ROE v. Paid: Few Golden Geese in Materials Sector
Pity the chief executive in the lowly materials sector.
There are 34 companies that constitute the materials sector of the
S&P 500
. Only two chief executives among them --
DuPont's
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Charles Halliday and
Freeport-McMoran's
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James Moffett -- were among the 100 best-paid CEOs in the index, according to compensation figures provided by Aon Consulting's eComp Online database.
However, as today's "ROE v. Paid: Materials" chart indicates, the group falls a bit short in both the executive pay and corporate performance departments. Only 11 of the 34 companies notched return on equity, or ROE, above 15% on average over five years. (DuPont tops the ROE list.)
As part of
TheStreet.com'
s coverage of executive pay, the "ROE v. Paid" charts compare a company's average return on equity -- or ROE, a handy measure of how effectively a CEO puts shareholder money to use -- over the past five years with the chief executive's compensation. For compensation, we used the most recent figures provided by eComp Database -- the numbers include salary, bonus and options. (For more on our series, please read
this column.)
So, have the chieftains of the white-hot gold companies taken home a paycheck worthy of Midas? How do they stack up on ROE compared with their peers?
*Compensation figures were not available from eComp, so Yahoo! figures were used. |
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