Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
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Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 130
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 shareowners but opposed by a status quo management.

This proposal topic won from 74% to 88% support at Weyerhaeuser, Alcoa, Waste Management, Goldman Sachs, FirstEnergy and Macy’s. These votes would have been higher than 74% to 88% if more shareholders had access to independent proxy voting advice.

This proposal topic, as a shareholder proposal, received 98%-support at the 2023 annual meetings of American Airlines and The Carlyle Group. This proposal topic also received 98% support each at Domino’s Pizza, FMC Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Masco Corporation and Power Integrations in 2024.

The overwhelming shareholder support for this proposal topic at hundreds of major companies raises the question of why Boston Scientific has not initiated this proposal topic on its own. It also raises the question that Boston Scientific may be overlooking other areas of corporate governess improvement that could easily be adopted at virtually no cost.

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#### Support Simple Majority Vote - Proposal 4

#### 1102025 Proxy Statement
Proposal 4: Stockholder Proposal Titled “Support Simple Majority Vote”

#### Board Response and Recommendation
Our Board makes no recommendation on this proposal.

Although we disagree with some of the opinions in the proposal’s supporting statement, the Board is not recommending a vote for or against the proposal. Rather, the Board is interested in the viewpoints of the Company’s stockholders and will evaluate the voting results on the proposal, together with additional stockholder input received in the course of regular stockholder engagements, in determining what actions it will take. This proposal is advisory in nature only and approval of this proposal would not, by itself, implement a majority vote standard as described in the proposal.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement111

#### Stockholder Proposals and Company Information

#### Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations
In accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and the current advance notice provisions of our By-Laws, stockholder proposals and director nominations for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders must be received by our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive office no earlier than January 1, 2026 and no later than January 31, 2026, and under the proxy access provisions of our By-Laws, director nominations submitted for inclusion in our 2026 Annual Proxy Statement must be received no earlier than October 20, 2025 and no later than November 19, 2025