Friday, August 30, 2019

Austin, Texas-Based Outdoor Lifestyle Products Company YETI Holdings Inc's Top-Tier Executive Pay Raise in Annual 2018 Over Annual 2017 Was a Completely Off-the-Charts 2,244%

The third Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate televised debate will be held in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019.  Texas is also the home state of Julian Castro and Beto O'Rourke, who have both gained significant momentum in the past month.

The key issue to Texas citizens should be the huge and continuing Income Inequality Expansion which is at the core of many critical problems the US faces.

Thus I will be doing research and making posts on the average pay raise per year that the Top-Tier Executives of Texas Companies were rewarded with in the past five ten years.  And I'll start with the large Texas Non-Oil & Gas Companies. 

The 53rd and FINAL Texas Non-Oil & Gas Company I am addressing here is YETI Holdings Inc.

From annual compensation information contained in a Company Proxy Statement and S-1 filings with the US SEC, the chart at the bottom below shows YETI Holdings Inc Top-Tier Executives (Just One) Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment in 2018 and 2017.  YETI Holdings went public in a late 2018 IPO.
  
YETI Holdings Inc's Top-Tier Executives (Just One) Average Pay Raise was an almost unbelievably off-the-charts 2,244%
 per year for the most recent year, which is by far the highest of the 53 large Texas Non-Oil & Gas Companies I have addressed so far.
  1. YETI Holdings +2,244% in just the past year
  2. Copart +320.8% per year for the past five years
  3. SailPoint Technologies +278.1% per year for the past two years
  4. Q2 Holdings +180.3% per year for the past five years
  5. Nexstar Media Group +152.2% per year for the past five years
  6. SolarWinds +114.4% per year for seven of the past ten years
  7. Reata Pharmaceuticals +99.5% per year for the past four years
  8. LyondellBasell +94.3% per year for the past five years
  9. American Airlines Group +85.9% per year for nine of the past ten years
  10. Helen of Troy +84.4% per year for the past ten years
  11. Upland Software +82.3% per year for the past five years
  12. Invitation Homes +78.6% per year for the past two years
  13. Tyler Technologies +61.2% per year for the past ten years
  14. Wingstop +54.2% per year for the past four years
  15. Builders FirstSource +50.9% per year for the past ten years
  16. Vistra Energy +50.6% in just the past year 
  17. Rackspace Holdings +50.2% per year for seven of the past ten years
  18. National Instruments +49.2% per year for the last five years
  19. Six Flags Entertainment +37.5% per year for the past seven years
  20. RealPage +29.2% per year for the past nine years
  21. Quanta Services +28.1% per year for the past ten years
  22. Celanese +27.8% per year for the last ten years
  23. Waste Connections +25.0% per year for the past five years
  24. Yum China Holdings +23.8% per year for the past 5 years
  25. Sysco +22.6% per year for the past ten years
  26. D R Horton +22.1% per year for the past five years
  27. Eagle Materials +20.5% per year for the past ten years
  28. Dell Technologies +18.8% per year for seven of the past ten years
  29. Cirrus Logic +18.0% per year for the past ten years
  30. Southwest Airlines +18.0% per year for the past ten years
  31. Sabre Corp +17.7% per year for the past five years
  32. Huntsman Corp +17.3% per year for the past ten years
  33. Cinemark Holdings +16.4% per year for the past ten years
  34. Westlake Chemical +16.1% per year for the past ten years
  35. Global Life +15.5% per year for the past ten years
  36. El Paso Electric Co +15.5% per year for the past ten years
  37. American Campus Communities REIT +15.4% per year for the past ten years
  38. Atmos Energy +14.4% per year for the past ten years
  39. AT&T +13.8% per year for the past ten years
  40. Waste Management +13.2% per year for the past ten years
  41. Match Group +12.2% per year for the past six years
  42. Calpine +11.2% per year for the past ten years
  43. Service Corp International +10.8% per year for the past ten years
  44. Camden Property Trust +10.4% per year for the past ten years
  45. Tenet Healthcare +10.3% per year for the past ten years
  46. Jacobs Engineering Group +8.7% per year for the past ten years
  47. Texas Instruments +7.2% per year for the past ten years
  48. Cullen/Frost Bankers +6.9% per year for the past ten years
  49. Crown Castle International +6.3% per year for the past ten years
  50. Kimberly-Clark +5.8% per year for the past ten years
  51. CenterPoint Energy +5.8% per year for the past ten years
  52. Lennox international +5.4% per year for the past ten years
  53. Silicon Laboratories +4.4% per year for the past ten years
There have been many US Government laws enacted in the past two decades that have substantially increased income inequality expansion but the only highly effective US Government law enacted by either party in the past two decades that has substantially reduced income inequality expansion is Obamacare and the political right is continually trying to repeal and replace it and three of the top four Democratic Presidential candidates now leading in the polls are effectively running as their principal issue to do in essence precisely the same thing ..... repeal and replace Obamacare ..... but to do it with either a pure or a version of Medicare For All.  

