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The CEO of Future Data Group Limited (HKG:8229) is Seung Han Lee. First, this article will compare CEO compensation with compensation at similar sized companies. Next, we'll consider growth that the business demonstrates. And finally we will reflect on how common stockholders have fared in the last few years, as a secondary measure of performance. This method should give us information to assess how appropriately the company pays the CEO.
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How Does Seung Han Lee's Compensation Compare With Similar Sized Companies?
At the time of writing our data says that Future Data Group Limited has a market cap of HK$79m, and is paying total annual CEO compensation of HK$1.6m. (This number is for the twelve months until December 2018). While we always look at total compensation first, we note that the salary component is less, at HK$1.3m. We looked at a group of companies with market capitalizations under HK$1.6b, and the median CEO total compensation was HK$1.8m.
So Seung Han Lee is paid around the average of the companies we looked at. Although this fact alone doesn't tell us a great deal, it becomes more relevant when considered against the business performance.
You can see a visual representation of the CEO compensation at Future Data Group, below.
Is Future Data Group Limited Growing?
Future Data Group Limited has increased its earnings per share (EPS) by an average of 22% a year, over the last three years (using a line of best fit). In the last year, its revenue is up 16%.
Overall this is a positive result for shareholders, showing that the company has improved in recent years. This sort of respectable year-on-year revenue growth is often seen at a healthy, growing business. We don't have analyst forecasts, but you might want to assess this data-rich visualization of earnings, revenue and cash flow.
Has Future Data Group Limited Been A Good Investment?
With a three year total loss of 50%, Future Data Group Limited would certainly have some dissatisfied shareholders. It therefore might be upsetting for shareholders if the CEO were paid generously.
In Summary...
Remuneration for Seung Han Lee is close enough to the median pay for a CEO of a similar sized company .
We like that the company is growing EPS, but we find the returns over the last three years to be lacking. Considering the the positives we don't think the CEO pays is too high, but it's certainly hard to argue it is too low. Shareholders may want to check for free if Future Data Group insiders are buying or selling shares.