ROE v. Paid: Few Golden Geese in Materials Sector

These companies tend to lag in ROE, but their pay packages are also relatively modest.
By Stephen Schurr ,

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.
Source: TheStreet.com, Bloomberg, eComp Online, Yahoo!

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