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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1479026

Goldman Sachs ETF Trust

fund voting report, part of Goldman Sachs

Vote records reported
129,326year to 30 June 2026
Against management
8.1%10,360 of 127,336 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
94.6%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
33.9%for, of for + against + abstain
89.5% for9.8% against0.8% other8.1% against management128,125 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, Goldman Sachs ETF Trust listed 129,326 vote records. Votes against management made up 8.1% of those marked either way (10,360 of 127,336); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 5.6%. 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 94.6% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 33.9% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS (30.9% of 1,952), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (24.8% of 339) and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (16.9% of 24,359).

It reported 115.3 million shares out on loan at record dates, 3.00% 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 share8.1%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate94.6%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate33.9%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held3.00%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 ELECTIONS62,83860,4131,8323.7%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES5,4744,8432715.6%
AUDIT-RELATED9,0798,7892852.9%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS2522312.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES3412667524.8%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS1,9521,34261030.9%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE13,98312,6841,2999.5%
COMPENSATION11,0159,4191,59513.7%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE24,58819,4155,16616.9%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE8452216191.2%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE4271872400.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION4951873080.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES1,2974048887.8%
OTHER1,4171,0104064.1%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202441,3368.7%91.0%19.8%
year to 30 June 202538,6476.5%93.0%11.8%
year to 30 June 2026129,3268.1%94.6%33.9%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, Goldman Sachs ETF Trust voted against management on 139 of the 2,109 it marked either way (6.6%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 1,173 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, Goldman Sachs ETF Trust voted for 396 (33.8%). 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
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
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.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY14 May 2026A shareholder proposal relating to a request that the Board take steps to implement one vote per share for...
FORD MOTOR COMPANY14 May 2026A shareholder proposal relating to public disclosure by share class of voting results on matters subject...
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
Datadog, Inc.15 Jun 2026The stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting the adoption of a simple...
NRG Energy, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal to give shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
Keysight Technologies, Inc.19 Mar 2026Consider, on a non-binding advisory basis, a Stockholder Proposal: Shareholder Ability to Call for a...
Workday, Inc.16 Jun 2026To consider and vote upon a stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on share class.
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Vote on a stockholder proposal on Disclosure of Voting Result by Share Class.
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
ON Semiconductor Corporation14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting
Albemarle Corporation5 May 2026Shareholder Proposal regarding shareholders ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
lululemon athletica inc.25 Jun 2026Declassify the Board of Directors
Zscaler, Inc.12 Jan 2026To vote on a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our board of directors.
Tyson Foods, Inc.5 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on class of shares.
HubSpot, Inc.15 Jun 2026A stockholder proposal to change the Company's Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws to allow 10% holders of...
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.11 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the declassification of our board of directors
Campbell Soup Company18 Nov 2025To vote on a shareholder proposal regarding simple majority voting.
Universal Health Services, Inc.20 May 2026Disclosure of Voting Results Based on Shareholders' Money at Risk
TransUnion12 May 2026Advisory vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a stockholder right to call a special meeting.
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.5 May 2026Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation
Henry Schein, Inc.21 May 2026Proposal to approve, by non-binding vote, a shareholder proposal to Govern by Majority Vote.
Five Below, Inc.16 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that provisions in the Company's governance documents requiring greater...
Fox Corporation14 Nov 2025Simple Majority Vote.
Eagle Materials Inc.4 Aug 2025Non-binding advisory stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our Board of Directors.
AGCO Corporation23 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding giving stockholders an ability to call for a special stockholder meeting
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding stockholder ability to...
Mohawk Industries, Inc.21 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding a majority vote standard.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.21 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.

Shares on loan

Goldman Sachs ETF Trust reported 115.3 million shares on loan at record dates against 3.72 billion shares voted: 3.00% 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

21 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
Goldman Sachs MarketBeta Emerging Markets Equity ETF34,60518.6%not reported65.8%
Goldman Sachs MSCI World Private Equity Return Tracker ETF16,7475.4%95.4%34.1%
Goldman Sachs MarketBeta International Equity ETF14,5407.3%not reported24.1%
Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF11,5253.6%92.3%15.4%
Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta World Equity ETF11,0214.0%96.3%11.1%
Goldman Sachs Equal Weight U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF6,5272.0%95.9%9.0%
Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Core Premium Income ETF (GSETF)6,5221.2%96.1%8.6%
Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF5,8542.0%95.5%9.5%
Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. Equity ETF5,6312.5%95.3%9.5%
Goldman Sachs Innovate Equity ETF5,3046.9%94.2%11.0%
Goldman Sachs MarketBeta Russell 1000 Growth Equity ETF4,2204.1%95.2%12.5%
Goldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity ETF1,4641.2%95.1%10.3%
Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Core Premium Income ETF (GSETF)1,3352.6%98.9%11.7%
Goldman Sachs India Equity ETF1,1747.8%not reportednot reported
Goldman Sachs Small Cap Core Equity ETF (GSETF)9202.0%93.8%not reported
Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF6427.0%96.6%50.0%
Goldman Sachs Growth Opportunities ETF5723.7%100.0%13.3%
Goldman Sachs Future Health Care Equity ETF4202.4%100.0%0.0%
Goldman Sachs Technology Opportunities ETF2626.9%100.0%22.2%
Goldman Sachs Future Consumer Equity ETF273.7%not reportednot reported
Goldman Sachs Future Planet Equity ETF140.0%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 Goldman Sachs ETF Trust vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 Goldman Sachs ETF Trust reported 5,119 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 4,843 were for (94.6%), 271 against and 5 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 139 of the 2,109 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does Goldman Sachs ETF Trust vote against management?

8.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 10,360 of the 127,336 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 Goldman Sachs ETF Trust support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 629 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 5 of them (0.8%). Across every category it voted for 33.9% 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 Goldman Sachs ETF Trust (filer no. 1479026), 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.