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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1479360

PIMCO Equity Series

fund voting report, part of PIMCO

Vote records reported
61,279year to 30 June 2026
Against management
10.3%6,160 of 59,672 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
85.6%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
52.3%for, of for + against + abstain
88.0% for10.2% against1.8% other10.3% against management60,873 votes

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

PIMCO Equity Series reported 61,279 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 10.3% of its votes as cast against management (6,160 of 59,672), 4.1 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 13.6%. 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 85.6% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 52.3% 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 (20.7% of 666), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (20.3% of 118) and DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (16.1% of 205).

It reported 364.4 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.10% 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 share10.3%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate85.6%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate52.3%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.10%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 ELECTIONS30,01527,1621,9828.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES3,3622,75046214.2%
AUDIT-RELATED3,6873,27940010.6%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS98111.1%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1331041620.3%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS66752714020.7%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE6,3055,7465598.9%
COMPENSATION5,9144,95793716.0%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE12,02810,6321,33211.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE38318320013.9%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE176125516.8%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION2071476016.1%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES50431419015.5%
OTHER7995232735.9%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202459,34521.2%71.2%65.4%
year to 30 June 202561,14810.7%85.8%44.8%
year to 30 June 202661,27910.3%85.6%52.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, PIMCO Equity Series voted against management on 128 of the 1,039 it marked either way (12.3%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 852 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, PIMCO Equity Series voted for 390 (45.8%). 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
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Human Rights Due Diligence
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Al and Machine Learning Tools for Oil and Gas Development and Production
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Al Data Usage Oversight
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on AI data usage oversight
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on inclusion ROI audit.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Lobbying alignment
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,"
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Report on Politicized Brand Misalignment,"
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "ESG ROI Report,"
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Independent Board Chair
Merck & Co., Inc.26 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on DEI risks in federal contracting.
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Adopt an Independent Chair
Cisco Systems, Inc.16 Dec 2025Stockholder Proposal - Approval to request the Board to conduct an evaluation and issue a report assessing...
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated1 Jun 2026If properly presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the shareholder proposal requesting the...
Costco Wholesale Corporation15 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal regarding greenwashing risk audit.
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Independent Board Chair.
The Coca-Cola Company29 Apr 2026Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a sustainability committee by-law amendment
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 to Adopt Policy for an Independent Chair.
McDonald's Corporation20 May 2026Advisory Vote on Shareholders' Right to Act by Written Consent.
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Risks of non-fiduciary executive compensation metrics
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Independent board chair
GE VERNOVA INC.20 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting report assessing sustainability goals on the basis of net-present-value...
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.

Shares on loan

PIMCO Equity Series reported 364.4 million shares on loan at record dates against 32.82 billion shares voted: 1.10% 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

9 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
PIMCO RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor International Equity ETF19,2767.0%95.0%27.0%
PIMCO RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor Emerging Markets Equity ETF11,64214.2%100.0%63.5%
PIMCO RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor U.S. Equity ETF10,6046.6%92.5%53.7%
PIMCO RAE Emerging Markets Fund4,34013.0%not reported50.0%
PIMCO RAFI ESG U.S. ETF3,86333.2%53.4%75.5%
PIMCO Dividend and Income Fund3,6086.6%94.5%32.0%
PIMCO RAE US Small Fund3,0917.1%92.1%80.0%
PIMCO RAE International Fund3,0796.5%not reported22.4%
PIMCO RAE US Fund1,7766.4%91.1%51.2%

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 PIMCO Equity Series vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 PIMCO Equity Series reported 3,212 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 2,750 were for (85.6%), 462 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 128 of the 1,039 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does PIMCO Equity Series vote against management?

10.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 6,160 of the 59,672 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 PIMCO Equity Series support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 253 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 53 of them (20.9%). Across every category it voted for 52.3% 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 PIMCO Equity Series (filer no. 1479360), 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.