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Evaluating Larry Ellison
Some hard statistics make a good case for thinking of Oracle's Larry Ellison as the best-performing CEO in the U.S.


by Tamina Vahidy, Line56
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

In recently browsing through Forbes Magazine, we came across a list of "20/20": CEOs who have produced at least 20 percent annualized returns for their companies across a period of at least 20 years. The list was produced partly in order to highlight CEOs who are worth their pay in this unfortunate age of $200 million golden parachutes for executive failures.

As it turns out, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is at the very top of that list, because he has achieved a 31 percent annualized return for Oracle over the past 29 years. No one else in the list, which was restricted to large enterprises, even cracked 30 percent....