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Form N-PX · institutional managerSEC filer no. 7195

ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC.

institutional manager voting report

Vote records reported
132year to 30 June 2025
Against management
95.7%112 of 117 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
4.3%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
not reportednot reported by managers
4.2% for0.0% against95.8% other95.7% against management120 votes

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

For the year to 30 June 2025, ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. reported 132 vote records on Form N-PX. 112 of the 117 votes that were marked for or against management went against management: 95.7%, 88.2 percentage points above the median institutional manager (7.5%).

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 96.9%. 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 4.3% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median institutional manager: 91.3%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (95.7% of 117).

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 2,562 institutional managers with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2025This filerMedian institutional managerAll filers pooled
Against-management share95.7%7.5%9.7%
Say-on-pay support rate4.3%91.3%84.3%
Shareholder-proposal support ratenot reported17.6%33.0%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.00%0.00%2.20%
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%

Of the 132 vote records in this filing, 12 carry something the form does not expect: a missing vote source or category, a record with no vote line, a meeting date that cannot be read, or a security identifier this site could not use. They are counted as filed. What is checked

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
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES1205095.7%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202414196.0%4.5%not reported
year to 30 June 202513295.7%4.3%not reported

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. voted against management on 109 of the 113 it marked either way (96.5%) in the year to 30 June 2025. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 14 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Institutional managers report say-on-pay votes only, so no shareholder proposals appear here.

Shares on loan

ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. reported no shares on loan for the year to 30 June 2025. 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.

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 ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2025 ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. reported 116 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 5 were for (4.3%), 0 against and 111 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 109 of the 113 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 14 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. vote against management?

95.7% of the time in the year to 30 June 2025: 112 of the 117 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.

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 30 Sep 2026.

Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings by ARGUS INVESTORS' COUNSEL, INC. (filer no. 7195), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 30 Sep 2026; page built 1 Oct 2026.