Aren’t most bonuses tied to stock increases? If so, as a shareholder you would have made $$$ also.
Not necessarily. Usually to some financial goal, but not directly to stock price.
Example: When Jim Hackett took over as CEO of Seagull, an independent gas exploration and production (E&P) company, his incentive was a promise of a bonus conditioned on concluding a sale of the company by a date certain. He did complete a merger (forming Ocean Energy), but whether that satisfied his board's objective, I don't know; it would be up to his compensation committee.