Research Report | By Blake Davidson, Austin Lee

Our research focused on 300 companies spread across five industry groups and divided equally among small-, mid- and large-cap segments. Covering the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, the key findings of our 2024 aggregate share-based compensation study are as follows.

Research Report | By Jose Furman, Ian Kim, Michael Kenney

FW Cook’s 2024 Annual Incentive Plan Report provides a comprehensive review of the annual incentive plans of the top 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. Annual incentive plans are critical tools used to align executive compensation with a company’s short-term goals and support talent attraction, motivation and retention objectives.

Research Report | By Shawn Lee, Zian Chen, Alec Lentz

Persisting economic uncertainties are challenging companies’ ability to establish long-term business forecasts and causing some to reassess long-term incentive plan designs. This Top 250 Report details executive long-term incentive practices at the 250 largest companies by market capitalization, with special focus on design trends that have emerged since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Report | By Sara Salzbank, Elaine Yim

FW Cook conducted a study of the use of ESG measures in annual and long-term incentive plans among the largest U.S. public companies, consisting of the 250 U.S.-listed companies in the S&P 500 with the largest market capitalizations as of April 30, 2023.

Research Report | By Shyam Patel, Shane Anderson, James Park

The 50th annual FW Cook Top 250 Report details long-term incentive practices and trends of the 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. This study focuses on understanding how long-term incentive (“LTI”) programs are currently designed and how they have evolved since the release of FW Cook’s 2021 report.

Research Report | By Lauren Shatanof, Blake Davidson, Rachel Gibbons

FW Cook has conducted a third study of the use of ESG measures in annual and long-term incentive plans among the largest U.S. public companies, consisting of 250 U.S.-listed companies in the S&P 500 with the largest market capitalizations as of March 31, 2022.

Research Report | By Voytek Sokolowski, Austin Lee

FW Cook’s 2022 Annual Incentive Plan Report covers annual incentive plan design practices among the 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. It focuses on understanding how annual incentive plans are currently designed and how they have evolved over a three- and six-year lookback period.

Research Report | By David Cole, Stephen Hom, Marco Pizzitola

FW Cook, FIT Remuneration Consultants and Pretium Partners are proud to present the second edition of our Global Top 250 Compensation Survey, which contains information on compensation levels for CEOs an CFOs, the design of long-term incentives, and share usage at the 250 largest listed companies globally.

Research Report | By Shawn Lee, Metin Aksoy

This 49th annual FW Cook Top 250 Report details the long-term incentive practices and trends of the 250 largest companies in the S&P 500.