Cook himself who asked the related requirements of the annual bonus of liquid a few years ago. Apple's stock value rose 31 percent over the past 12 months, which means that their performance to beat 81 percent of the companies in the index 500 largest corporations in the US.
As mentioned by Business Insider, Apple also became the first company that can achieve and maintain the value of USD1 trillion valuation.
If Cook gets a bonus of the total value of the stocks he owns, this will be the fifth time he gets the maximum bonus.
In 2015, Cook said that he would give the whole of his wealth to charity. On Tuesday, he donated almost worth of Apple stock USD5 million for charity.