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WOODWARD INC. 2024-2025 Proxy Voting Records

Compiled from SEC Form N-PX filings and WOODWARD INC.’s Form 8-K, filed February 4, 2025 (Item 5.07 on EDGAR). Page generated November 1, 2026.

5Ballot items
450Asset managers
2,357Fund votes
January 29, 2025Meeting date

Results at a glance

Meeting of January 29, 2025: 5 items on WOODWARD INC.’s Form 8-K, filed February 4, 2025: 5 without a stated outcome.

Material dissent

Elect Director: Gregg C. Sengstack 79% of votes cast Outcome not stated Director under 80%

Material dissent: a director nominee under 80% of the votes cast, say-on-pay under 70%, any other item the board put forward under 80%, or a shareholder proposal with more than 50%, on the company’s own Form 8-K tally. How this is decided

Proxy season: 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026

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Official 2024-2025 meeting results reported by WOODWARD INC.

These tallies are WOODWARD INC.’s own, as disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, filed February 4, 2025 (Item 5.07, “Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”). They cover every share voted at the meeting, not just the funds that file Form N-PX.

WOODWARD INC. — official shareholder meeting results, meeting held January 29, 2025
Ballot item	For	Against	Abstain	Withheld	Broker non-votes	Support (of votes cast)	Reported outcome	Voting standard
Elect Director: Rajeev Bhalla	47,769,829	681,433	155,364	--	4,940,348	99%	Not verified	—
Elect Director: Eileen P. Paterson	46,269,535	2,296,118	40,973	--	4,940,348	95%	Not verified	—
Elect Director: Gregg C. Sengstack	38,360,431	10,179,046	67,149	--	4,940,348	79%	Not verified	—
2. Advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers	46,395,278	2,002,512	208,837	--	4,940,348	96%	Not verified	—
3. Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending September 30, 2025	52,138,162	1,370,684	38,128	--	0	97%	Not verified	—

Source: WOODWARD INC., Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on February 4, 2025 — read the filing on EDGAR.

How asset managers voted at the WOODWARD INC. 2024-2025 meeting

Each item below shows how the 450 asset managers that disclosed a WOODWARD INC. vote in their SEC Form N-PX filings actually voted. Share totals are the shares those managers' funds voted, summed across every fund they report.

1. Elect Director: Eileen P. Paterson

Outcome not verifiedDIRECTOR ELECTIONSReported outcome: Not verified

Combines 6 wordings of this item as funds reported it.

95% Majority: yes · of votes cast

FOR 95%

FOR: 46,269,535AGAINST: 2,296,118

Details: description as filed, official tally, votes by 104 asset managers

Description as filed by funds: Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three years: Eileen P. Paterson

WOODWARD INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Eileen P. Paterson”): 46,269,535 for, 2,296,118 against, per its Form 8-K filed February 4, 2025 (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: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 95% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 104 asset managers below reported 18,945,528 for, 857,447 against, 11,318 abstained.

FOR

FOR: 18,945,528AGAINST: 857,447ABSTAIN: 11,318

Largest asset managers voting on “Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three ye” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Abstain	Vote
Vanguard	5,925,402	0	0	For
BlackRock	3,709,062	0	0	For
Fidelity	1,938,111	0	0	For
Capital Group	1,652,025	0	0	For
State Street	1,082,564	421	0	For
JPMorgan	630,717	0	0	For
Charles Schwab	499,623	0	0	For
Dimensional	447,064	0	0	For
Global X	393,542	0	0	For
T. Rowe Price	362,284	0	0	For
Calvert	0	328,211	0	Against
Invesco	0	259,658	0	Against
Equitable	101,439	80,643	0	Mixed
TIAA	176,134	0	0	For
Goldman Sachs	5,113	160,124	0	Against
Jackson National	164,637	0	0	For
Royce	129,825	0	0	For
TRUST FOR PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS	99,455	0	0	For
Value Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund, Inc.	93,000	0	0	For
First Trust	92,460	0	0	For
AQR	88,896	0	0	For
Brighthouse	69,734	0	11,318	Mixed
John Hancock	73,150	0	0	For
Brown Advisory Funds	72,236	0	0	For
AIG/SunAmerica	66,987	0	0	For

Showing the 25 largest of 104 asset managers. See all 104 in the interactive database.

