PELOTON INTERACTIVE INC
For the period ended Dec 3, 2024. Filed Oct 22, 2024.
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Dec 3, 2024 · Filed Oct 22, 2024
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PROXY SUMMARY
PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC. PROXY SUMMARY
| MEETING INFORMATION Your vote is important. Please submit your proxy as soon as possible (see “Voting Instructions; Voting ofProxies” on page 9 for voting instructions). | |||
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| RECORD DATE | MEETING DATE | MEETING TIME | VIRTUAL MEETING ONLY |
| October 11, 2024 | Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) | www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PTON2024 using your 16-digit control number included on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or on your proxy card |
VOTING METHODS
You may vote in advance of the virtual meeting using one of these voting methods:
| VIA THE INTERNET www.proxyvote.com | CALL TOLL FREE Follow instructions shown on proxy card | MAIL SIGNED PROXY CARD If you received paper materials, mail to: Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, New York 11717 |
VOTING AGENDA / VOTING MATTERS
| PROPOSAL · BOARD RECOMMENDATION · PAGE REFERENCE | |||
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| PROPOSAL 1 | The election of the Class II director named in this Proxy Statement | For | 26 |
| PROPOSAL 2 | The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 | For | 35 |
| PROPOSAL 3 | The approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this Proxy Statement | For | 44 |
WHO WE ARE
Peloton is a leading global fitness company with a highly engaged community of over 6.4 million Members as of June 30, 2024 across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria. A category innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton’sfirst-of-its-kind subscription platform seamlessly combines innovative hardware, distinctive software, and exclusive content. Its world-renowned Instructors coach and motivate Members to be the best version of themselves anytime, anywhere. We provide Members with expert instruction and world class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences for anyone, anywhere, and at any stage in their fitness journey. At home, outdoors, traveling, or at the gym, we offer an immersive and personalized experience. With tens-of-thousands of classes available across many fitness modalities, Members can access Peloton content via our hardware or via the Peloton App, on their phone, tablet, or TV, allowing them to workout when, where, and how they want. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton continues to scale across the markets in which it operates.
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BOARD DIRECTORS AND NOMINEE
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GOVERNANCE AND BOARD HIGHLIGHTS
We are committed to good corporate governance, which strengthens the accountability of our board of directors (the “Board”) and promotes the long-term interests of our stockholders. The list below highlights our independent board oversight and leadership practices, as discussed further in this Proxy Statement.
INDEPENDENT BOARD AND LEADERSHIP PRACTICES • Majority of directors are independent (4 out of 6 current directors) • Independent Chairperson of the Board with well-defined rights and responsibilities • All Board committees are composed solely of independent directors • The Board is focused on enhancing diversity and refreshment, with one third of our current directors having joined since 2022 • Comprehensive risk oversight practices, including related to cybersecurity, data privacy, safety, legal and regulatory matters, compensation, and other critical evolving areas • Our nominating, governance, and corporate responsibility committee oversees our programs relating to corporate responsibility and sustainability, including environmental, social, and corporate governance (“ESG”) matters and related risks • Independent directors hold regular executive sessions • Directors maintain open communication and strong working relationships among themselves and have regular access to management • Directors conduct a robust annual self-assessment process for the Board, Board committees, and individual directors • The Board is subject to a related party transactions policy for any direct or indirect involvement of a director in the Company’s business activities
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE HIGHLIGHTS
We are proud to be a company that leads with purpose—empowering movement and inspiring connection for our millions of Members around the world. We continue to take action on the principles that matter to us and remain committed to improving access to physical fitness and mental well-being through our products, content, and community experiences, supporting our team members’ well-being and development, and accelerating efforts to reduce our environmental impacts.
In our 2024 ESG Report, we share updates on key ESG topics for our business, including but not limited to carbon emissions data, progress against our environmental sustainability targets, ongoing efforts to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion across our business and Member community, and practices we employ to ensure we’re operating with integrity.
For additional information on our ESG practices, please see page 22 below. Our 2024 ESG Report will be available on our investor website athttps://investor.onepeloton.com/esg.
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COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY AND HIGHLIGHTS
We strive to design our executive compensation program to balance the goals of attracting, motivating, rewarding, and retaining our executive officers, including our named executive officers, with the goal of promoting the interests of our stockholders. Our executive compensation policies and practices are designed to ensure that our compensation program is consistent with our short-term and long-term goals and include:
| • | an independent compensation committee; |
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| • | an independent compensation consultant that provides analysis and advice to our compensation committee; |
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| • | annual executive compensation review; |
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| • | total direct compensation that is comprised mostly of at-risk compensation; |
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| • | multi-year vesting requirements; |
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| • | a pay-for-performance philosophy that includes the use of performance stock units (“PSUs”) beginning in our fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (“Fiscal 2025”); |
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| • | maintaining a compensation recovery (clawback) policy; |
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| • | no annual cash bonus program; and |
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| • | “double-trigger” change in control arrangements. |
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We structured the annual compensation of our executive officers for our fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 (“Fiscal 2024”), using two principal elements: base salary and long-term incentive compensation opportunities in the form of equity awards.
