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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 88048

DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST

fund voting report, part of DWS

Vote records reported
3,583year to 30 June 2026
Against management
9.5%341 of 3,581 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
78.2%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
52.3%for, of for + against + abstain
90.3% for7.3% against2.4% other9.5% against management3,583 votes

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

DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST reported 3,583 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 9.5% of its votes as cast against management (341 of 3,581), 3.3 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 8.3%. 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 78.2% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 52.3% 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 (41.8% of 67), SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (20.5% of 219) and SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (20.0% of 30).

It reported 5.4 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.33% 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 share9.5%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate78.2%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate52.3%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.33%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 ELECTIONS2,1932,053666.4%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES2191614520.5%
AUDIT-RELATED28828620.7%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS1100.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES3027320.0%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS1412214.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE2372073014.8%
COMPENSATION2171843317.1%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE3563213515.7%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE2972210.3%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE1711641.2%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION1871116.7%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES67363141.8%
OTHER2200.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20243,6778.7%91.2%66.7%
year to 30 June 20253,6979.0%88.4%49.0%
year to 30 June 20263,5839.5%78.2%52.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST voted against management on 32 of the 153 it marked either way (20.9%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 89 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST voted for 44 (49.4%). 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
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Human Rights Due Diligence
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Al and Machine Learning Tools for Oil and Gas Development and Production
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Al Data Usage Oversight
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots
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 a report on data privacy
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding AI Board oversight
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Mastercard Incorporated16 Jun 2026Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to prepare an annual lobbying report.
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
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
Merck & Co., Inc.26 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on political contributions.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting changes to the stockholder right to call a special meeting.
AT&T INC.14 May 2026Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
ServiceNow, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.
Gilead Sciences, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a report on the impact of extended patent exclusivities on...
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Political Spending Disclosure,"
Lam Research Corporation4 Nov 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Realistic Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting,"
Analog Devices, Inc.11 Mar 2026To consider a shareholder proposal
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 Regarding Data Protection Impact Assessment
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.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding report on Al data usage oversight.
Zoetis Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to permit shareholder action by written consent.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated13 May 2026Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding shareholder right to act by written...
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Marvell Technology, Inc.25 Jun 2026To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
Snowflake Inc.29 Jun 2026To consider and vote on, if properly presented at the meeting, a non-binding stockholder proposal...
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting (Proposal...
Equinix, Inc.13 May 2026Consideration and vote upon a stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, related...
AppLovin Corporation3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by class of shares
Airbnb, Inc.5 Jun 2026Dual-class sunset; and
SHOPIFY INC.16 Jun 2026Adopt a Policy on Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") in the Company's Business and Operations

Shares on loan

DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST reported 5.4 million shares on loan at record dates against 403.3 million shares voted: 1.33% 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

5 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
DWS RREEF Global Real Estate Securities Fund1,1654.6%86.7%not reported
DWS Health and Wellness Fund7736.0%87.0%50.0%
DWS Digital Horizons Fund64019.1%66.7%46.2%
DWS Science and Technology Fund62617.9%65.2%60.4%
DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities Fund3792.1%88.2%not reported

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 DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST reported 206 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 161 were for (78.2%), 45 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 32 of the 153 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST vote against management?

9.5% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 341 of the 3,581 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 DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 25 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 3 of them (12.0%). Across every category it voted for 52.3% 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 DEUTSCHE DWS SECURITIES TRUST (filer no. 88048), 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.