2. Elect Director: Gregg C. Sengstack

Outcome not verifiedDIRECTOR ELECTIONSReported outcome: Not verified

Combines 6 wordings of this item as funds reported it.

79% Majority: yes · of votes cast

FOR 79%AGAINST

FOR: 38,360,431AGAINST: 10,179,046

Details: description as filed, official tally, votes by 104 asset managers

Description as filed by funds: Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three years: Gregg C. Sengstack

WOODWARD INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Gregg C. Sengstack”): 38,360,431 for, 10,179,046 against, per its Form 8-K filed February 4, 2025 (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: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 79% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 104 asset managers below reported 14,859,908 for, 4,941,847 against, 11,318 abstained, 1,220 unknown.

FORAGAINST

FOR: 14,859,908AGAINST: 4,941,847ABSTAIN: 11,318UNKNOWN: 1,220

Largest asset managers voting on “Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three ye” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Abstain	Vote
Vanguard	5,925,402	0	0	For
BlackRock	4,177	3,704,885	0	Against
Fidelity	1,924,550	13,561	0	For
Capital Group	1,652,025	0	0	For
State Street	18,781	1,064,204	0	Against
JPMorgan	630,717	0	0	For
Charles Schwab	499,623	0	0	For
Dimensional	447,064	0	0	For
Global X	393,542	0	0	For
T. Rowe Price	362,284	0	0	For
Calvert	328,211	0	0	For
Invesco	259,658	0	0	For
Equitable	156,643	25,439	0	Mixed
TIAA	176,134	0	0	For
Goldman Sachs	165,237	0	0	For
Jackson National	164,637	0	0	For
Royce	129,825	0	0	For
TRUST FOR PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS	99,455	0	0	For
Value Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund, Inc.	93,000	0	0	For
First Trust	92,460	0	0	For
AQR	88,896	0	0	For
Brighthouse	69,734	0	11,318	Mixed
John Hancock	73,150	0	0	For
Brown Advisory Funds	72,236	0	0	For
AIG/SunAmerica	66,987	0	0	For

Showing the 25 largest of 104 asset managers. See all 104 in the interactive database.

3. Elect Director: Rajeev Bhalla

Outcome not verifiedDIRECTOR ELECTIONSReported outcome: Not verified

Combines 5 wordings of this item as funds reported it.

99% Majority: yes · of votes cast

FOR 99%

FOR: 47,769,829AGAINST: 681,433

Details: description as filed, official tally, votes by 104 asset managers

Description as filed by funds: Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three years: Rajeev Bhalla

WOODWARD INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Rajeev Bhalla”): 47,769,829 for, 681,433 against, per its Form 8-K filed February 4, 2025 (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: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 104 asset managers below reported 19,769,232 for, 33,743 against, 11,318 abstained.

FOR

FOR: 19,769,232AGAINST: 33,743ABSTAIN: 11,318

Largest asset managers voting on “Elect as directors the three nominees identified in this proxy statement, each to serve for a term of three ye” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Abstain	Vote
Vanguard	5,925,402	0	0	For
BlackRock	3,709,062	0	0	For
Fidelity	1,938,111	0	0	For
Capital Group	1,652,025	0	0	For
State Street	1,082,784	201	0	For
JPMorgan	630,717	0	0	For
Charles Schwab	499,623	0	0	For
Dimensional	447,064	0	0	For
Global X	393,542	0	0	For
T. Rowe Price	362,284	0	0	For
Calvert	328,211	0	0	For
Invesco	259,658	0	0	For
Equitable	182,082	0	0	For
TIAA	176,134	0	0	For
Goldman Sachs	165,237	0	0	For
Jackson National	164,637	0	0	For
Royce	129,825	0	0	For
TRUST FOR PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS	99,455	0	0	For
Value Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund, Inc.	93,000	0	0	For
First Trust	92,460	0	0	For
AQR	88,896	0	0	For
Brighthouse	69,734	0	11,318	Mixed
John Hancock	73,150	0	0	For
Brown Advisory Funds	72,236	0	0	For
AIG/SunAmerica	66,987	0	0	For

Showing the 25 largest of 104 asset managers. See all 104 in the interactive database.

