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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 230382

BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc.

fund voting report, part of BlackRock and iShares

Vote records reported
6,886year to 30 June 2026
Against management
4.0%278 of 6,881 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
93.0%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
21.1%for, of for + against + abstain
94.6% for2.5% against2.9% other4.0% against management6,883 votes

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

BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. reported 6,886 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 4.0% of its votes as cast against management (278 of 6,881), 2.2 percentage points below the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 3.5%. 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 93.0% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 21.1% 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 (9.1% of 77), SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (6.9% of 786) and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (6.2% of 161).

It reported 5.7 million shares out on loan at record dates, 3.29% 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 share4.0%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate93.0%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate21.1%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held3.29%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 ELECTIONS4,7484,555594.0%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES786679516.9%
AUDIT-RELATED72772600.1%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES7855239.1%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS605733.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE636124.8%
COMPENSATION29128293.1%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE161121306.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE52340.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE62433.3%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION21150.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES53220.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20244,4603.3%94.5%20.9%
year to 30 June 20254,9013.9%97.6%20.0%
year to 30 June 20266,8864.0%93.0%21.1%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. voted against management on 48 of the 696 it marked either way (6.9%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 54 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. voted for 12 (22.2%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.11 Jun 2026To consider and vote upon one shareholder proposal
Universal Health Services, Inc.20 May 2026Stockholder proposal to adopt a policy requiring Universal Health Services, Inc. to publicly disclose its...
Universal Health Services, Inc.20 May 2026Disclosure of Voting Results Based on Shareholders' Money at Risk
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...
Lumen Technologies, Inc.20 May 2026Approval of a shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to vote for or against a poison pill.
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.12 May 2026Vote on a stockholder proposal regarding support for transparency in political spending.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.21 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
AutoNation, Inc.28 Apr 2026Adoption of stockholder proposal regarding GHG report.
SkyWest, Inc.5 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding collective bargaining policy.
Calix, Inc.14 May 2026To hold an advisory vote on a stockholder proposal relating to a simple majority vote.

Shares on loan

BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. reported 5.7 million shares on loan at record dates against 167.8 million shares voted: 3.29% 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

1 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
BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc.6,8864.0%93.1%21.1%

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 BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. reported 730 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 679 were for (93.0%), 51 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 48 of the 696 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. vote against management?

4.0% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 278 of the 6,881 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 BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 5 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 2 of them (40.0%). Across every category it voted for 21.1% 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 BlackRock Advantage SMID Cap Fund, Inc. (filer no. 230382), 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.