CEO pay vs performance: executive compensation by company
Since 2023 the SEC has required every proxy statement to tag what the CEO was paid alongside what shareholders actually earned, and alongside the return of a peer group the company picks itself. We read those tags from 3,084 companies' filings and rank them by the gap. Two figures appear for pay: the headline total, and the SEC's mark-to-market number that revalues unvested equity at year end, the one that falls when the stock falls.
Paid the most while trailing the peer group they chose
Gap is the company's cumulative shareholder return minus
its own peer group's, in index points, over the disclosure period
TICKER
COMPANY
CEO TOTAL
ACTUALLY PAID
VS PEERS
QRVOQorvo, Inc.
Bruggeworth · FY2025
$13.6M
$18.5M
-430pts
PETSPETMED EXPRESS INC
Akdag · FY2020
$2.2M
$2.4M
-371pts
SPTSprout Social, Inc.
Barretto · FY2025
$3.3M
-$364.7K
-318pts
OLEDUNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORP \PA\
Chief executive · FY2025
$8.9M
$2.8M
-317pts
AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
Lisa Su · FY2025
$55.2M
$146.7M
-313pts
QMCOQUANTUM CORP /DE/
Lerner · FY2024
$1.5M
$2.2M
-309pts
RNGRingCentral, Inc.
Vladimir Shmunis · FY2024
$15.5M
$14.1M
-280pts
CRSRCorsair Gaming, Inc.
Chief executive · FY2025
$1.2M
$3.8M
-242pts
BANDBandwidth Inc.
David A. Morken · FY2025
$7.6M
$8.5M
-238pts
GTMZoomInfo Technologies Inc.
Schuck · FY2025
$33.3M
$35.3M
-237pts
APPNAPPIAN CORP
Chief executive · FY2025
$2.9M
$760.2K
-237pts
RPAYRepay Holdings Corp
Chief executive · FY2024
$8.6M
$4.7M
-234pts
CLFCLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.
Lourenco Goncalves · FY2025
$19.0M
$20.5M
-234pts
ZMZoom Communications, Inc.
Eric S. Yuan · FY2025
$1.3M
-$680.3K
-232pts
BILLBILL Holdings, Inc.
Rene Lacerte · FY2024
$16.1M
$14.3M
-231pts
FLEXFLEX LTD.
Revathi Advaithi · FY2025
$44.4M
$169.4M
-227pts
PPLIPeople Inc
Chief executive · FY2025
$17.6M
-$22.5M
-226pts
MAXMediaAlpha, Inc.
Yi. · FY2025
$7.0M
$9.4M
-225pts
OKTAOkta, Inc.
Todd McKinnon · FY2025
$36.8M
$15.7M
-223pts
ESTCElastic N.V.
Ashutosh Kulkarni · FY2024
$9.7M
$3.7M
-219pts
YEXTYext, Inc.
Howard Lerman · FY2025
$8.7M
$15.6M
-215pts
PATHUiPath, Inc.
Dines · FY2025
$1.3M
$1.3M
-214pts
LCIDLucid Group, Inc.
Rawlinson · FY2024
$1.5M
-$6.5M
-212pts
AMBAAMBARELLA INC
Feng-Ming (Fermi) Wang · FY2025
$7.4M
$3.6M
-209pts
POWIPOWER INTEGRATIONS INC
Balakrishnan · FY2024
$8.6M
$8.8M
-209pts
Paid, and beat the peer group they chose
Gap is the company's cumulative shareholder return minus
its own peer group's, in index points, over the disclosure period
TICKER
COMPANY
CEO TOTAL
ACTUALLY PAID
VS PEERS
OGNOrganon & Co.
Kevin Ali · FY2024
$17.1M
$16.4M
+4675pts
AMRAlpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc.
Eidson · FY2023
$6.1M
$32.6M
+3699pts
SEZLSezzle Inc.
Chief executive · FY2025
$1.1M
$5.5M
+3384pts
SNDKSandisk Corp
Goeckeler · FY2026
$10.5M
n/a
+3215pts
SMCISuper Micro Computer, Inc.
Liang · FY2023
$28.1M
$409.4M
+2643pts
CLSCELESTICA INC
Robert A. Mionis · FY2025
$17.4M
$320.8M
+2496pts
CIFRCipher Digital Inc.
Rodney Tyler Page · FY2025
$15.0M
$155.5M
+2487pts
DAVEDave Inc./DE
Chief executive · FY2025
$10.2M
$102.2M
+2214pts
CLDXCelldex Therapeutics, Inc.
Anthony S. Marucci. · FY2023
$8.4M
$3.7M
+1619pts
FIXCOMFORT SYSTEMS USA INC
Lane · FY2025
$10.6M
$21.2M
+1595pts
CRSCARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP
Chief executive · FY2025
$12.4M
$72.2M
+1480pts
WGSGeneDx Holdings Corp.
Katherine Stueland · FY2025
$13.5M
$43.4M
+1355pts
MODMODINE MANUFACTURING CO
Chief executive · FY2025
$10.2M
$80.5M
+1289pts
CRDOCredo Technology Group Holding Ltd
William (Bill) Brennan · FY2025
$14.4M
$76.3M
+1256pts
NVDANVIDIA CORP
Jen-Hsun Huang · FY2025
$36.3M
$162.2M
+1248pts
BBWBUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC
John · FY2025
$3.4M
$5.0M
+1196pts
STRLSTERLING INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.
Cutillo · FY2025
$8.4M
$35.3M
+994pts
AVGOBroadcom Inc.
Hock E. Tan · FY2025
$205.3M
n/a
+939pts
STXSeagate Technology Holdings plc
William D. Mosley · FY2026
$26.9M
$606.4M
+844pts
LEUCENTRUS ENERGY CORP
Poneman · FY2025
$2.2M
$6.9M
+830pts
APPAppLovin Corp
Adam Foroughi · FY2025
$13.0M
$21.7M
+799pts
DDSDILLARD'S, INC.
William Dillard, II · FY2024
$4.9M
$5.7M
+782pts
TTITETRA TECHNOLOGIES INC
Chief executive · FY2025
$5.1M
$8.7M
+761pts
VSTVistra Corp.
Curtis A. Morgan (PEO) · FY2025
$16.0M
$40.7M
+753pts
BTUPEABODY ENERGY CORP
James C.Grech · FY2024
$7.0M
$7.3M
+709pts
The peer group is chosen by the company, not by us and not by a
regulator. A company that selects flattering peers will look better
here, and that choice is itself disclosed in the proxy.
A negative gap does not mean the CEO was overpaid; pay is set before
the year is known. It means the money and the outcome pointed in
different directions, which is the fact the disclosure rule was
written to expose.
Only companies paying over $1.0M are ranked, below that a
percentage gap is arithmetic noise rather than a finding.
