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Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund (VYM) 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 Whitehall 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 Whitehall Funds on 2026-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (proxytable.xml, 32 MB)
TickersVYM (ETF Shares), VHYAX (Admiral 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. Counted by this fund’s own filing alone, 2 of its 217 shareholder proposals would sit under a different issue, or under none. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 97.6% of the time across 468 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 48 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 125 | 12 | 9.6% |
| Other social issues | 24 | 0 | 0% |
On 17 of the 7,321 ballot items in its filing, 4 of them shareholder proposals, part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 268,991 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 65 ballot items, 6 of them shareholder proposals, more than once, with different share counts (150 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 28,353 separately voted blocks, 1.64% 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 →
Ballots it voted
Verizon Communications Inc. · 21 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Verizon Communications 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 High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 16,155,013 shares
“Board oversight of material issues related to climate change”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
The Coca-Cola Company · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Coca-Cola report on the single-use plastic it puts into the world?
Shareholders asked for a report on how much single-use plastic packaging the company uses, the risks that creates as regulation tightens, and what it plans to do to reduce it.
AGAINST Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 15,565,312 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report evaluating the Company's plastics packaging policies”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
Chevron Corporation · 27 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Chevron 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 High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 7,182,618 shares
“Commission a Third-Party Report on Human Rights Processes”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
PepsiCo, Inc. · 6 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should PepsiCo 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 High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 5,483,625 shares
“Shareholder Proposal - Report on Human Rights Oversight.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
The Coca-Cola Company · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Coca-Cola publish what its inclusion policies actually do for its workforce?
Shareholders asked for a report on the company’s LGBTQIA+ equity and inclusion efforts within its human capital management strategy — what the policies are, how they are measured, and what they have changed for employees.
AGAINST Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 15,565,312 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on the extent of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
AT&T Inc. · 14 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should AT&T 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 Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 27,732,374 shares
“EEO-1 Report Disclosure Policy”
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. · 28 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should shareholders get a vote before CF Industries Holdings 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 Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 645,699 shares
“Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder approval requirement for excessive golden parachutes, if properly presented at the meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
Fox Corporation · 14 November 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Improve Executive Compensation Program.
AGAINST Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund voted with 563,560 shares
“Improve Executive Compensation Program.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Whitehall Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0001104659-26-102158 · series S000014011 · open the filing
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