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Scotts Miracle-Gro 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund is the largest fund in the Scotts Miracle-Gro plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

Scotts Miracle-Gro 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $5,240 per active participant
$24m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $5,820 each
$27m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$109,900
6,294 people with a balance
In the plan
$691m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 4,612 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 THE SCOTTS COMPANY LLC as “THE SCOTTS COMPANY LLC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 311414921, plan number 001 · search the filings

These are the funds in the Scotts Miracle-Gro retirement plan whose voting records we can trace, taken from the plan’s own annual filing. The figures show what each one did with shareholder proposals.

SourceThe fund menu is the list of investments in Scotts Miracle-Gro’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund” 0 of 120 of 3 0 of 396.4%
Dodge & Cox Stock Fund listed as “Dodge and Cox Stock Fund Class X” 0 of 150 of 5 0 of 195.1%
Fidelity Puritan Fund listed as “Fidelity Puritan Fund Class K” 3 of 320 of 12 —97.1%

What this means for you

Most people are in whichever fund their plan made the default, and never look again. The figures above are the part nobody shows you when you pick: not the fee, not last year's return, but what the fund did with the shares your savings paid for.

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