As an example, Amazon's (AMZN) CEO, Jeff Bezos, is only 45 and his stock is up 147%. eBay's (EBAY) new CEO, John J. Donahoe, is 49 (according to Wikipedia), and the stock is up 55%. Yet if you examine IBM's (IBM) Sam Palmisano, who is 57, the stock is up a lot but doesn't beat the 55% threshold, returning only 51%. And Carol A. Bartz, who at age 60 is the CEO of Yahoo (YHOO), had a return of only 22%.
The following chart compares the CEO ages of Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), eBay (EBAY), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), and Yahoo (YHOO).

If you like interesting correlations, check out the article on the Revenues per Employee Ratio.
Author owns AMZN, AAPL, EBAY, MSFT, and YHOO.
By Stockerblog.com
1 comment:
Interesting analysis... There possibly may be a correlation with CEO age and stock performance. But, I think there has to be more data sample to make this point stronger. Good luck!
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