The pure Medicare For All advocated by both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and which was co-sponsored in a US Senate bill by Kamala Harris is off-the-charts enormously expensive and would take up an enormous amount of wasted time with no positive result since it has no chance of getting passed legislatively.  The US Government CBO hasn't been able to score the cost of a pure version of Medicare For All so far because the proposals have not been nearly specific enough.  If and when they are specific enough, the CBO scoring will make people shake in their boots and wonder just how any Presidential candidate could propose something so fiscally preposterous.  Just given their near-sighted stance on a pure version of Medicare For All, if the Democratic nominee is any of the three of them, it will be extremely difficult for any of them to beat Trump in the general election.  It is that simple.

On the other hand, if Elizabeth Warren got more rational and wisely altered her position some on Medicare For All, she would have a very good chance of beating Trump. 


My objective is to get a better handle on just why the US and particularly here Texas has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay raise percentages for the executives of a Company vs the many non-executive employees of a Company, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the company executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.

To fix Income Inequality driven mainly by Company and its Board of Director choices on Percentage Annual Pay Raises, the US Government should step in and pass wisely-designed, simple but effective Fair Pay Raise Income Inequality Narrowing Company tax incentives for rewarding non-executive employees with fair pay increases ..... the carrot ..... and Company tax disincentives for rewarding executive employees with clearly excessively high pay increases ..... the stick.  I am certain ..... it is simple math ..... that this tax proposal would be very effective in substantially reducing the huge income inequality expansion that has occurred for decades in annual percentage pay raises between company executives and the rest of the company employees. 

And the continuing annual net tax revenues raised by the US Government here should be set up in a separate fund to be used only for wise additional income inequality narrowing initiatives.  This fund should be run by an outside group made up entirely of minorities harmed the most by Income Inequality Expansion of the past decades  .....all women, all blacks, all Latinos, all other non-white people, all past and present union members, all LGBTQ, all non-employee contract workers and all middle and lower income people of all ages, including those retired.

Also, the US Government should require all US Corporate Boards to include at least one worker representative and to exclude any Company Executive.

FYE FYE FYE FYE
Dec Dec Dec Dec
YETI Holdings  2018 2017 2017 2016
Top-Tier Total Total Total Total
Executive Comp Comp Comp Comp
$ 000s $ 000s $ 000s $ 000s
Matthew Reintjes CEO     20,717          884  N/A   N/A 
Kirk Zambetti SVP Sales  N/A   N/A 
Robert Murdock SVP of Innovation  N/A   N/A 
Bryan Barksdale General Counsel  N/A   N/A 
Richard Shields Former CFO  N/A   N/A 
 Totals      20,717          884  N/A   N/A 
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 2244%  N/A 



Next Up ..... Large Texas Oil & Gas Companies.