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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1383496

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED ALPHADEX FUND

fund voting report, part of First Trust

Vote records reported
50,641year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.6%3,843 of 50,508 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
90.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
38.6%for, of for + against + abstain
91.0% for4.5% against4.4% other7.6% against management50,641 votes

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

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED ALPHADEX FUND reported 50,641 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 7.6% of its votes as cast against management (3,843 of 50,508), 1.4 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 8.0%. 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 90.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 38.6% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (32.3% of 1,809), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (27.5% of 171) and COMPENSATION (21.4% of 1,507).

It reported 79.5 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.44% 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 share7.6%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate90.5%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate38.6%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.44%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 ELECTIONS36,37033,8965596.6%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES4,9364,1904399.4%
AUDIT-RELATED4,6444,63500.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1751552027.5%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS3342864513.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE4664323413.3%
COMPENSATION1,5121,18832121.4%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1,8341,44335532.3%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE294152790.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE128151130.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION157151420.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES379183610.5%
OTHER330not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202453,1868.1%89.4%21.3%
year to 30 June 202550,5537.0%91.7%29.2%
year to 30 June 202650,6417.6%90.5%38.6%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED ALPHADEX FUND voted against management on 142 of the 1,474 it marked either way (9.6%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 393 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED ALPHADEX FUND voted for 153 (38.9%). 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
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
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
AT&T INC.14 May 2026Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
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
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
Deere & Company25 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent
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,"
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...
Boston Scientific Corporation30 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal titled "Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting."
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 ALPHADEX FUND reported 79.5 million shares on loan at record dates against 3.18 billion shares voted: 2.44% 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

20 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 Multi Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund7,5995.1%94.6%44.0%
First Trust Multi Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund6,44111.5%86.6%33.3%
First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund4,9245.7%91.0%32.2%
First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund4,6568.9%90.1%61.5%
First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund4,6057.8%92.3%54.1%
First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund2,6355.8%94.4%50.0%
First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund2,4984.4%93.3%38.9%
First Trust Mid Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund2,4664.9%95.8%55.6%
First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund2,3028.1%86.7%28.0%
First Trust Mid Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund2,12711.9%88.3%73.3%
First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund2,01214.9%84.7%not reported
First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX Fund1,6564.5%93.8%50.0%
First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX Fund1,4036.2%95.4%32.9%
First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund1,3235.7%91.9%43.8%
First Trust Technology AlphaDEX Fund1,11514.9%75.0%33.3%
First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX Fund9036.0%93.4%45.2%
First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund5503.5%100.0%47.1%
First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX Fund5408.3%95.0%21.7%
First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund4493.6%97.4%44.4%
First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund4373.4%94.4%54.5%

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 ALPHADEX FUND vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED ALPHADEX FUND reported 4,629 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 4,190 were for (90.5%), 439 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 142 of the 1,474 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

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

7.6% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 3,843 of the 50,508 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 ALPHADEX FUND support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 279 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 38.6% 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 ALPHADEX FUND (filer no. 1383496), 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.