HSBC 2010 Annual Report Download - page 374

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Shareholder Information (continued)
Stock symbols / Shareholder profile / Annual General Meeting / IMS and interim results / Shareholder enquiries
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Stock symbols
HSBC Holdings ordinary shares trade under the following stock symbols:
London Stock Exchange HSBA
Hong Kong Stock Exchange 5
New York Stock Exchange (ADS) HBC
Euronext Paris HSB
Bermuda Stock Exchange HSBC
Shareholder profile
At 31 December 2010 the share register recorded the following details:
Ordinary shares held
Number of
shareholders
Total
shares held
1-100 ........................................................................................................................................................ 33,908 1,050,278
101-400 .................................................................................................................................................... 31,146 7,620,110
401-500 .................................................................................................................................................... 8,176 3,678,368
501-1,000 ................................................................................................................................................. 33,298 24,239,122
1,001-5,000 .............................................................................................................................................. 73,788 171,912,626
5,001-10,000 ............................................................................................................................................ 18,775 132,126,979
10,001-20,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 10,913 151,898,993
20,001-50,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 6,648 204,466,829
50,001-200,000 ........................................................................................................................................ 3,223 298,496,753
200,001-500,000 ...................................................................................................................................... 754 237,056,817
500,001 and above ................................................................................................................................... 1,104 16,453,609,027
Total ......................................................................................................................................................... 221,733 17,686,155,902
Annual General Meeting
The 2011 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London EC2 on Friday,
27 May 2011 at 11.00am.
An informal meeting of shareholders will be held at 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong on Thursday, 19 May 2011
at 4.30pm.
All resolutions considered at the 2010 Annual General Meeting were passed on a poll as follows:
Total votes
Resolution For1 Against Vote withheld2
1 To receive the Report and Accounts for 2009 ................................................ 6,944,544,740 39,714,613 430,598,977
2 To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for 2009 ............................ 5,730,566,528 856,535,768 820,187,860
3 To re-elect the following as Directors:
(a) R A Fairhead .......................................................................................... 7,296,815,167 101,823,159 15,277,590
(b) M F Geoghegan ...................................................................................... 7,334,050,341 32,961,299 47,188,185
(c) S K Green ............................................................................................... 6,977,475,948 323,769,338 112,927,709
(d) G Morgan ...............................................................................................
7,268,685,057 130,023,850 15,410,295
(e) N R N Murthy ........................................................................................ 7,378,931,192 19,477,921 15,363,215
(f) S M Robertson ........................................................................................ 7,153,405,009 244,795,070 15,607,399
(g) J L Thornton ........................................................................................... 6,704,405,938 234,358,448 469,120,496
(h) Sir Brian Williamson .............................................................................. 7,380,522,401 18,038,078 15,323,823
4 To reappoint the Auditor at remuneration to be determined by the
Group Audit Committee ............................................................................. 7,359,819,272 18,027,604 36,351,240
5 To authorise the Directors to allot shares ....................................................... 7,264,724,799 135,841,801 16,628,621
6 To disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) .................................... 7,319,169,089 79,046,168 18,836,871
7 To alter the Articles of Association (Special Resolution) .............................. 7,362,315,126 32,851,046 21,846,012
8 To approve the extension of the term of the Share Incentive Plan and the
establishment of new share ownership plans ............................................. 7,358,291,988 28,253,519 30,640,176
9 To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) being
called on a minimum of 14 clear days’ notice (Special Resolution) ......... 7,050,768,076 322,799,315 43,639,277
1 Includes discretionary votes.
2 A ‘Vote Withheld’ is not a ‘vote’ in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes ‘For’ and ‘Against’ the resolution.