General News

Median support for environmental proposals is down 700 basis points from 2018. Read more

242 Russell 3000 companies have held Say on Pay votes thus far in 2019, and the average vote support is 91.7%. No additional companies have failed Say on Pay since our last report, bringing the failure rate to 1.2%, or… Read more

One additional company (FuelCell Energy) failed Say on Pay since our last report, bringing the failure rate to 1.9%, or 130 basis points below the failure rate at this time last year. Read more

Our predictions this year are about average Say on Pay support, the percentage of companies failing Say on Pay, average Director election vote results, and enhancements to CEO Pay Ratio disclosures. Read more

Two of the predictions our team made at the beginning of the 2018 proxy season proved correct, while two turned out incorrect. Read more

To date, 2,028 Russell 3000 companies have held Say on Pay votes and four additional companies have failed since our last report. Read more

Semler Brossy’s recent Say on Pay Report, Nine Additional Companies Fail Say on Pay, was cited in Davis Polk’s Corporate Governance Briefings. A recent Semler Brossy report examining the relationship between 2018 CEO Pay Ratio and Say on Pay Results concluded that… Read more

To date, 1,909 Russell 3000 companies have held Say on Pay votes and nine additional companies have failed since our last report. Read more