Thursday, February 28, 2013

Merck's Executives Get 107 Per Cent Of Targeted Awards: From March 2010 Performance Share Units


The full picture of Merck's 2012 earned, vested, accrued and as-yet-unvested executive compensation levels (in cash, equity, perks and future pension benefits) will be revealed in an as-yet-unfiled SEC proxy statement. However, we just got an "early peek" at part of the haul -- as overnight, SEC Forms 4 were filed by all 14 of the Section 16 reporting executive officers of Merck -- including Chairman and CEO Frazier (his SEC Form 4 is here). Don't misunderstand: they certainly earned it, but it is right, well and good -- that it be widely-disclosed.

Sunshine is the best antiseptic, as ever -- it will prevent any excesses that might otherwise creep into the process, or the outcome (think legacy Schering-Plough, here)

And so, it would seem that the board's compensation committee has determined that the executives have over-acheived the targets laid out in that March 2010 installment of the the Executive Performance Share Units program.

Now we need to wait -- to read the full-narrative, in the proxy -- but here is the footnote to the Forms 4:

. . . .Distribution of net after tax shares of common stock on satisfaction of performance criteria for performance share units granted on 3/31/2010. Performance shares were paid out at 107 percent of target awards. . . .


More to come in mid-March, when the Form 10-K and Proxy, proper, are filed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

On a different note, I guess you saw this back on the 22Feb;
http://www.invivoblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/deals-of-week-wonders-what-mercks.html

I'm wondering a bit. Merck bought the S/P group in CA; Dnax (aka Schering Biotech). Why or where is the accountability associated with that group?

Just wondering

Condor said...

Thanks -- I did see that.

Just more of the same -- from those bad old days. Hopefully they have passed, with Mr. Frazier's new leadership at New Merck.

It is maddening, just the same. None of it had to be.

Namaste