CEO annual compensation 2026
Company: Applied Digital
The claim, verbatim
CEO Wes Cummins received compensation of $189,217,520 in 2026
Source (primary)
Applied Digital Corp. ($APLD) CEO 2026 Pay Revealed - quiverquant.com (-, news_article)
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Quote: “We estimate that the CEO of Applied Digital Corp. ($APLD), Wes Cummins, received a compensation of $189,217,520 in 2026.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 29, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The source is an automated Quiver estimate, not a reported figure, and it flags possible parsing errors. Its own numbers are internally inconsistent, so the claim's flat statement that Cummins received this amount goes beyond what the document establishes.
Confirmed in the source:
- Wes Cummins is the CEO of Applied Digital Corp.
- Quiver Quantitative's automated system estimated Wes Cummins's 2026 compensation at $189,217,520, based on a DEF 14A proxy filing dated September 25, 2026
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- Wes Cummins actually received $189,217,520 in compensation in 2026; the source gives only an automated estimate, warns that parsing errors may occur, and its stated 85.36% increase does not match its own figures (a rise from $27,708,092 to $189,217,520 is about 583%)
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Applied+Digital+Corp.+%28%24APLD%29+CEO+2026+Pay+Revealed) in full (6,545 characters, retrieved September 27, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Applied Digital Corp. ($APLD) CEO 2026 Pay Revealed - quiverquant.com
Quote: “We estimate that the CEO of Applied Digital Corp. ($APLD), Wes Cummins, received a compensation of $189,217,520 in 2026.”