FedEx Freight Holding Company Management

Management criteria checks 0/4

FedEx Freight Holding Company's CEO is John Smith, appointed in Jun 2026, has a tenure of less than a year. total yearly compensation is $9.32M, comprised of 10% salary and 90% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.011% of the company’s shares, worth €2.14M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 0.2 years and 0.2 years respectively.

Key information

John Smith

Chief executive officer

US$9.3m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	9.98%
CEO tenure	less than a year
CEO ownership	0.01%
Management average tenure	less than a year
Board average tenure	less than a year

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has John Smith's remuneration changed compared to FedEx Freight Holding Company's earnings?
Date	Total Compensation	Salary	Company Earnings
May 31 2026	US$9m	US$930k	US$655m
Feb 28 2026	n/a	n/a	US$903m
Dec 31 2025	n/a	n/a	US$1b
Nov 30 2025	n/a	n/a	US$1b
Aug 31 2025	n/a	n/a	US$1b
May 31 2025	US$5m	US$900k	US$1b

Compensation vs Market: John's total compensation ($USD9.32M) is above average for companies of similar size in the German market ($USD5.81M).

Compensation vs Earnings: John's compensation has increased by more than 20% whilst company earnings have fallen more than 20% in the past year.

CEO

John Smith (64 yo)

less than a year

Tenure

US$9,323,100

Compensation

Mr. John Alan Smith is CEO, President & Director of FedEx Freight Holding Company, Inc. since June 01, 2026. Mr. Smith served as Chief Operating Officer of Federal Express Corporation for US & Canada at Fe...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
John Smith	President	less than a year	US$9.32m	0.011% € 2.1m
Marshall Witt	Executive VP & CFO	less than a year	US$1.86m	0.00066% € 128.1k
Clinton McCoy	Executive VP & COO	less than a year	US$1.47m	0.0012% € 229.0k
Michael Rodgers	Executive VP & CTO	less than a year	US$1.46m	0.00033% € 64.0k
Clement Klank	Executive VP & Chief Human Resources and Legal Officer	less than a year	US$1.95m	0.0034% € 652.1k
Guy Erwin	Senior VP & Chief Accounting Officer	less than a year	no data	0.0012% € 225.1k
Michael Lyons	Executive VP & Chief Specialized Services and Commercial Officer	less than a year	no data	no data

0.2yrs

Average Tenure

58yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: 30G's management team is not considered experienced ( 0.2 years average tenure), which suggests a new team.

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
John Smith	President	less than a year	US$9.32m	0.011% € 2.1m
Stephen Gorman	Director	less than a year	no data	0.0018% € 343.5k
R. Martin	Chairman	less than a year	no data	0.030% € 5.9m
John Sauerland	Director	less than a year	no data	0.00049% € 95.1k
Donald Frieson	Lead Independent Director	less than a year	no data	no data
Jeffrey Davis	Director	less than a year	no data	no data
Cindy Miller	Director	less than a year	no data	no data
Amy Salcido	Director	less than a year	no data	0.00025% € 48.5k
Robert King	Director	less than a year	no data	0.0055% € 1.1m
Samantha M. Smith	Director	less than a year	no data	0.083% € 16.1m

0.2yrs

Average Tenure

63.5yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: 30G's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 0.2 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/08/17 12:08
End of Day Share Price	2026/08/17 00:00
Earnings	2026/05/31
Annual Earnings	2026/05/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

FedEx Freight Holding Company, Inc. is covered by 10 analysts. 6 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Fadi Chamoun	BMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Jeffrey Kauffman	Citizens JMP Securities, LLC
Jonathan Chappell	Evercore ISI