EQT Corporation Stock-Based Comp increased by 9.7% to $18.60M in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 26.0%, from $14.77M to $18.60M. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Stock-Based Comp shows an upward trend with a 21.2% CAGR.
An increase may signal a strategy to preserve cash or align employee interests with shareholders, but it also results in share dilution.
Stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense where employees and executives are rewarded with equity or stock options...
High-growth technology firms often have higher stock-based compensation as a percentage of revenue compared to mature industrial firms.
stock_based_compensation| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | Q1 '26 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | $7.28M | $7.31M | $7.35M | $7.47M | $14.09M | $12.15M | $11.50M | $11.28M | $12.06M | $14.85M | $11.66M | $10.55M | $12.10M | $118.93M | $16.77M | $14.77M | $13.77M | $15.29M | $16.96M | $18.60M |
| QoQ Change | — | +0.4% | +0.5% | +1.7% | +88.6% | -13.8% | -5.4% | -1.9% | +6.9% | +23.1% | -21.5% | -9.5% | +14.7% | +883.0% | -85.9% | -11.9% | -6.8% | +11.1% | +10.9% | +9.7% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +93.6% | +66.3% | +56.5% | +51.0% | -14.4% | +22.2% | +1.4% | -6.4% | +0.3% | +701.1% | +43.9% | +40.0% | +13.8% | -87.1% | +1.1% | +26.0% |