Yahoo Finance How Much Did Seacor Holdings Inc.'s (NYSE:CKH) CEO Pocket Last Year?
Charles Fabrikant has been the CEO of Seacor Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CKH) since 2015. First, this article will compare CEO compensation with compensation at similar sized companies. Then we'll look at a snap shot of the business growth. Third, we'll reflect on the total return to shareholders over three years, as a second measure of business performance. This method should give us information to assess how appropriately the company pays the CEO.
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How Does Charles Fabrikant's Compensation Compare With Similar Sized Companies?
According to our data, Seacor Holdings Inc. has a market capitalization of US$850m, and paid its CEO total annual compensation worth US$4.4m over the year to December 2018. While this analysis focuses on total compensation, it's worth noting the salary is lower, valued at US$460k. We note that more than half of the total compensation is not the salary; and performance requirements may apply to this non-salary portion. As part of our analysis we looked at companies in the same jurisdiction, with market capitalizations of US$400m to US$1.6b. The median total CEO compensation was US$2.6m.
Thus we can conclude that Charles Fabrikant receives more in total compensation than the median of a group of companies in the same market, and of similar size to Seacor Holdings Inc.. However, this doesn't necessarily mean the pay is too high. We can get a better idea of how generous the pay is by looking at the performance of the underlying business.
You can see, below, how CEO compensation at Seacor Holdings has changed over time.
Is Seacor Holdings Inc. Growing?
Seacor Holdings Inc. has increased its earnings per share (EPS) by an average of 81% a year, over the last three years (using a line of best fit). Its revenue is down 1.2% over last year.
This demonstrates that the company has been improving recently. A good result. While it would be good to see revenue growth, profits matter more in the end. It could be important to check this free visual depiction of what analysts expect for the future.
Has Seacor Holdings Inc. Been A Good Investment?
Given the total loss of 3.2% over three years, many shareholders in Seacor Holdings Inc. are probably rather dissatisfied, to say the least. So shareholders would probably think the company shouldn't be too generous with CEO compensation.
In Summary...
We examined the amount Seacor Holdings Inc. pays its CEO, and compared it to the amount paid by similar sized companies. We found that it pays well over the median amount paid in the benchmark group.
Importantly, though, the company has impressed with its earnings per share growth, over three years. On the other hand returns to investors over the same period have probably disappointed many. One might thus conclude that it would be better if the company waited until growth is reflected in the share price, before increasing CEO compensation. If you think CEO compensation levels are interesting you will probably really like this free visualization of insider trading at Seacor Holdings.
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