permit a combined 15% of stockholders to call a special meeting.
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Public Report on Climate Lobbying
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Adoption of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets
American Tower Corporation22 May 2024To consider a stockholder proposal, if properly presented, regarding the ownership threshold required to...
United Parcel Service, Inc.2 May 2024To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.
Stryker Corporation9 May 2024Shareholder Proposal on Transparency in Political Spending.
Deere & Company28 Feb 2024Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder ratification of golden parachutes
ServiceNow, Inc.23 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding simple majority vote.
Gilead Sciences, Inc.8 May 2024To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting that the Board adopt a policy requiring the Company's named...
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION2 May 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting Reduction in Threshold to Call Special Stockholder Meetings
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.24 Apr 2024Shareholder Proposal Regarding Pay Equity Reporting
Booking Holdings Inc.4 Jun 2024Stockholder proposal requesting a non-binding stockholder vote to amend the Company's clawback policy.
DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION9 May 2024Adopt Share Retention Policy For Senior Executives
Prologis, Inc.9 May 2024Vote on a stockholder proposal titled "Simple Majority Vote."
Emerson Electric Co.6 Feb 2024Shareholder Proposal to Implement a Simple Majority Vote Requirement in the Company's Governing Documents.
Chubb Limited16 May 2024Shareholder proposal on pay gap reporting
Chubb Limited16 May 2024Shareholder proposal on Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions reporting
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated15 May 2024Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding special shareholder meeting improvement.
Analog Devices, Inc.13 Mar 2024Shareholder proposal regarding simple majority voting
WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY, INC.3 Jun 2024To vote on a stockholder proposal entitled, "Adopt a Shareholder Right to Call a Special Shareholder Meeting"
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY22 May 2024Stockholder proposal regarding simple majority vote
DOW INC.11 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
The Sherwin-Williams Company17 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal to adopt a simple majority vote.
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.16 May 2024Stockholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
FORD MOTOR COMPANY9 May 2024Relating to Consideration of a Recapitalization Plan to Provide That All of the Company's Outstanding...
General Mills, Inc.26 Sep 2023Shareholder Proposal - Adopt a Shareholder Right to Call a Special Shareholder Meeting.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.3 May 2024A non-binding stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, for stockholder ratification of...

Shares on loan

American Century reported 4.92 billion shares on loan at record dates against 100.25 billion shares voted: 4.67% of the two together. Median family: 1.34%. Shares lent out at the record date cannot be voted by the lender, which is why Form N-PX asks for the figure. More on lending and votes.

Questions

How did American Century vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2024 American Century reported 16,871 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 10,446 were for (61.9%), 6,418 against and 7 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 1,001 of the 2,428 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 4 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does American Century vote against management?

12.8% of the time in the year to 30 June 2024: 64,020 of the 501,596 votes it marked as for or against management. Form N-PX asks each filer to state, vote by vote, whether the vote was for or against management's recommendation; this figure counts those marks.

Did American Century support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 2,502 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2024 and voted for 141 of them (5.6%). Across every category it voted for 30.4% of security-holder proposals. Filers choose the category for each vote, so the same proposal can sit in different categories in different filings.

Is this the result of the meetings?

No. Form N-PX shows how this filer voted the shares it held. It does not show how other shareholders voted or whether a proposal was approved. Companies report certified results separately, on Form 8-K.

Where does the data come from?

From the Form N-PX filings of the registrants and managers grouped under this family on the SEC's EDGAR system, read as filed. The SEC does not verify the contents. Amended filings (N-PX/A) replace the filings they amend. Data on this page runs through 23 Sep 2026.

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Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings of the filers grouped under American Century, read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.