Square’s Jack Dorsey – Tech’s Best Value Over Past 14 Months
We dipped into our CEORater database as we regularly do and ran a query to return the Technology stocks with the greatest stock price appreciation over the period January 3rd 2017 through February 23rd 2018.
We then took the Top 20 Technology Companies as measured by stock price appreciation during the period and asked the question: “Which of the 20 Technology CEOs were the best value in terms of CEO Compensation required to generate each percentage point of stock price appreciation?” For example, in the case of Mr. Dorsey at Square (tkr: SQ, Dorsey is also CEO at Twitter tkr: TWTR) who finished first on our list, for every $7 dollars of CEO Compensation the Company generated one percentage point of stock price appreciation.
Second on the list was Take-Two Interactive’s (tkr: TTWO) Strauss Zelnick at $183 of CEO Compensation for every percentage point of stock price appreciation generated. The table below details the Top 20 CEOs. Further, below the table each CEO name is linked to his/her CEORater profile page where additional detail may be found.
- Jack Dorsey, SQ
- Strauss Zelnick, TTWO
- Tobi Lütke, SHOP
- Lew Cirne, NEWR
- Jack McDonald, UPLD
- Michael D. Rumbolz, EVRI
- Matt Maloney, GRUB
- Guy Sella, SEDG
- Valentin P. Gapontsev, IPGP
- Martin Plaehn, CTRL
- Brian Halligan, HUBS
- Chip J. Paucek, TWOU
- Jayshree Ullal, ANET
- Vlad Shmunis, RNG
- Steven W. Streit, GDOT
- Kevin M. Sheehan, SGMS
- Philippe Courtot, QLYS
- Joey Levin, IAC
- Jen-Hsun Huang, NVDA
- Reed Hastings, NFLX