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Vanguard vs Charles Schwab: how alike they voted, 2024-2025

95.5% When both took a single position, they voted the same way on 95.5% of 21,156 items (20,200 the same, 956 different). 1,016 items where at least one of them split its funds are listed separately below. Both voted on 22,172 items in all.

Vanguard 2024-2025 · Charles Schwab 2024-2025 · Download the item list (CSV)

By who put the item on the ballot. “Same position” = Same / (Same + Differ); split items are not in it. “Fund-level” is a second view over all common items: the chance that a fund of each manager, picked at random, voted the same way, which gives partial credit where a manager split.
	Common items	Same	Differ	Split (not in %)	Same position	Fund-level
All ballot items	22,172	20,200	956	1,016	95.5%	94.1%
Board proposals	20,727	19,024	883	820	95.6%	94.2%
E&S shareholder proposals	271	211	5	55	97.7%	95.2%
Other items	1,174	965	68	141	93.4%	91.1%

Where they did not vote alike

Everything Voted differently Split votes

All ballot items Board proposals E&S shareholder proposals Other items

209 items. “Voted differently”: each manager’s funds all voted one way, and the two ways differ. “Split”: at least one manager’s funds did not all vote the same way.

Company	Meeting	Proposal	On the ballot from	Board recommended	Vanguard	Charles Schwab
VECTOR GROUP LTD.	August 20, 2024	Advisory vote on a stockholder proposal requesting the Company to amend its governing documents to require the Chairman of the Board of Directors to be an independent director. Corporate Governance	Other	Against	Split 1 FOR, 23 AGAINST	AGAINST 7 funds
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC.	May 14, 2025	Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding excessive golden parachutes. Compensation	Other	Against	Split 6 FOR, 22 AGAINST	AGAINST 15 funds
VISA INC.	January 28, 2025	Shareholder proposal requesting adoption of a new director election resignation governance guideline. Corporate Governance	Other	Against	Split 6 FOR, 29 AGAINST	FOR 15 funds
VISTRA CORP.	April 30, 2025	To approve an amendment to the Company's certificate of incorporation (as amended and restated, the "Restated Certificate of Incorporation") to provide for the exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware Law. Director Elections	Other	For	Split 24 FOR, 1 AGAINST	FOR 13 funds
W. R. BERKLEY CORP.	June 11, 2025	A stockholder proposal regarding director election resignation governance policy, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting. Corporate Governance	Other	Against	Split 1 FOR, 29 AGAINST	FOR 13 funds
WAYSTAR HOLDING CORP	June 4, 2025	Approve an amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to remove the existing limit on the maximum size of our board of directors. Corporate Governance	Other	For	Split 2 FOR, 12 AGAINST	FOR 8 funds
WESCO INTE	May 22, 2025	Approve amendments to the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide Stockholders with the right to request a special meeting of stockholders. Corporate Governance	Other	Not determined	Split 22 FOR, 1 ABSTAIN	FOR 12 funds
WESCO INTE	May 22, 2025	Shareholder proposal to give Shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting. Corporate Governance	Other	Not determined	Split 2 FOR, 21 AGAINST	AGAINST 12 funds
XYLEM	May 13, 2025	Shareholder proposal to lower threshold for shareholders to call special meetings from 25% to 10% of Company stock, if properly presented at the meeting. Corporate Governance	Other	Against	Split 1 FOR, 21 AGAINST	AGAINST 13 funds

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How items are matched and positions counted: see the comparison table and the methodology. Built October 18, 2026 from SEC Form N-PX filings.