Apollo Global Management Stock-Based Comp increased by 27.9% to $266.00M in Q4 2025 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 9.5%, from $243.00M to $266.00M. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Stock-Based Comp shows a downward trend with a -9.6% 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.
cf_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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | $53.00M | $57.00M | $1.02B | $168.00M | $125.00M | $117.00M | $130.00M | $140.00M | $140.00M | $142.00M | $604.00M | $189.00M | $153.00M | $136.00M | $243.00M | $149.00M | $166.00M | $208.00M | $266.00M |
| QoQ Change | — | +7.5% | >999% | -83.4% | -25.6% | -6.4% | +11.1% | +7.7% | +0.0% | +1.4% | +325.4% | -68.7% | -19.0% | -11.1% | +78.7% | -38.7% | +11.4% | +25.3% | +27.9% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +135.8% | +105.3% | -87.2% | -16.7% | +12.0% | +21.4% | +364.6% | +35.0% | +9.3% | -4.2% | -59.8% | -21.2% | +8.5% | +52.9% | +9.5% |