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Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund proxy voting record

Goldman Sachs Trust 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 Goldman Sachs Trust on 2025-09-02 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 90 MB)

How it voted, by issue

Proposals are grouped by the subject the filer itself recorded. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 91% of the time across 67 votes.

IssueProposals facedBackedShare backed
Climate & environment400%
Workers & human rights100%
Pay equity & inclusion100%
Executive pay100%
Corporate governance300%

Ballots it voted

The Timken Company · 2 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Timken 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  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 154,913 shares

“Consideration of a shareholder proposal requesting that the Company adopt independently verified short- and medium-term science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, inclusive of emissions from its full value chain.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. · 19 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings 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  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 132,737 shares

“Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts, if properly presented at the meeting.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

IDEX Corporation · 8 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights

Should Idex report on whether it hires people with criminal records?

Shareholders asked for a report on the company’s hiring practices for applicants with arrest or incarceration records, and on the business case for widening that pool.

AGAINST  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 74,169 shares

“Vote on a stockholder proposal regarding a report on hiring practices related to people with arrest or incarceration records.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

Texas Roadhouse, Inc. · 15 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion

Should Texas Roadhouse publish the workforce breakdown it already files with the government?

Shareholders asked the company to publish its EEO-1 report — the table of employees by job category, race and sex that it is already required to submit to federal regulators — instead of keeping it confidential.

AGAINST  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 155,251 shares

“An Advisory Vote on a Shareholder Proposal Regarding the Adoption of a Policy Requiring the Disclosure of Texas Roadhouse's Consolidated EEO-1 Report”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

The Timken Company · 2 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Should Timken be able to take back pay awarded on results that turn out to be wrong?

Shareholders asked the board to strengthen its clawback policy, so that bonuses and share awards can be recovered when they were earned on misstated results or on conduct that later causes the company harm.

AGAINST  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 154,913 shares

“Consideration of a shareholder proposal asking the Board of Directors to amend the Company policy on recoupment of incentive pay to apply to each Named Executive Officer and to state that conduct or negligence - not merely misconduct - shall trigger mandatory application of that policy and to report”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

Casey's General Stores, Inc. · 28 August 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Should the person who runs Casey's General Stores 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  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 65,659 shares

“Shareholder proposal regarding independent board chair policy.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. · 7 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Regarding shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.

AGAINST  Goldman Sachs Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund voted with 203,727 shares

“Stockholder proposal regarding shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceGoldman Sachs Trust, Form N-PX filed 2025-09-02 · accession 0001021408-25-004894 · series S000009322 · open the filing

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