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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1424212

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III

fund voting report, part of First Trust

Vote records reported
12,392year to 30 June 2026
Against management
6.1%734 of 12,088 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
96.7%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
29.2%for, of for + against + abstain
90.4% for7.1% against2.5% other6.1% against management12,392 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III listed 12,392 vote records. Votes against management made up 6.1% of those marked either way (734 of 12,088); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 10.0%. 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 96.7% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 29.2% 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 (22.2% of 27), COMPENSATION (14.6% of 1,048) and EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS (13.7% of 102).

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 share6.1%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate96.7%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate29.2%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.00%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 ELECTIONS6,8276,3342935.4%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES517473163.5%
AUDIT-RELATED860827232.2%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS1100.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2823522.2%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS104891513.7%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1,064992565.4%
COMPENSATION1,09189016614.6%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2,0081,7831626.5%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE11329780.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE6326310.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION6026280.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES16067871.3%
OTHER4931185.9%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202414,5606.4%92.9%22.0%
year to 30 June 202513,7815.3%95.9%27.3%
year to 30 June 202612,3926.1%96.7%29.2%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III voted against management on 15 of the 427 it marked either way (3.5%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 301 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III voted for 86 (28.6%). 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
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
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
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.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.22 May 2026Shareowner Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Deere & Company25 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent
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.
Zoetis Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to permit shareholder action by written consent.
The Sherwin-Williams Company22 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Ability to Call a Special Meeting
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.11 May 2026Shareholder Proposal titled "Improve Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting".
Yum! Brands, Inc.14 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Reduce the Percentage of Shares Required to Call a Special Meeting.
Cintas Corporation28 Oct 2025A shareholder proposal regarding support for shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
Autodesk, Inc.17 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal requesting amendment to stockholder special meeting right.
WEC Energy Group, Inc.7 May 2026Stockholder proposal to govern by majority vote
HCA Healthcare, Inc.23 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding stockholders' right to act by...
Airbnb, Inc.5 Jun 2026Dual-class sunset; and
The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal that the Company adopt written consent rights for shareholders
Dollar General Corporation28 May 2026To vote on a shareholder proposal asking the Board to take the steps necessary to reduce the minimum...
Dover Corporation8 May 2026To consider a shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair.
NRG Energy, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal to give shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
FirstEnergy Corp.20 May 2026Independent Board Chairman
Cboe Global Markets, Inc.14 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.

Shares on loan

FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III reported no shares on loan for the year to 30 June 2026. 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

10 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 Long/Short Equity ETF2,8145.3%94.5%29.7%
First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Developed International ETF2,5856.2%not reported26.2%
First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Developed International ETF2,4656.3%not reported30.8%
First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Small/Mid ETF1,5143.8%98.7%35.7%
First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Domestic ETF1,3753.1%96.9%22.4%
First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Emerging Markets ETF1,22313.9%not reported33.3%
First Trust RiverFront Dynamic Europe ETF2347.9%not reportednot reported
First Trust Equity Market Neutral ETF1510.0%100.0%not reported
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF180.0%not reportednot reported
First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF137.7%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 III vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III reported 489 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 473 were for (96.7%), 16 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 15 of the 427 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

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

6.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 734 of the 12,088 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 III support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 78 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 29.2% 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 III (filer no. 1424212), 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.