Shareholder Voting Trends (2018-2022)
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Shareholder Voting

Shareholder Voting Trends (2018-2022)

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Shareholder Voting Trends (2018-2022) provides an overview of shareholder resolutions filed at Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies through mid-July 2022, including trends regarding the volume and topics of shareholder proposals, the level of support received by those proposals when put to a vote, and the types of proposal sponsors. It is accompanied by a live dashboard, which contains the most current figures and enables data cuts by market index, business sectors, and company size groups.

The report is accompanied by three briefs:

 

Shareholder Voting Trends (2018-2022) provides an overview of shareholder resolutions filed at Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies through mid-July 2022, including trends regarding the volume and topics of shareholder proposals, the level of support received by those proposals when put to a vote, and the types of proposal sponsors. It is accompanied by a live dashboard, which contains the most current figures and enables data cuts by market index, business sectors, and company size groups.

The report is accompanied by three briefs:

 

Several factors lead to a challenging proxy season for companies:

  1. The number of shareholder proposals filed by investors;
  2. The number of proposals going to a vote, because of the difficulty of negotiating proposal withdrawals or omitting them through the no-action letter process;[1] and
  3. The level of support for proposals that come to a vote.

Our insights on the proxy season are accompanied by graphics that map the ESG-related shareholder proposals from the 2022 proxy season against these three dimensions. They illustrate which topics have caused most tension between companies and investors.

Insights for What’s Ahead

    • There was a sharp increase in the number of shareholder proposals filed and voted in 2022, driven by a growth in environmental and social proposals, suggesting that investor focus on ESG is accelerating. As of mid-July 2022, shareholders

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Matteo Tonello

Matteo Tonello Matteo Tonello

Head of TCB Benchmarking and Analytics
The Conference Board

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