Smithfield Foods, Inc. 2025-2026 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To elect the following nominees as Class II directors to serve until our 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders: Long Wan, Hank Shenghua He and Raymond A. Starling: Raymond A. Starling

Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Raymond A. Starling”): 368,046,086 for, 5,541,321 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed June 3, 2026 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Shareholders elected all three director nominees named in the 2026 Proxy Statement to the Company's Board of Directors to serve until the Company's 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or until such director's earlier death, resig…”
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 66 asset managers below reported 7,834,646 for, 851,342 withheld, 183,009 abstained, 23 not voted.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the following nominees as Class II directors to serve until our 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders: Long Wan, Hank Shenghua He and Raymond A. Starling: Hank Shenghua He

Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Hank Shenghua He”): 352,339,183 for, 21,248,224 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed June 3, 2026 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Shareholders elected all three director nominees named in the 2026 Proxy Statement to the Company's Board of Directors to serve until the Company's 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or until such director's earlier death, resig…”
Support: 94% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 65 asset managers below reported 2,887,468 for, 5,305,276 withheld, 655,004 abstained, 23 not voted.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the following nominees as Class II directors to serve until our 2029 Annual Meeting of Shareholders: Long Wan, Hank Shenghua He and Raymond A. Starling: Long Wan

The 65 asset managers below reported 1,794,845 for, 6,643,991 withheld, 408,912 abstained, 23 not voted. 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.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to our named executive officers in fiscal year 2025

Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“3. Advisory Vote on Approval of the Compensation of the Named Executive Officers”): 369,498,286 for, 4,053,422 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed June 3, 2026 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Shareholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers for fiscal year 2025.”
Support: 99% 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 66 managers: 8,640,914 for, 228,083 against, 23 not voted. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 185 managers: 21,268,736 for, 3,223,346 against, 141,233 not voted. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending January 2, 2027

Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“2. Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm”): 379,298,050 for, 424,737 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed June 3, 2026 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 3, 2027.”
Support: 99.8% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 67 asset managers below reported 8,869,773 for, 0 against, 23 not voted.

Showing the 25 largest of 67 asset managers. See all 67 in the interactive database.