4. 2. Advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers

Outcome not verified Fund totals may overlapSECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESReported outcome: Not verified

Combines 11 wordings of this item as funds reported it.

96% Majority: yes · of votes cast

FOR 96%

FOR: 46,395,278AGAINST: 2,002,512

Details: description as filed, official tally, votes by 443 asset managers

Description as filed by funds: Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.

WOODWARD INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers”): 46,395,278 for, 2,002,512 against, per its Form 8-K filed February 4, 2025 (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: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 96% 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: 105 asset managers voting on “Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Abstain	Vote
Vanguard	5,925,402	0	0	For
BlackRock	3,709,062	0	0	For
Fidelity	1,938,111	0	0	For
Capital Group	1,652,025	0	0	For
State Street	1,082,985	0	0	For
JPMorgan	630,717	0	0	For
Charles Schwab	499,623	0	0	For
Dimensional	447,064	0	0	For
Global X	393,542	0	0	For
T. Rowe Price	362,284	0	0	For
Calvert	328,211	0	0	For
2023 ETF Series Trust	298,820	0	0	For
Invesco	0	259,658	0	Against
Equitable	182,082	0	0	For
TIAA	176,134	0	0	For
Goldman Sachs	165,237	0	0	For
Jackson National	164,637	0	0	For
Royce	129,825	0	0	For
TRUST FOR PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS	99,455	0	0	For
Value Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund, Inc.	93,000	0	0	For
First Trust	92,460	0	0	For
AQR	88,896	0	0	For
Brighthouse	69,734	0	11,318	Mixed
John Hancock	73,150	0	0	For
Brown Advisory Funds	72,236	0	0	For

Fund voting reports, all 105 managers: 19,805,703 for, 300,069 against, 11,318 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports: 371 asset managers voting on “Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Vote
EAGLE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	3,553,522	0	For
State Street	2,306,809	0	For
BlackRock	1,965,773	437	For
Capital Research Global Investors	1,665,170	0	For
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	1,293,466	0	For
FARALLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	1,242,156	0	For
Fidelity	1,234,762	0	For
Duquesne Family Office LLC	1,225,750	0	For
EARNEST PARTNERS LLC	1,194,968	0	For
COOKE & BIELER LP	1,049,883	0	For
JPMorgan	775,278	0	For
NAYA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT UK LTD	703,043	0	For
Northern Trust	557,422	0	For
SNYDER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L P	515,244	0	For
T. Rowe Price	507,978	0	For
Charles Schwab	503,610	0	For
BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO	476,790	0	For
HAWK RIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP	464,505	0	For
MELLON INVESTMENTS Corp	408,200	0	For
Calvert	337,592	16,225	For
Invesco	0	334,890	Against
Two Sigma	312,045	0	For
AQR	301,620	0	For
JUPITER ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD	297,567	0	For
Alpha Wave Global, LP	248,018	0	For

Institutional-manager reports, all 371 managers: 27,902,751 for, 1,030,326 against, 5,999 abstained, 346 not voted. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

5. 3. Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting…

Outcome not verifiedAUDIT-RELATEDReported outcome: Not verified

Combines 6 wordings of this item as funds reported it.

97% Majority: yes · of votes cast

FOR 97%

FOR: 52,138,162AGAINST: 1,370,684

Details: description as filed, official tally, votes by 107 asset managers

Description as filed by funds: Ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025; and

WOODWARD INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending September 30, 2025”): 52,138,162 for, 1,370,684 against, per its Form 8-K filed February 4, 2025 (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: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 107 asset managers below reported 19,812,643 for, 542 against, 11,318 abstained, 1,220 unknown.

