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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 914775

BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc.

fund voting report, part of BNY Mellon

Vote records reported
3,490year to 30 June 2026
Against management
6.4%224 of 3,487 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
86.9%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
28.4%for, of for + against + abstain
90.6% for8.7% against0.7% other6.4% against management3,490 votes

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

BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. reported 3,490 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 6.4% of its votes as cast against management (224 of 3,487), close to the median fund registrant, which was 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 86.9% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 28.4% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in AUDIT-RELATED (31.3% of 275), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (16.7% of 276) and SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (13.0% of 223).

It reported 48.5 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.16% 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 rate86.9%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate28.4%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.16%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 ELECTIONS2,2612,228181.5%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES2231852813.0%
AUDIT-RELATED2751898631.3%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS1100.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1813529.4%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS232038.7%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE16115656.2%
COMPENSATION160146147.5%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2782364216.7%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE536470.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE245190.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION305250.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES8918717.9%
OTHER4400.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20244,03610.0%82.0%34.6%
year to 30 June 20254,2708.0%81.8%23.6%
year to 30 June 20263,4906.4%86.9%28.4%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. voted against management on 25 of the 162 it marked either way (15.4%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 133 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. voted for 37 (27.8%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
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
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
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
Pfizer Inc.23 Apr 2026Adopt an Independent Chair Policy
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.
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Lam Research Corporation4 Nov 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Realistic Shareholder 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 2026A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by share class.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
FedEx Corporation29 Sep 2025Stockholder proposal regarding independent board chairman.
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.11 May 2026Shareholder Proposal titled "Improve Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting".
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Dominion Energy, Inc.5 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding a Policy for an Independent Chair
Marvell Technology, Inc.25 Jun 2026To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
Delta Air Lines, Inc.18 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent.
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...
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation2 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt shareholder right to act by written consent
Dover Corporation8 May 2026To consider a shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair.
ON Semiconductor Corporation14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting
CMS Energy Corporation8 May 2026Vote on a Shareholder Proposal: Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Tyson Foods, Inc.5 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on class of shares.
Akamai Technologies, Inc.13 May 2026To vote upon a shareholder proposal requiring the Company to provide a report on political spending.
HubSpot, Inc.15 Jun 2026A stockholder proposal to change the Company's Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws to allow 10% holders of...
Crown Holdings, Inc.30 Apr 2026Consideration of a Shareholder proposal regarding Shareholder right to act by written consent.
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.5 May 2026Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation
The Timken Company8 May 2026Corporate governance
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.25 Dec 2025Shareholder proposal: CAPITAL STRUCTURE

Shares on loan

BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. reported 48.5 million shares on loan at record dates against 2.20 billion shares voted: 2.16% 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
BNY Mellon Dynamic Value Fund1,2216.9%95.1%25.6%
BNY Mellon Global Real Return Fund9474.8%93.1%21.7%
BNY Mellon Midcap Value Fund7666.2%80.6%52.6%
BNY Mellon Technology Growth Fund4149.7%84.0%32.6%
BNY Mellon Opportunistic Small Cap Fund1425.6%64.3%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 BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. reported 213 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 185 were for (86.9%), 28 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 25 of the 162 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. vote against management?

6.4% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 224 of the 3,487 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 BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 47 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 28.4% 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 BNY Mellon Advantage Funds, Inc. (filer no. 914775), 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.