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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 764719

MFS SERIES TRUST XV

fund voting report, part of MFS

Vote records reported
8,893year to 30 June 2026
Against management
5.1%449 of 8,823 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
95.6%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
27.2%for, of for + against + abstain
93.0% for4.8% against2.1% other5.1% against management8,863 votes

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

For the year to 30 June 2026, MFS SERIES TRUST XV reported 8,893 vote records on Form N-PX. 449 of the 8,823 votes that were marked for or against management went against management: 5.1%, 1.1 percentage points below the median fund registrant (6.2%).

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 3.4%. 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 95.6% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 27.2% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES (11.0% of 91), ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE (10.3% of 68) and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (8.8% of 810).

It reported 1.9 million shares out on loan at record dates, 3.65% 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 share5.1%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate95.6%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate27.2%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held3.65%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 ELECTIONS5,5765,2871405.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES489434204.5%
AUDIT-RELATED66966810.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1914416.7%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS595546.8%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE658630284.4%
COMPENSATION608565415.9%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE8256981188.8%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE68214710.3%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE2812160.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION3413212.9%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES91424911.0%
OTHER9720.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20248,9354.9%93.6%30.1%
year to 30 June 20258,7444.8%93.8%28.4%
year to 30 June 20268,8935.1%95.6%27.2%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, MFS SERIES TRUST XV voted against management on 19 of the 450 it marked either way (4.2%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 219 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, MFS SERIES TRUST XV voted for 54 (24.7%). 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 report on impact of climate commitments
Amazon.com, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting additional reporting on impact of data centers on climate commitments
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 a report on AI-generated misinformation
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
NextEra Energy, Inc.21 May 2026Report on Plans to Reduce and Align GHG Emissions with Paris Agreement Goals
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Deere & Company25 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
THE BOEING COMPANY17 Apr 2026Action by Written Consent.
Booking Holdings Inc.2 Jun 2026Non-binding stockholder vote on a proposal to avoid brand damage due to corporate political spending.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Data Protection Impact Assessment
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 Cigna Group22 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.14 May 2026Shareholder proposal entitled "Avoid Brand Damage due to Corporate Political Spending."
Otis Worldwide Corporation27 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding reporting on political contributions and expenditures
General Mills, Inc.30 Sep 2025Shareholder Proposal - Disclosure of Regenerative Agriculture Practices Within Supply Chain.
AppLovin Corporation3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by class of shares
Delta Air Lines, Inc.18 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent.
HCA Healthcare, Inc.23 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding stockholders' right to act by...
HCA Healthcare, Inc.23 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding a report on healthcare consequences.
The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal that the Company adopt written consent rights for shareholders
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
Darden Restaurants, Inc.17 Sep 2025To vote on a shareholder proposal requesting the Company disclose measurable targets for reducing...
Albemarle Corporation5 May 2026Shareholder Proposal regarding shareholders ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
Zscaler, Inc.12 Jan 2026To vote on a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our board of directors.
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding adopting a majority voting standard
Campbell Soup Company18 Nov 2025To vote on a shareholder proposal regarding simple majority voting.
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
Assurant, Inc.21 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding action by written consent.
TransUnion12 May 2026Advisory vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a stockholder right to call a special meeting.
Resideo Technologies, Inc.3 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.

Shares on loan

MFS SERIES TRUST XV reported 1.9 million shares on loan at record dates against 49.0 million shares voted: 3.65% 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
MFS Global Alternative Strategy Fund8,8935.1%95.8%24.8%

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 MFS SERIES TRUST XV vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 MFS SERIES TRUST XV reported 454 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 434 were for (95.6%), 20 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 19 of the 450 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does MFS SERIES TRUST XV vote against management?

5.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 449 of the 8,823 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 MFS SERIES TRUST XV support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 54 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 7 of them (13.0%). Across every category it voted for 27.2% 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 MFS SERIES TRUST XV (filer no. 764719), 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.