ROKU INC CLASS A (ROKU)
Sector: Communication
2026 Annual Meeting Analysis
ROKU INC CLASS A · Meeting: June 11, 2026
Directors FOR
3
Directors AGAINST
0
Say on Pay
AGAINST
Auditor
FOR
Director Elections
Election of Class III Directors
Hastings has served since August 2011 and brings deep digital media and technology experience; Roku's 3-year stock return of +95.6% outperforms the company's disclosed peer group median by +86.8 percentage points, well above the 65-point threshold required to trigger a concern, so no performance flag applies, and no overboarding, attendance, or independence issues are present.
Hunt has served since August 2017 and contributes deep streaming industry expertise, including nearly 18 years as Chief Product Officer at Netflix; Roku's strong 3-year outperformance versus its peer group (+86.8pp versus the 65pp trigger threshold) clears the performance bar, and he holds only one outside public board seat (Sony Group Corporation), well within the two-seat limit for sitting public company executives, though he is not a CEO of that company.
Wood is Roku's founder and CEO and has served as a director since February 2008; as an executive director he is subject to the same TSR trigger as other directors, but Roku's 3-year return of +95.6% outperforms the disclosed peer group median by +86.8 percentage points against a 65-point trigger threshold, so the performance test does not fire, and no other policy flags are present.
All three Class III director nominees — Jeffrey Hastings, Neil Hunt, and Anthony Wood — receive a FOR vote. Roku's 3-year stock return of +95.6% outperforms its company-disclosed compensation peer group median by approximately 87 percentage points, comfortably exceeding the 65-point gap required to trigger a concern under the strong-positive-TSR tier. No overboarding, attendance below 75%, or independence issues were identified for any nominee.
Say on Pay
✗ AGAINSTCEO
Anthony Wood
Total Comp
$26,565,120
Prior Support
78.6%%
The proxy explicitly states that Roku does not tie any portion of executive compensation to specific performance goals — equity awards vest purely based on the passage of time and continued employment, with no financial targets, revenue milestones, or other measurable conditions attached. Under the voting policy, an incentive plan with no meaningful performance conditions means compensation is effectively fixed pay dressed up as variable pay, which is a No trigger regardless of pay level. The CEO's total reported compensation of $26.6 million is heavily equity-weighted (approximately 96%), which looks good in structure but fails in substance because those equity awards carry no performance hurdles — they will vest in full as long as Mr. Wood remains employed, regardless of how Roku performs for shareholders. While prior-year support of 78.6% clears the 70% re-engagement threshold and Roku's stock has performed well recently, the absence of any performance conditions on executive equity grants is a fundamental structural flaw that the policy requires be voted against.
Auditor Ratification
✓ FORAuditor
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Tenure
15 yrs
Audit Fees
$5,476,859
Non-Audit Fees
$3,790
Deloitte & Touche LLP has audited Roku since 2011, giving it approximately 15 years of tenure — well below the 25-year threshold that would raise a concern. Non-audit fees in 2025 were only $3,790 (access to an online accounting library) against audit fees of $5,476,859, a ratio of less than 0.1%, far below the 50% threshold. No material restatements were disclosed, and Deloitte is a Big 4 firm appropriate for a $17 billion company.
Overall Assessment
The 2026 Roku annual meeting presents three proposals: all three Class III director nominees receive a FOR vote based on strong stock performance versus peers and no governance red flags; the auditor ratification receives a FOR vote given low non-audit fees, appropriate tenure, and Big 4 status. The Say on Pay vote receives an AGAINST because Roku's executive equity awards — which make up approximately 96% of CEO pay — vest purely on time with no performance conditions attached, meaning the 'variable' pay functions in practice as guaranteed fixed pay, a structural flaw that fails the policy's pay-for-performance alignment requirement.
Compensation Peer Group
18 companies disclosed in 2026 proxy filing