FOR

FOR: 19,812,643AGAINST: 542ABSTAIN: 11,318UNKNOWN: 1,220

Largest asset managers voting on “Ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm” at WOODWARD INC., 2024-2025
Asset manager	For	Against	Abstain	Vote
Vanguard	5,925,402	0	0	For
BlackRock	3,709,062	0	0	For
Fidelity	1,938,111	0	0	For
Capital Group	1,652,025	0	0	For
State Street	1,082,662	323	0	For
JPMorgan	630,717	0	0	For
Charles Schwab	499,623	0	0	For
Dimensional	447,064	0	0	For
Global X	393,542	0	0	For
T. Rowe Price	362,284	0	0	For
Calvert	328,211	0	0	For
Invesco	259,658	0	0	For
Equitable	182,082	0	0	For
TIAA	176,134	0	0	For
Goldman Sachs	165,237	0	0	For
Jackson National	164,637	0	0	For
Royce	129,825	0	0	For
TRUST FOR PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS	99,455	0	0	For
Value Line Small Cap Opportunities Fund, Inc.	93,000	0	0	For
First Trust	92,460	0	0	For
AQR	88,896	0	0	For
Brighthouse	69,734	0	11,318	Mixed
John Hancock	73,150	0	0	For
Brown Advisory Funds	72,236	0	0	For
AIG/SunAmerica	66,987	0	0	For

Showing the 25 largest of 107 asset managers. See all 107 in the interactive database.

Largest WOODWARD INC. shareholders voting in 2024-2025

Ranked separately for each type of Form N-PX report. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two tables can list the same shares and are never added together. Each is ranked by the shares voted on the item that the most managers of that type reported, shown as a share of the 59,130,924 shares outstanding at the time of that meeting.

Fund voting reports: top WOODWARD INC. shareholders by shares voted on “Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive…”, 2024-2025
#	Asset manager	% of shares outstanding
1	Vanguard	10.02%
2	BlackRock	6.27%
3	Fidelity	3.28%
4	Capital Group	2.79%
5	State Street	1.83%
6	JPMorgan	1.07%
7	Charles Schwab	0.84%
8	Dimensional	0.76%
9	Global X	0.67%
10	T. Rowe Price	0.61%

Institutional-manager reports: top WOODWARD INC. shareholders by shares voted on “Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive…”, 2024-2025
#	Asset manager	% of shares outstanding
1	EAGLE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	6.01%
2	State Street	3.90%
3	BlackRock	3.33%
4	Capital Research Global Investors	2.82%
5	GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	2.19%
6	FARALLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC	2.10%
7	Fidelity	2.09%
8	Duquesne Family Office LLC	2.07%
9	EARNEST PARTNERS LLC	2.02%
10	COOKE & BIELER LP	1.78%

Reported WOODWARD INC. holdings and ownership

As disclosed to the SEC in Form 13F (quarter-end holdings of 30 large managers), Schedules 13D and 13G (beneficial ownership above 5%) and the company’s own proxy statement (DEF 14A). Each row names its form.

WOODWARD INC. holdings and ownership disclosed for the 2024-2025 proxy season
Holder	% outstanding	Disclosure
BlackRock, Inc.	10.31%	DEF14A
The Vanguard Group	9.74%	DEF14A
Vanguard Capital Management	5.28%	13G
Eagle Capital Management, LLC	4.17%	13G
State Street	4.09%	13F
Capital Research Global Investors	2.81%	13G
JPMorgan Chase	1.85%	13F
FMR (Fidelity)	1.80%	13F
Norges Bank	1.24%	13F
Northern Trust	1.08%	13F

Percentages above are of 59,130,924 shares outstanding, as reported by WOODWARD INC. on its Form 10-K dated November 25, 2024 (see the filing on EDGAR). This is the count contemporaneous with the 2024-2025 meeting, not today’s. Each holding is as of its own filing, which may be dated before or after the meeting.

About this page

Every figure above is derived from filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission: Form N-PX, in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes), and Form 8-K Item 5.07, in which the company reports its own meeting results. Shares outstanding are taken from WOODWARD INC.’s 10-K dated November 25, 2024. This page is a static snapshot rebuilt weekly on November 1, 2026; a live search always shows the current data.

At WOODWARD INC.'s shareholder meeting held January 29, 2025, in the 2024-2025 proxy season, 450 asset managers reported how they voted on 5 ballot items in their SEC Form N-PX filings, covering 2,357 separate fund positions. On the most widely held item on that ballot — Vote on an advisory resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive… — FOR was 96% of the votes cast (FOR divided by FOR plus AGAINST, the conventional basis for proxy support; abstentions, broker non-votes and unvoted shares are excluded because none of them took a side), which is more than half. Whether the item was approved is for the filing to say; that statement has not been read for this item. Source: WOODWARD INC.'s Form 8-K, Item 5.07, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 4, 2025.

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