---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000037785-24-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMC"
cik: "0000037785"
company_name: "FMC CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T03:24:14.776622+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FMC annual meeting elects board, ratifies auditor, passes simple majority vote proposal

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; C. Scott Greer received ~91% of votes cast (94.4M for vs 8.8M against).
- KPMG ratified as auditor for 2024 with 107.5M votes for, 6.6M against (94.2% support).
- Advisory 'say-on-pay' passed with 91.8M for, 11.2M against (89.1% of votes cast).
- Stockholder proposal to adopt simple majority vote approved with 101.9M for, 1.1M against (98.9% support).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000037785-24-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMC
- cik: 0000037785
- company_name: FMC CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/0000037785-24-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/fmc-20240430.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000037785-24-000042.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  FMC CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Audit Committee's approval for the continuing service of KPMG LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-04-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-30
  source text: The number of votes cast for, against and abstained with respect to this proposal is set forth below: Votes For: 107,474,727 Against: 6,592,523 Abstain: 331,922
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/0000037785-24-000042-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  FMC CORP shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company's named executive officers at the 2024-04-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-30
  source text: The number of votes cast for, against and abstained, and the number of broker non-votes, with respect to this proposal is set forth below: Votes For: 91,830,419 Against: 11,192,405 Abstain: 226,060 Broker Non-Votes: 11,150,288
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/0000037785-24-000042-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  FMC CORP shareholders approved Stockholder proposal requesting simple majority vote at the 2024-04-30 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-30
  source text: The number of votes cast for, against and abstained, and the number of broker non-votes, with respect to this proposal is set forth below: Votes For: 101,923,656 Against: 1,140,511 Abstain: 184,717 Broker Non-Votes: 11,150,288
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/0000037785-24-000042-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  FMC CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-04-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-30
  source text: Pierre Brondeau, Eduardo E. Cordeiro, Carol Anthony ("John") Davidson, Mark Douglas, Kathy L. Fortmann, C. Scott Greer, K'Lynne Johnson, Dirk A. Kempthorne, Margareth Øvrum, Robert C. Pallash, and Patricia Verduin, Ph.D. were each duly nominated for, and elected by the stockholders to our Board of Directors (the "Board")
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/37785/000003778524000042/0000037785-24-000042-index.htm

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