total shareholder return

In 2009, the company's financial performance had improved and had a total shareholder return of 38.3 percent.

Previously, they were based on total shareholder return versus its peers and earnings growth.

Before, you had to achieve the total shareholder return or you got nothing."

The total shareholder return to which the roundtable compares executive pay does, however, include dividends.

In computing Campbell's total shareholder return, however, the company did not use the 29-company pay peer group as a benchmark.

Net income at Merck fell 15 percent last year, and total shareholder return dropped 28 percent.

To invest in a balanced portfolio of assets with the requirement to maintain total shareholder returns.

Temasek Holdings's total shareholder return is 17% compounded annually since inception in 1974.

A performance graph that shows the "yearly percentage change in the registrant's cumulative total shareholder return on a class of common stock" is required.

Weyerhaeuser underperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 in total shareholder return both in 2008 and over the previous five years.

"The bonus for management is tied to operational performance, not to the total shareholder return number," Mr. Smyth said.

Total shareholder return.

Mr. Blasi said his study "strongly suggests that executive excess in stock options did not help total shareholder return over the entire decade.

The total shareholder return, which includes share price rise and dividend payments, has a CAGR of 17pc since the company listed in 1996.

He offered the dividend as "evidence of a new RJR Nabisco," which he said is "a company now focused on cash earnings growth and total shareholder return."

Total Shareholder Return (TSR) (or simply Total Return) is a measure of the performance of different companies' stocks and shares over time.

It is ranked number one in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for total shareholder return over the past five years, with the share price rising from $12 in 2003 to $93 today.

Outputs included patents, technology transfer, and other R&D results; business performance, such as labor productivity and total shareholder returns; and the impact of innovation on business migration and economic growth.

Over the past year our total shareholder return grew by 19.2pc, and most encouragingly from our point of view the dividend - which is so important to many, many investors - accelerated to 3pc growth.

"Now, 50 percent of your options will vest on a total shareholder return measure," a spokesman, Mike Keohane, said, "and 50 percent in an adjusted earnings per share over a three-year period.

He said it had lowered target pay levels to the median of its peer groups, instead of the 75th percentile, and linked long-term performance pay to total shareholder return instead of per-share earnings.

Digital Realty ranked among the top four REITs in 2011 with a total shareholder return of 35.4% and has been regularly recognized as a leader in REIT performance.

Once Mr. Herringer clears that hurdle, though, he faces yet another: Transamerica's total shareholder return from the date of the grant must be at least at the median of its industry peer group's.

On the basis of 2010 profitability metrics, total shareholder return (TSR) and earnings per share growth, Lubrizol was the top performing company among the 16 chemical companies that are on the Fortune 500.

Yet, propelled by the consistent growth of its earnings and dividends, Conagra has been the star performer of the Standard & Poor's food group of stocks for the last decade, in terms of total shareholder return.