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Apple, Dreamworks, Yahoo!: Do $1 a Year CEOs Really Boost Stock Value?

HI Dave

I liked your thorough analysis about how the $1 a year guys really get paid. However, when I posted my "$1 a year salary CEO: Good for Stocks?"article, it wasn't meant to be a scientific analysis, as I would need a sample of at least 30 to determine statistical significance. As you are aware, the total population of companies with $1 a year CEO's is very small.
My article was more of a general observation using the assumption that if the CEO's are compensated primarly by price performance (either options or restricted stock), then it would seem that the stock performance should be good.
If enough executives are paid this way, then it can actually add pennies per share to company earnings. National Student Marketing Corp. tried this in the 1970's with ALL their employees, and it helped the earnings and stock price enormously (before the company went out of business).

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Apple Options Rumors: Getting to the Core

Great article. I totally agree with your opinions on this, especially on the unusual timing of this news prior to MacWorld. I discussed the MacWorld and Apple stock price 'Correlation' a couple weeks ago in my article hardware.seekingalpha....