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Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund (VXF) 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
Vanguard Index Funds 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 Vanguard Index Funds on 2026-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 97 MB)
TickersVXF (ETF Shares), VEXMX (Investor Shares), VEXAX (Admiral Shares), VIEIX (Institutional Shares), VEMPX (Institutional Plus Shares), VSEMX (Institutional Select Shares) · 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. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 96.4% of the time across 2,184 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 72 | 19 | 26.4% |
| Other social issues | 7 | 0 | 0% |
On 148 of the 27,813 ballot items in its filing part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 342,817 shares in all, 0.002% of the shares it voted. Every figure here counts the way most of its shares were cast.
Its filing lists 472 ballot items more than once, with different share counts (1,260 rows in all): parts of this fund’s shares were voted separately. Each such item is counted once here, with all of its shares, the way most of them were cast.
Its filing also lists 76,986 separately voted blocks, 1.02% of the shares it voted: the shares of investors who chose their own voting policy under Vanguard Investor Choice. The figures here count the fund’s own vote. How Investor Choice shows up in the filings →
What it holds
The largest positions this fund reported, as a share of the fund. Your slice of each is that percentage of your balance.
| Company | % of fund |
|---|---|
| Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 1.99% |
| Marvell Technology Inc | 1.18% |
| Cloudflare Inc | 0.90% |
| Cheniere Energy Inc | 0.84% |
| Snowflake Inc | 0.71% |
| Ferguson Enterprises Inc | 0.62% |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.60% |
| Strategy Inc | 0.54% |
| ROBLOX Corp | 0.51% |
| Bloom Energy Corp | 0.48% |
| Insmed Inc | 0.48% |
| Rocket Lab Corp | 0.41% |
SourcePortfolio holdings as reported by the fund for 2026-03-31 · open the filing
Ballots it voted
Albertsons Companies, Inc. · 7 August 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Regarding Food Waste Reporting.
AGAINST Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 6,327,082 shares
“Stockholder Proposal Regarding Food Waste Reporting.”
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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. · 18 June 2026 · 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 Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 1,451,534 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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
Albertsons Companies, Inc. · 7 August 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Albertsons 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 Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 6,327,082 shares
“Stockholder Proposal for a Report on Human Rights Policy and Human Rights Due Diligence.”
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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
SkyWest, Inc. · 5 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should an independent assessment check whether SkyWest respects the right to organise?
Shareholders asked for an independent assessment of whether the company, in practice, respects the internationally recognised rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining — the ILO core standards the company already says it supports — across all of its operations.
AGAINST Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 432,037 shares
“A shareholder proposal regarding collective bargaining 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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
To provide a report regarding internal diversity and inclusion policies and practices.
AGAINST Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 459,212 shares
“A stockholder proposal to provide a report regarding internal diversity and inclusion policies and practices.”
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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. · 22 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Regarding Disclosure of Employee Retention Demographics
AGAINST Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 833,002 shares
“Stockholder Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Employee Retention Demographics”
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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
Lumen Technologies, Inc. · 20 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Approval of a shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to vote for or against a poison pill.
AGAINST Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 10,325,403 shares
“Approval of a shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to vote for or against a poison pill.”
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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
Marvell Technology, Inc. · 25 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should the person who runs Marvell Technology 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 Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund voted with 9,681,075 shares
“To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman", if properly presented at the Annual 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.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-101977 · series S000002841 · open the filing
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