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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 858744

SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC

fund voting report, part of Capital Group and American Funds

Vote records reported
9,364year to 30 June 2026
Against management
4.4%400 of 9,151 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
76.3%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
42.3%for, of for + against + abstain
94.7% for4.7% against0.6% other4.4% against management9,243 votes

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

SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC reported 9,364 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 4.4% of its votes as cast against management (400 of 9,151), 1.9 percentage points below the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 6.3%. 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 76.3% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 42.3% 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 (31.8% of 22), SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (21.7% of 355) and EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS (15.6% of 64).

It reported 2.27 billion shares out on loan at record dates, 3.10% 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 share4.4%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate76.3%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate42.3%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held3.10%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 ELECTIONS4,3854,283902.2%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES3552427521.7%
AUDIT-RELATED79478860.1%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2419331.8%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS65551015.6%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE95683811412.5%
COMPENSATION1,1021,053474.0%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1,8261,731923.4%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE322570.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE232300.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION232300.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES515100.0%
OTHER5527269.1%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20249,7684.9%75.7%41.2%
year to 30 June 20259,6523.9%77.5%28.8%
year to 30 June 20269,3644.4%76.3%42.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC voted against management on 73 of the 309 it marked either way (23.6%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 61 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC voted for 29 (47.5%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Vote on a stockholder proposal on Disclosure of Voting Result by Share Class.
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding adopting a majority voting standard
DT Midstream, Inc.5 May 2026Stockholder Proposal on Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.11 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the declassification of our board of directors
Five Below, Inc.16 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that provisions in the Company's governance documents requiring greater...
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding stockholder ability to...
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.21 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Fix Board Terms for Directors
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Fix Number of Directors
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Fix Board Terms for Directors
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Fix Number of Directors
Brunello Cucinelli SpA23 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Interpump Group SpA30 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Interpump Group SpA30 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
BNK Financial Group, Inc.26 Mar 2026Approve Restricted Stock Unit Grant Details (Shareholder Proposal)
BNK Financial Group, Inc.26 Mar 2026Approval of Limit on Remunerations of Directors (Shareholder Proposal)
SOL SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
SOL SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
SOL SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED

Shares on loan

SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC reported 2.27 billion shares on loan at record dates against 71.10 billion shares voted: 3.10% 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

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
SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC9,3644.4%76.0%39.2%

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 SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC reported 317 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 242 were for (76.3%), 75 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 73 of the 309 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC vote against management?

4.4% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 400 of the 9,151 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 SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 7 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 42.3% 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 SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC (filer no. 858744), 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.