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Voting Analytics® for Corporate Issuers

Tools to help issuers monitor and analyze voting trends and results

Based on SEC N-PX filings and other public disclosures, Voting Analytics® is the industry's only solution for monitoring and analyzing voting policies, meeting results and institutional voting patterns. Our database features more than five years of vote results for Russell 300 companies on over 50 governance issues, including executive compensation, board practices and mergers and acquisitions, as well as over three years of director election results.

By leveraging this data, you can benchmark proposal success rates, assess voting trends, develop stronger proposals and provide strategic insight on institutional investors or proposal outcomes to your executive management and board. Voting Analytics' web interface and advanced screening functionality makes it easy to identify voting trends based on policies and results, research proposal outcomes and aggregate voting statistics.

Benefits of Voting Analytics for Corporate Issuers

  • Anticipate the future voting behavior of institutional investors by understanding their past votes and voting policies
  • Design stronger proxy proposals by understanding the issues and policies that drive institutional voting practices
  • Benchmark proposal frequency and success rates before you issue your proxy, using sophisticated peer analysis tools
  • Evaluate the spread of shareholder opinion on major issues, leveraging institutional voting records on a wide range of proposal types
  • Better structure and manage communications with institutions by researching current and potential investors and their "hot-button" issues
  • Research current shareholder proposals and their proponents

Voting Analytics is delivered through Governance Analytics for Corporate Issuers, the industry's most powerful, integrated web-based platform for corporate governance.

For one-time analysis of a specific proposal type, or more hands-on assistance with your analysis, we also offer a Vote Analysis Service which identifies voting trends, factors driving voting outcomes, and peer vote comparisons.

Voting Analytics Data
  • Vote Results
    • View summary voting results for individual meetings, including For or Against, Abstain, Vote With Management Recommendations and more.
  • Vote Records
    • Benchmark your voting records against your peers by viewing their voting records, sorted by proposal type.
  • Vote Patterns
    • Determine if your policy is in line with best practices by viewing voting results for specific institutional investors, sorted by the type of proposal.
  • Voting Policies
    • Click-through functionality to access an institution's published voting policies and guidelines.
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