In the 2026 proxy season, all but one of the technology and life sciences companies included in the Fenwick Silicon Valley 150 List (SV 150) and all of the companies in Standard & Poor’s (S&P 100) held annual meetings. Generally, such annual meetings will, at a minimum, include voting with respect to the election of directors and ratification of the selection of the auditors of the company’s financial statements. They will also often include an advisory vote with respect to named executive officer compensation (say-on-pay).

Increasingly, annual meetings will also include voting on one or more of a variety of proposals that may have been put forth by the company’s board of directors or by a stockholder that has met the requirements of the company’s bylaws and applicable federal securities regulations.

This post summarizes key developments relating to stockholder voting at annual meetings in the 2026 proxy season among companies in the SV 150 and S&P 100. [1]

This year’s results also come against the backdrop of significant developments at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could reshape stockholder proposals in 2027 and beyond, which we discuss at the end of this post.

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