| FISCAL 2024 COMPENSATIONELEMENT | DESCRIPTION | ELEMENT OBJECTIVES |
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| BASE SALARY | Fixed cash compensation based on executive officer’s role, responsibilities, competitive market positioning, and individual performance | • Attract and retain key executive talent • Drive top-tier performance through individual contributions |
| LONG-TERM INCENTIVE COMPENSATION | Long-term equity awards granted in the form of restricted stock unit awards and, in limited circumstances where elected pursuant to our Equity Choice Program, time-based options to acquire shares of our Class A common stock | • Attract and retain key executive talent • Drive top-tier performance through long-term individual contributions and focus on sustained success aligned with stockholder interests |
Our primary goals are to align the interests of executive officers and stockholders and to link pay to performance. To that end, a substantial portion of our named executive officer target total direct compensation awarded in Fiscal 2024 was contingent (rather than fixed), with the ultimate value of the award subject to variability commensurate with our actual performance. We believe the use of equity awards strongly links the interests of our executive officers to the interests of our stockholders.
FISCAL YEAR 2025 COMPENSATION
PSU AWARDS BEGINNING IN FISCAL 2025
While Fiscal 2024 long-term incentive compensation was tied solely to restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards, we have decided to move to a mix of RSU awards and PSU awards in Fiscal 2025. These PSU awards will be contingent on Free Cash Flow, anon-GAAP financial metric aligned with Peloton’s stockholders’ interest and internal financial
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goals. Additionally, we have made the decision to select a new peer benchmark set of companies for Fiscal 2025 that more closely aligns with our current cost structure, market capitalization, and growth profile for compensation purposes.
COMPETITIVE POSITIONING FOR FISCAL 2025
The compensation committee, in consultation with the committee’s independent compensation consultant Compensia, Inc. (“Compensia”), developed a new, go-forward peer group for Fiscal 2025 that consists of relevant software, hardware and content companies that are similar to us in terms of revenue, market capitalization, and industry focus. We believe that the new peer group more closely aligns with our current business practices and growth forecasts and was used to prepare a competitive market analysis of our executive compensation program. An analysis by Compensia of the compensation practices at our new peer group was made available to the compensation committee to inform its decisions in September of 2024 regarding Fiscal 2025 compensation of our executive officers, including our named executive officers, which will be described in our 2025 proxy statement, as applicable. Thego-forward peer group for Fiscal 2025 is distinct from the peer group developed by the compensation committee in 2023 for purposes of making decisions about the Fiscal 2024 compensation of our executive officers, including our named executive officers, as described in this Proxy Statement. For additional detail regarding the peer group for Fiscal 2024, please refer to the “—Competitive Positioning for Fiscal 2024” section of this Proxy Statement, beginning on page 54 below.
In evaluating and updating the companies comprising the compensation peer group for Fiscal 2025, the compensation committee, in collaboration with Compensia, considered the following primary criteria:
| • | companies with a primary focus on hardware and software and companies with a strong consumer orientation and/or subscription model, with a secondary focus on consumer/entertainment companies; |
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| • | companies with similar revenues – within a range of approximately 0.5x to approximately 2.0x of our Fiscal 2024 revenues of approximately $2.7 billion; and |
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| • | companies with similar market capitalizations – within a range of approximately 0.3x to approximately 3.0x our 30-day average market capitalization of approximately $1.7 billion as of September 13, 2024; and companies with a similar cost model as a percent of revenue. |
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After a review of the compensation peer group companies, the compensation committee elected to make the following changes to our compensation peer group for Fiscal 2025 due primarily to changing revenue and market capitalization ranges:
| • | Added: Alarm.com, Angi, Bumble, Corsair Gaming, Duolingo, fubo TV, Garmin, GoPro and Lyft; and |
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| • | Removed: Affirm Holdings, Box, DoorDash, Electronic Arts, GoDaddy, Okta, RingCentral, Splunk, Take-Two Interactive Software, Twilio and Zoom Video Communications. |
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The companies comprising the Fiscal 2025 compensation peer group are as follows:
| ALARM.COM | DUOLINGO | MATCH GROUP |
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| ANGI | FUBO TV | |
| BUMBLE | GARMIN | ROKU |
| CORSAIR GAMING | GO PRO | SONOS |
| DOCUSIGN | IAC | ZILLOW GROUP |
| DROPBOX | LYFT |
Please refer to the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this Proxy Statement, beginning on page 45 below, for a full description of our executive compensation philosophy, policies, and practices.
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PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC. PROXY STATEMENT FOR THE 2024 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC.
October 22, 2024
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