Companies which disclosed voting outcome by shareholders

360 Capital (TGP): noon physical meeting in Sydney. See notice of meeting. Market cap $130m. No protest votes and kudos for this extra voluntary voting disclosure via Boardroom.

Altium (ALU): responded positively to a request at the 2021 AGM and disclosed these voting results which showed about 700 shareholders participated with the closest vote on the proxies being on the proposed fee cap rise for directors which was supported by 271 holders and opposed by 246. However, they regressed with these 2022 AGM results via Computershare.

ASX: got with the program in 2023 with these voting results which showed a majority against the rem report. Compare with 2022 when they didn't do it. The directed turnout in 2023 was about 1400 with the only narrow defeat being of the remuneration report with 696 shareholders in favour and 710 against. Stuck with best practice in 2024 with Link providing the data and just over 1300 shareholders directing votes.

Aussie Broadband (ABB): 10.30am hybrid in Melbourne on October 25 2024. See notice of meeting. No protests and delivered extra voting disclosure via Link.

Australian United Investments (AUI): Not a big turnout at the AUI AGM but many thanks to chairman Charlie Goode for agreeing in 2023 to a request to disclose voting outcome by shares and shareholders. The rem report was supported by 99.5% of voted stock with 169 in favour and 25 against. Did it again in 2024 with Link providing the data.

Australian Vintage (AVG): It took until the day after the meeting but many thanks to Australian Vintage for going the extra mile and disclosing how many of their circa 5,000 retail shareholders voted for and against each item at the 2023 AGM. See these voting results from Computershare.

Clearview Wealth (CVW): 10am hybrid in Sydney on November 7, 2024, via the Computershare platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $340m. No protests and responded positively to request for extra voting data.

Cobram Estates (CBO): 11am hybrid in October 2024 with physical component at company facility in Lara near Geelong. No protest votes but extra voting data provided by Link.

Computershare (CPU): 10am hybrid at Melbourne HQ on November 14, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Hit best practice with early disclosure of the proxies and both metrics in these voting results. No protest votes on any metric. Great work.

Dexus (DXS): responded positively to a request at the 2021 AGM and disclosed these voting results from Link which showed about 1,000 of the 31,000 shareholders participated with only narrow majorities received for the two remuneration items. Failed to back it up in either 2022, 2023 or 2024.

Elders (ELD): produced the most comprehensive pre-AGM voting disclosure (via Boardroom) that we've seen in 2023 which included the outcomes by shares and shareholders. This was even more surprising given two pay resolutions were defeated, which is normally the sort of news you try to hide. However, the same data wasn't in these poll results.

FleetPartners (FPR): the question requesting this was ignored at the 2024 AGM but then the head of legal emailed after the meeting apologising and said they had delivered the request in the voting results announcement via Link. Excellent work. Sadly, only 103 of the circa 5,000 shareholders bothered to vote.

Flight Centre (FLT): responded positively to this request at the 2023 AGM and disclosed these voting results via Computershare which showed that just under 800 of there more than 100,000 shareholders directed votes for or against the 3 resolutions, which were overwhelmingly supported. They were at best practice with all aspects of voting disclosure again in 2024, including these scheme-like results.

GDI Property (GDI): got with the program via Link without even being directly asked. See voting results.

G8 Education (GEM): see example of early proxy disclosure with the formal addresses from April 27 2022 (included bonus of shareholder numbers voting for and against). They also did it in 2024 but didn't have the same data in these poll results via Link.

GQG Partners: see example of early proxy disclosure with the formal addresses from April 27 2022 (included bonus of shareholder numbers voting for and against). However they weren't in these 2024 poll results via Link.

Iress (IRE): chair Roger Sharp got with the program via Computershare in 2024, including by disclosing the proxies the night before the AGM which showed about 200 of the 8,800 shareholders voted by proxy. It only rose to about 210 in the poll.

KMD Brands (KMD): started in 2023 after an AGM request and delivered again in 2024, via Link.

Kelsian (KLS): 10am Adelaide time physical only meeting. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.11 billion. Biggest protest 35% against rem but delivered extra voting disclosure via Boardroom.

Lifestyle Communities (LIC): responded positively to a question at the 2024 AGM when they got with the program. See voting results announcement via Computershare.

Metcash (MTS): responded positively to a request at the 2021 AGM and whilst not able to include the data in its ASX voting results announcement, did subsequently release it here on their website. There were against voters ranging between 216 and 409 on the 4 remuneration items and about 900 voters turned out in total. Backed it up with this effort in 2022 but then regressed in 2023 before coming good again in 2024 via Boardroom.

MFF Capital (MFF): see voting results via Boardroom from AGM held on October 2, 2024.

Mirvac (MGR): were in the sin bin for banning online participation at its 2024 AGM but they're straight out of it for voluntarily embracing scheme-like voting disclosure (via Link) without even being directly asked. No protests either. This is how you do it.

Myer (MYR): commenced in 2022 with this pre-AGM proxy votes disclosure and this meeting results announcement which showed just over 1,800 of the circa 42,000 shareholders turned out with the biggest against votes being 654 on the CEO's LTI grant, 486 on the rem report and 452 against Solly Lew's successful hostile candidate, Terry McCartney. Repeated the treatment in 2023 with both pre-AGM proxies which added % of stock voted metric and these poll results. New chair Ari committed to retain the practice but he is now gone. All delivered by Link.

Qantas (QAN): made the switch in 2023 when the poll results revealed the outcome by shares and shareholders. Thank you. However, only about 3,500 of the 178,000 shareholders bothered to vote, even after all that publicity. Did it again in 2024 via Link.

Suncorp (SUN): responded positively to a request at the 2024 AGM and disclosed these voting results via Link which showed around 1700 shareholders voted with Lindsay Tanner being the most unpopular director.

Tabcorp (TAH): responded positively to a request at the 2022 AGM and disclosed these voting results which showed 1,813 or 53.15% of the 3,411 shareholder who voted opposed the CEO grant to the LTI but in terms of shares, the support was 98.74%. The annual report claims it has just over 150,000 shareholders so the turnout was only 2.27% of shareholders but 65.5% or 1.457 billion of the 2.225 billion shares on issue were voted on the LTI grant. Backed it up with similar disclosure in 2023 and did it again in 2024 via Link.

Temple & Webster (TPW): 11am physical meeting at St Peters head office in Sydney. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.55b. No protests but delivered extra voting data via Link.

Ventia Services: responded positively to a request prior to their inaugural AGM in 2022 and disclosed these voting results which showed about 300 participated with strong support for all resolutions, even the rem report which was supported by 246 holders in the poll and only opposed by 58. However, they regressed in 2023 and failed again in 2024 with Computershare.

Webjet: responded positively to a request at their 2022 AGM and disclosed these voting results which showed about 800 holders participated with the tightest vote being the rem report which was supported by 566 holders in the poll and opposed by 210. However, chair Roger Sharp then regressed in 2023 before getting with the program over at Iress in May 2024 but then regressing at Webjet in 2024 via Computershare.

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