Civitas Resources, Inc. 2025-2026 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 2, 2025, by and among SM Energy Company, a Delaware corporation ("SM Energy"), Cars Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct wholly owned subsidiary of SM Energy, and Civitas Resources, Inc. ("Civitas"), as it may be amended from time to time, a copy of which is included as Annex A to the joint proxy statement/prospectus; and

Civitas Resources, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“1. A proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 2, 2025 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among SM Energy, Cars Merger Sub, Inc., a direct wholly owned subsidiary of SM Energy ("Merger Sub"),”): 69,136,817 for, 1,304,552 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed January 27, 2026 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Stockholders approved a proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 2, 2025 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among SM Energy, Cars Merger Sub, Inc., a direct wholly owned subsidiary of SM Energy ("Merger Sub"), and the Company, pursuant to which (i) Merger Sub will merg…”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 102 asset managers below reported 29,609,356 for, 288,138 against, 91,260 abstained.

Showing the 25 largest of 102 asset managers. See all 102 in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Civitas' named executive officers in connection with the mergers (as defined in the joint proxy statement/prospectus).

Civitas Resources, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“2. Stockholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company's named executive officers in connection with the mergers.”): 60,434,236 for, 9,889,615 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed January 27, 2026 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Stockholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company's named executive officers in connection with the mergers.”
Support: 86% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 97 managers: 25,513,562 for, 4,180,604 against, 113,727 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 279 managers: 34,147,970 for, 7,637,496 against, 196 abstained, 817 not voted. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 3 managers: 179,702 for.

Institutional-manager reports, all 8 managers: 5,255 for, 5,332 against, 51,931 abstained.