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Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund (FDGFX) proxy voting record 2026
Three of its ballots from this season. Vote first, then see what it did with the shares your savings paid for.
The question on the ballot
As filed
Fidelity Securities Fund files this fund's proxy votes with the SEC once a year. This is what it did with the shares your retirement savings paid for.
SourceProxy-voting record filed by Fidelity Securities Fund on 2026-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 20 MB)
TickersFDGFX, FDGKX (Class K), FGDEX (Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund: Class M), FGDGX (Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund: Class C), FGDHX (Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund: Class I), FGDJX (Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund: Class Z), FGDDX (Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund: Class A) · share classes of one fund, with one proxy-voting record · as listed in its latest SEC filing of proxy votes
How it voted, by issue
Fund companies sometimes file the same proposal under different subjects. So that funds can be compared, each proposal is counted under the subject most of the filings we read gave it, the same for every fund on this site. Counted by this fund’s own filing alone, 1 of its 92 shareholder proposals would sit under a different issue, or under none. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 97.8% of the time across 91 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 26 | 2 | 7.7% |
| Workers & human rights | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Corporate governance | 31 | 7 | 22.6% |
| Other social issues | 26 | 1 | 3.8% |
On 4 of the 1,630 ballot items in its filing part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 4,794,580 shares in all, 0.34% of the shares it voted. Every figure here counts the way most of its shares were cast.
Ballots it voted
NVIDIA Corporation · 24 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Nvidia publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 4,945,825 shares
“Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting reporting on greenhouse gas emissions from the use of our sold products.”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Alphabet Inc. · 5 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Alphabet publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
FOR Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 2,262,000 shares
“Shareholder proposal regarding an enhanced disclosure on climate goals”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Microsoft Corporation · 5 December 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Microsoft assess the human rights risks its own operations create?
Shareholders asked for an assessment of the human rights risks arising from the company’s operations and business relationships, and for the findings to be published.
AGAINST Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 1,197,200 shares
“Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Microsoft Corporation · 5 December 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Microsoft assess the human rights risks its own operations create?
Shareholders asked for an assessment of the human rights risks arising from the company’s operations and business relationships, and for the findings to be published.
AGAINST Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 1,197,200 shares
“Report on Human Rights Due Diligence”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Meta Platforms, Inc. · 27 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
FOR Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 564,500 shares
“A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Humana Inc. · 16 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should shareholders get a vote before Humana pays a departing executive?
Shareholders asked the company to seek shareholder approval for any severance package to a senior executive above a set multiple of salary and bonus — so that very large exit payments cannot be agreed by the board alone.
AGAINST Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 175,200 shares
“The stockholder proposal requesting shareholder approval requirement for excessive golden parachutes, if properly presented at the meeting.”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
NVIDIA Corporation · 24 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should a simple majority be enough to pass a measure at Nvidia?
Shareholders asked the company to replace its supermajority voting requirements with a simple majority, so that a measure supported by most shares actually carries.
FOR Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 4,945,825 shares
“Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting provisions in our charter and bylaws with a simple majority voting standard.”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Comcast Corporation · 10 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should the person who runs Comcast also chair the board that supervises them?
Shareholders asked the company to require that the chair of the board be an independent director rather than the chief executive, so that the body overseeing management is not led by the person being overseen.
AGAINST Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund voted with 1,904,142 shares
“Adopt policy to have an independent chair”
SourceFidelity Securities Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000754510-26-000125 · series S000007197 · open the filing
Other funds Fidelity Securities Fund votes
The same filer reports these alongside this one, in the same annual filing.
No 401(k) plan we index offers this fund. Its record is here because the fund files it with the SEC, as every fund must: whoever holds it, in an IRA, a brokerage account or a plan we have not indexed, the fund votes those shares as shown on this page.