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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 88064

DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST

fund voting report, part of DWS

Vote records reported
7,217year to 30 June 2026
Against management
9.3%666 of 7,181 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
83.8%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
47.0%for, of for + against + abstain
89.8% for7.4% against2.8% other9.3% against management7,191 votes

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

DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST reported 7,217 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 9.3% of its votes as cast against management (666 of 7,181), 3.0 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 7.7%. 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 83.8% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 47.0% 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 (42.4% of 172), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (40.1% of 354) and HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE (36.7% of 49).

It reported 16.9 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 share9.3%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate83.8%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate47.0%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 ELECTIONS4,9764,727874.9%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES6234889415.3%
AUDIT-RELATED59459400.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES37261132.4%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS433949.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE102822028.4%
COMPENSATION2421727032.2%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE3582788040.1%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE1161510111.2%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE49202936.7%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION5985110.2%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES172769642.4%
OTHER220not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20247,68210.8%90.7%60.1%
year to 30 June 20257,3909.3%87.4%44.6%
year to 30 June 20267,2179.3%83.8%47.0%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST voted against management on 58 of the 406 it marked either way (14.3%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 215 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST voted for 102 (47.4%). 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
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on report on online sexual exploitation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
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,"
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Customer Data Privacy Risks
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Sufficiency of Associates' Access to Healthcare
Merck & Co., Inc.26 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on political contributions.
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
Walmart Inc.4 Jun 2026Report on Workplace Health and Safety Governance
Walmart Inc.4 Jun 2026Human rights or human capital/workforce
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Report Evaluating the Treatment of Animals within Supply Chain.
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal regarding adopting targets and reporting on metrics to assess the feasibility of...
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 2025A shareholder proposal requesting a child labor audit.
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.
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
ServiceNow, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.
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
Lowe's Companies, Inc.29 May 2026Shareholder Proposal requesting a report on risks of sharing customer data with third parties.

Shares on loan

DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST reported 16.9 million shares on loan at record dates against 1.35 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
DWS Core Equity Fund1,2779.1%83.7%46.3%
DWS Enhanced Core Equity Fund1,2369.4%82.6%46.4%
DWS CROCI U.S. Fund1,0455.6%86.1%39.7%
DWS Small Cap Growth Fund8778.0%91.6%40.0%
DWS Small Cap Core Fund8457.3%89.5%80.0%
DWS Capital Growth Fund77914.2%74.1%50.7%
DWS CROCI Equity Dividend Fund5883.9%92.3%44.8%
DWS Large Cap Focus Growth Fund57019.7%63.6%53.1%

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 INVESTMENT TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST reported 582 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 488 were for (83.8%), 94 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 58 of the 406 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does DEUTSCHE DWS INVESTMENT TRUST vote against management?

9.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 666 of the 7,181 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 INVESTMENT TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 114 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 13 of them (11.4%). Across every category it voted for 47.0% 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 INVESTMENT TRUST (filer no. 88064), 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.