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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 100334

AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC.

fund voting report, part of American Century

Vote records reported
7,024year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.0%491 of 6,986 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
82.0%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
10.4%for, of for + against + abstain
86.6% for10.3% against3.1% other7.0% against management7,001 votes

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

AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. reported 7,024 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 7.0% of its votes as cast against management (491 of 6,986), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 7.4%. 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 82.0% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 10.4% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in COMPENSATION (32.4% of 207), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (28.1% of 57) and SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (17.4% of 581).

It reported 31.7 million shares out on loan at record dates, 0.71% 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 1,241 fund registrants with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2026This filerMedian fund registrantAll filers pooled
Against-management share7.0%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate82.0%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate10.4%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.71%0.00%3.12%
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 ELECTIONS4,7554,513595.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES5814509917.4%
AUDIT-RELATED60460400.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES58371928.1%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS171610.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE131120914.5%
COMPENSATION2071268132.4%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE39422616815.7%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE12241181.6%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE524483.8%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION654613.2%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES21352080.9%
OTHER101not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20247,6007.9%79.3%15.6%
year to 30 June 20257,2837.7%76.3%17.3%
year to 30 June 20267,0247.0%82.0%10.4%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. voted against management on 73 of the 317 it marked either way (23.0%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 171 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. voted for 15 (8.8%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Analog Devices, Inc.11 Mar 2026To consider a shareholder proposal
Boston Scientific Corporation30 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal titled "Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting."
Snowflake Inc.29 Jun 2026To consider and vote on, if properly presented at the meeting, a non-binding stockholder proposal...
Cintas Corporation28 Oct 2025A shareholder proposal regarding support for shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
AppLovin Corporation3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by class of shares
Airbnb, Inc.5 Jun 2026Dual-class sunset; and
Workday, Inc.16 Jun 2026To consider and vote upon a stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on share class.
Regions Financial Corporation6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Relating to Special Shareholder Meeting.
ON Semiconductor Corporation14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting
HubSpot, Inc.15 Jun 2026A stockholder proposal to change the Company's Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws to allow 10% holders of...
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.5 May 2026Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation
Five Below, Inc.16 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that provisions in the Company's governance documents requiring greater...

Shares on loan

AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. reported 31.7 million shares on loan at record dates against 4.44 billion shares voted: 0.71% of the two together. Median fund registrant: 0.00%. 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.

Fund series in this filing

7 series reported votes. A vote record can list several series. Series with 500 or more vote records have their own page.

SeriesVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Balanced Fund1,3674.6%92.4%10.4%
Large Cap Equity Fund1,3674.6%92.4%10.4%
Small Cap Growth Fund1,14314.1%58.3%33.3%
Growth Fund9168.7%84.4%11.4%
Heritage Fund8398.1%81.3%30.8%
Ultra Fund7503.9%91.2%8.2%
Select Fund6424.7%91.3%6.2%

The filings

These figures are read from the filer's own Form N-PX. If a vote on this page looks wrong, the filing is the record: a dispute about a filed vote is a matter for the filer, and an error in how this site read the filing is a matter for corrections.

Questions

How did AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. reported 549 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 450 were for (82.0%), 99 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 73 of the 317 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. vote against management?

7.0% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 491 of the 6,986 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 MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 120 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 2 of them (1.7%). Across every category it voted for 10.4% 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 this filer 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.

Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings by AMERICAN CENTURY MUTUAL FUNDS, INC. (filer no. 100334), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.