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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1329377

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND

fund voting report, part of First Trust

Vote records reported
21,868year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.0%1,439 of 20,562 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
90.0%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
27.9%for, of for + against + abstain
89.8% for6.4% against3.8% other7.0% against management21,868 votes

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

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND reported 21,868 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 7.0% of its votes as cast against management (1,439 of 20,562), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 5.9%. 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 90.0% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 27.9% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (40.7% of 81), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (25.2% of 1,109) and COMPENSATION (19.2% of 739).

It reported 99.3 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.29% 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 rate90.0%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate27.9%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.29%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 ELECTIONS15,18014,2282925.5%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES1,7961,5161689.6%
AUDIT-RELATED1,8271,81810.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES86632240.7%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS136117189.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE4614203411.5%
COMPENSATION79161417219.2%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1,16289625225.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE229102190.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE1038950.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION13381250.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES349323170.6%
OTHER866375.2%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202420,5307.4%89.5%18.4%
year to 30 June 202521,5326.9%90.4%21.3%
year to 30 June 202621,8687.0%90.0%27.9%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND voted against management on 93 of the 954 it marked either way (9.7%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 82 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 384 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND voted for 118 (30.7%). 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
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
Mastercard Incorporated16 Jun 2026Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy and amend the bylaws to require an independent board chair.
AbbVie Inc.8 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - to Adopt a Policy to Require an Independent Chair
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal to seek shareholder approval before adopting an amendment to the bylaws pursuant to...
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting changes to the stockholder right to call a special meeting.
McDonald's Corporation20 May 2026Advisory Vote on Shareholders' Right to Act by Written Consent.
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
ServiceNow, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
ConocoPhillips12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Independent Board Chairman.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Morgan Stanley14 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chairman
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.22 May 2026Shareowner Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting a report on the risks of the Company excluding religious charities from...
THE BOEING COMPANY17 Apr 2026Action by Written Consent.
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
Lam Research Corporation4 Nov 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Realistic Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting,"
Analog Devices, Inc.11 Mar 2026To consider a shareholder proposal
CVS Health Corporation14 May 2026Stockholder Proposal for Reducing the Threshold for Our Stockholder Right to Act By Written Consent.
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION27 May 2026Proposal requesting Company to modify its Voluntary Retail Voting Program to provide multiple options not...
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by share class.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
United Parcel Service, Inc.7 May 2026To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.

Shares on loan

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND reported 99.3 million shares on loan at record dates against 7.61 billion shares voted: 1.29% 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

25 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
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund3,2843.0%95.5%20.9%
First Trust Lunt U.S. Factor Rotation ETF2,4298.3%86.8%33.8%
First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund1,5025.4%95.6%not reported
First Trust S&P 500 Diversified Free Cash Flow ETF1,3164.6%92.9%33.3%
First Trust Dow Jones Select MicroCap Index Fund1,3044.1%89.6%not reported
First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund1,2766.7%89.7%not reported
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund1,2023.5%94.4%35.3%
First Trust US Equity Opportunities ETF89717.1%83.1%33.3%
First Trust Nasdaq-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index Fund7796.7%89.1%24.6%
First Trust NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Fund73913.3%83.0%29.3%
First Trust WCM International Equity ETF7242.6%89.3%40.0%
First Trust Dividend Strength ETF6882.0%100.0%39.1%
First Trust Capital Strength ETF6742.1%100.0%17.3%
First Trust Growth Strength ETF6578.7%88.0%26.5%
First Trust Bloomberg Inflation Sensitive Equity ETF6243.5%94.1%33.3%
First Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index Fund55616.4%74.3%31.7%
First Trust Dow 30 Equal Weight ETF4783.3%96.7%13.3%
First Trust Nasdaq Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund46420.0%68.2%50.0%
First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund43923.9%71.1%27.1%
First Trust Water ETF3893.4%100.0%60.0%
First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF3759.3%91.2%42.9%
First Trust Natural Gas ETF3623.0%100.0%not reported
First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund32210.6%88.9%20.0%
First Trust WCM Developing World Equity ETF27015.6%not reportednot reported
First Trust WCM Global Equity ETF1180.0%not reportednot reported

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 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND reported 1,684 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 1,516 were for (90.0%), 168 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 93 of the 954 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 82 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND vote against management?

7.0% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 1,439 of the 20,562 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 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 219 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 0 of them (0.0%). Across every category it voted for 27.9% 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 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND (filer no. 1329377), 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.