From a New York Times news article on Lloyd Blankfein's former Goldman Sachs colleague Harvey Schwartz taking over Carlyle Group: "Mr. Schwartz could earn up to $180 million over a five-year-period, if the stock outperforms most of its publicly traded competitors, Carlyle said in a filing Monday. That would come on top of an annual salary of $1 million and a bonus of up to $6 million a year."
When the urge to buy an individual stock hits me I usually try to lie down and wait until it passes, but given the incentives, it sure is tempting to bet on Schwartz to do what he needs to do to get the $180 million. Carlyle is now trading at a trailing price/earnings ratio of 7.9 and a forward annual dividend yield of 3.48 percent, according to Yahoo Finance.