Back in early 2012, I wrote a column here about the stock option mega grant.
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It could be stock you got in an employee stock option or stock ownership program.
Zoi and her husband reportedly owned 120, 000 Serious stock option shares at that time.
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Perhaps its handouts will have to evolve into the stock option more familiar in Silicon Valley.
Since then, at least 40 of the more than 3, 000 registered companies have registered stock option programs.
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It makes monthly stock option grants, lots of them in each grant, as well as annual ones.
There are several types of stock purchase plans that contain these features, such as nonqualified stock option plans.
Finavera is operating within its registered stock option plan, which was approved by shareholders in September of last year.
In October the company launched a stock option loan program for employees who need cash to exercise their stock options.
Rambus was one of dozens of companies investigated by the SEC for allegedly allowing executives to backdate their stock option grants.
In the 1990s, tech companies deducted multi-million dollar W-2s comprised mostly of stock option exercises, still another windfall tax break too.
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For Jobs, he had a big expensive airplane and he was involved in the whole stock option back-dating scandal last decade.
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Stock option gains in Germany when exercised are still taxed as ordinary income, but at least the top rate is coming down.
After his big stock option exercise, Zuckerberg can walk in the footsteps of hi-tech icons such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
He is compensated via stock option grants that vest over time, but has exercised and sold just a small portion of his options.
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Those companies have been lobbying for exemptions from the stock option provision in exchange for a promise to keep their offices in the city.
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Charles Allmon , editor of Growth Stock Outlook, has been pounding the table about the way companies account for stock option grants to employees.
If the bottlers expensed stock option grants, Coca-Cola Enterprises would have lost 11 cents, or 22%, of 2001 earnings, according to Morgan Stanley's Pecoriello.
However, there is another type of stock option, known as an incentive stock option, which is usually only offered to key employees and top-tier management.
Some companies offer some stock option data for their employees online.
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His stock option gains accounted for 78% of that compensation figure.
The proxy statement filed to announce Facebook's June 11 shareholder meeting is the first time that the magnitude of Zuckerberg's stock option gain had been quantified.
The law is far-reaching and will impact virtually all nonqualified deferred compensation plans as well as other not so obvious plans, such as discounted stock option plans.
The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits or stock option gains such as those recognized by Zuckerberg did last year.
But most U.S. companies detail in their annual reports the extent to which a stock option expense plan, such as Coke is enacting, would have affected earnings.
Stock option plans have become mildly controversial in recent years as some top executives have gained massively even as their companies performed at average levels or worse.
Under terms of the Employee Stock Option Plan completed in April, which ceded 25.4% of the company to the pilots, the pilots can't sell shares until they quit.
And the SEC says Dell consistently misrepresented how it has generated consistent growth numbers resulting in illusory stock values that made possible Michael Dell's astronomical stock option gains.
Stock option mega-grants have exacerbated this outcome in some instances.
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