Annual general meeting

An annual general meeting, usually shortened to AGM, is a meeting a publicly listed company is required to hold once a year where shareholders vote on matters such as electing board members and approving executive pay. Any shareholder is generally entitled to attend, either in person or, increasingly, virtually.

The AGM is one of the main formal checkpoints where shareholders can hold management and the board accountable, ask questions directly, and vote on shareholder proposals. Most individual investors do not attend, but the meeting and its outcomes are typically publicly disclosed afterward.