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O Reilly Automotive 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $1.27bn of the $2.13bn in the O Reilly Automotive plan votes in secret. Fidelity 500 Index Fund, the most common fund in the plans we track, publishes every vote: answer 3 of its ballots, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

O Reilly Automotive 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $650 per active participant
$52m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $1,670 each
$134m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$26,500
70,527 people with a balance
In the plan
$1.87bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 80,513 active participants, including anyone who did not contribute. The filing reports dollars, not the match formula; the plan’s summary plan description states the formula.

SourceThe plan’s annual report to the Department of Labor — Form 5500, Schedule H, plan year 2024 · filed by O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE, INC. as “O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE, INC. PROFIT SHARING AND SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 274358837, plan number 002 · search the filings

The O Reilly Automotive 401(k) holds $2.13bn. Of the $1.27bn we could identify from the plan’s own filing, every dollar sits in a fund that publishes no record of how it voted your shares — collective trusts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.

SourceO Reilly Automotive’s own annual retirement-plan filing with the SEC (Form 11-K, Schedule of Assets) · open the filing

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
O Reilly Automotive, Inc. common stock (1) Employer stock Voted by the plan trustee $598m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2035 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $188m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2040 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $159m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $157m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2045 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $156m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2050 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $143m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2055 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $125m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $111m
Fidelity 500 Index Fund (1) Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $80m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2060 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $76m
Participant loans (interest rates ranging from 4.25 % to 10.25 %; maturities through 11/23/2040) (1) Participant loans No shares to vote $62m
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020 Trust, K Collective trust or separate account NONE $55m

The 12 largest holdings in the plan. “Vehicle” is the description the filing itself gives each investment.

Why there is nothing to show

A mutual fund has to file Form N-PX every year listing every vote it cast on your behalf. A collective investment trust does not. It is a bank-run vehicle sold only inside retirement plans, it is cheaper, and it is now where most 401(k) default money sits — including most target-date funds, which is where savers who never chose anything are put.

So the shares bought with O Reilly Automotive employees’ retirement savings are voted every proxy season — on executive pay, on board seats, on climate and workforce proposals — and there is no public document anywhere recording how. This is not an oversight by O Reilly Automotive; it is what the disclosure rules currently require, which is to say: nothing.

What you can do

Check whether your plan offers any registered fund as an alternative — those publish their records, and you can read them here. If it does not, the menu itself is the thing that has to change, and that is a decision made by the plan’s fiduciary committee, not by you alone.

See how funds that do publish voted →

CoverageWe classified 91% of this plan’s assets from the filing. The figure above is the share of the money we could classify; anything we could not identify is excluded from it rather than assumed either way.

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