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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.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 3 | 0 | 0% |
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.”

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.”

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.”

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”

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”

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.”

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.”

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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