Financial Times ranking puts Rolls-Royce chief executive top among FTSE 100 leaders
A new ranking of FTSE 100 chief executives is opening a broader debate over how corporate leadership should be judged beyond share price gains alone. The tool combines nine measures, including shareholder returns, analyst ratings, pay, workforce characteristics and sentiment in Financial Times coverage, while allowing readers to change the weightings themselves.
Highlights
- Financial Times' new CEO Performance Ranking places Rolls-Royce chief executive Tufan Erginbilgiç first among FTSE 100 leaders under its default model.
- The ranking uses nine distinct measures, including market performance, corporate execution, and leadership, and allows stakeholders to adjust variable weightings.
- FTSE 100 chief executives have outperformed the broader market by about five percentage points annually over their tenure, with AI, power infrastructure, and commodities companies excelling in the past 12 months.
Ranking model and default results
As reported by the Financial Times, its new CEO Performance Ranking assesses the leaders of Britain’s largest listed companies across market performance, corporate execution and leadership factors rather than relying on a single metric. Under the default weighting system, Rolls-Royce chief executive Tufan Erginbilgiç ranks first among FTSE 100 bosses.The model uses nine measures and is designed as an interactive tool, letting readers shift the importance of variables such as stock market performance, leadership and reputation. The exercise reflects the view that different stakeholders, from employees to politicians to investors, often use different standards when judging what makes a strong chief executive.
Across the group, chief executives have on average outperformed the wider market during their tenures by about five percentage points a year. Performance over the past 12 months is more varied, with companies tied to themes such as artificial intelligence, power infrastructure and commodities delivering some of the strongest returns.
IQE’s earnings recovery tied to AI-infrastructure demand was the focus of our earlier coverage, highlighting how orders from data centre and defence customers helped the Wales-based chip components maker return to a half-year core profit. We also noted IQE’s plan to move from AIM to London’s Main Market by H1 2027, framing the shift as part of a broader strategic push alongside improving guidance and momentum.
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