Research Report | By Marco Pizzitola, Desmond Pang, Joe Sorrentino

Ensuring stability across the leadership team is an important factor in executing proper CEO succession, particularly as it applies to high-value individuals that may have been considered as CEO candidates themselves.

Research Report | By Sarah Lindenberg Cohen, Tom Kohn, Rachel Chiu

The 53rd edition of the Top 250 Report explores executive long-term incentive practices at the 250 largest companies by market capitalization, with an emphasis on how prolonged 5-year market volatility and uncertainty has influenced and shaped plan design and structure.

Research Report | By Warren Suh, Ezra Womark, Rachel Gibbons

FW Cook's 2025 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. This report examines trends in financial and non-financial metrics, goal-setting practices, and actual payouts, comparing findings over the past 3-year and 6-year periods.

Research Report | By Eric Graves, Nico Braverman, Serdar Sikca, Steven Cross

FW Cook's 2025 Director Compensation Report studies non-employee director compensation practices at 300 companies of various sizes and industries to analyze market practices in pay levels and program structure.

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

This third edition of the Global Top 250 Compensation Survey presents information on compensation levels for the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the design of long-term incentives, and share usage at the 250 largest listed companies globally.

Research Report | By Lauren Shatanof, James Lutz, Voytek Sokolowski

FW Cook presents information on long-term incentives granted to executives at the 250 largest U.S. companies in the S&P 500 Index, with special focus on trends over the last five years.

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.