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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 745968

Federated Hermes Equity Funds

fund voting report, part of Federated Hermes

Vote records reported
8,541year to 30 June 2026
Against management
6.4%542 of 8,475 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
94.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
31.3%for, of for + against + abstain
91.0% for5.6% against3.5% other6.4% against management8,541 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, Federated Hermes Equity Funds listed 8,541 vote records. Votes against management made up 6.4% of those marked either way (542 of 8,475); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 4.3%. 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 94.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 31.3% 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 (37.5% of 112), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (10.8% of 593) and COMPENSATION (10.3% of 409).

It reported 64.5 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.24% 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 share6.4%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate94.5%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate31.3%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.24%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 ELECTIONS5,3605,0161385.9%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES711607355.2%
AUDIT-RELATED78277810.1%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES116941937.5%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS323200.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE347320278.7%
COMPENSATION4103585110.3%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE6145415910.8%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE530530.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE310310.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION1541121.4%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES6819488.8%
OTHER202not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20248,7536.3%94.0%26.7%
year to 30 June 20258,0125.2%96.6%25.8%
year to 30 June 20268,5416.4%94.5%31.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, Federated Hermes Equity Funds voted against management on 25 of the 494 it marked either way (5.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 194 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, Federated Hermes Equity Funds voted for 60 (30.9%). 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
Amazon.com, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting a mandatory independent board chair policy
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 2026Require Independent Board Chair
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
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
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Independent Board Chair
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Adopt an Independent Chair
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Independent Board Chair.
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.
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Independent board chair
Pfizer Inc.23 Apr 2026Adopt an Independent Chair Policy
Amgen Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder proposal to require an independent board chairman.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company5 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Lobbying Disclosure
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Mondelez International, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting adoption of an independent board chairman policy
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION27 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
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 2026Shareholder proposal: OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES
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.
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY13 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding independent board chairman
Ecolab Inc.7 May 2026Vote on a stockholder proposal regarding an independent board chair policy
PayPal Holdings, Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Reduce Threshold to Call Special Meetings of Stockholders.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation14 May 2026Stockholder Proposal to Require Independent Board Chair
The Travelers Companies, Inc.20 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
The Sherwin-Williams Company22 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Ability to Call a Special Meeting
Snowflake Inc.29 Jun 2026To consider and vote on, if properly presented at the meeting, a non-binding stockholder proposal...
Yum! Brands, Inc.14 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Reduce the Percentage of Shares Required to Call a Special Meeting.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting (Proposal...

Shares on loan

Federated Hermes Equity Funds reported 64.5 million shares on loan at record dates against 5.16 billion shares voted: 1.24% 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

8 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
Federated Hermes MDT Small Cap Value Fund1,7917.2%94.4%62.5%
Federated Hermes Kaufmann Fund1,3027.0%94.2%34.0%
Federated Hermes MDT Mid Cap Growth Fund1,2906.3%95.8%61.5%
Federated Hermes Kaufmann Small Cap Fund1,0706.8%95.7%20.0%
Federated Hermes Prudent Bear Fund8748.8%98.2%37.0%
Federated Hermes International Strategic Value Dividend Fund8572.4%100.0%0.0%
Federated Hermes Strategic Value Dividend Fund7272.8%97.2%26.2%
Federated Hermes Kaufmann Large Cap Fund6308.9%89.2%28.6%

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 Federated Hermes Equity Funds vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 Federated Hermes Equity Funds reported 642 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 607 were for (94.5%), 35 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 25 of the 494 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does Federated Hermes Equity Funds vote against management?

6.4% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 542 of the 8,475 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 Federated Hermes Equity Funds support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 53 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 31.3% 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 Federated Hermes Equity Funds (filer no. 745968), 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.