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January 8, 2015

Study: Alignment Gap Between Say-on-Pay Voting & Creating Value

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Here’s a new study authored by Organizational Capital Partners (and commissioned by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi)) that finds:

– Average Say-on-Pay support vote across the sample was 82% for 32 low performing companies (return on invested capital – or ROIC – less than the cost of capital and negative relative total shareholder return) and 84% for 32 high performing companies (ROIC greater than the cost of capital and positive relative total shareholder return).

– Median vote was 90% for the low performing companies and 96% for high performing companies.

– There was not a meaningful difference between the recommendations of the two major proxy advisor firms, ISS and Glass Lewis. ISS recommended for 84% Say on Pay approval at value destroying companies and for 81% of value creating companies. Glass Lewis recommended for votes at 72% of the value destroying companies and 81% of the value creating companies.

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