Back in early 2012, I wrote a column here about the stock option mega grant.
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Perhaps its handouts will have to evolve into the stock option more familiar in Silicon Valley.
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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If I get assigned, I happily give up my shares and bank a meaningful gain on the overall trade (realized gains on the stock and option leg of the trade).
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.
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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An additional motivation is available through the vesting of stock option grants that require employees to remain employed for a certain period of time before the shares can be issued and sold.
If the stock price climbs, that option liability grows larger as all of the outstanding stock options move more in-the-money and become more valuable.
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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, if you roll over the stock into an IRA, the option is lost forever.
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The lower the implied volatility, the less the stock has to move for the option to make a profit.
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If investors, who usually prefer that comparable companies use the same accounting, ask Pepsi to show stock option expenses for 2002, grants made in the last quarter when Pepsi's stock was riding high would take earnings lower.
The lower the exercise price, the more the option is worth as the stock price rises.
He expanded the bonus pool, created a stock-option plan and goaded the Swiss unions into accepting performance-based incentives even for entry-level workers.
Charles Allmon , editor of Growth Stock Outlook, has been pounding the table about the way companies account for stock option grants to employees.
The fall in employee stock-option plans in America is reducing one pressure for buybacks, but the trend towards shorter-term investment horizons is perhaps increasing pressure from another quarter.
The high-tech explosion over the last 20 years or so has minted stock-option millionaires by the thousands.
Before the report, we will take note of how the stock has been acting, option volume, and decide whether to lock in some gains before the announcement.
Start by addressing each of the terms of stock-option programs--exercise price, vesting, time to exercise, eligibility and grant size.
In October the company launched a stock option loan program for employees who need cash to exercise their stock options.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
More than 15, 600 option contracts changed hands on Adtran by 11:40am, with nearly 3 calls trading on the stock for each single put option in play.
We use the Treasury Stock method to determine the net impact of option dilution.
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With a Chicago put you might get stuck with the stock in question if it dips and the option holder decides to exercise.
Between the story on the potential new regulations, the ongoing censorship rules and some big option put trades blew the stock lower, said a portfolio manager from Morgan Stanley who was not allowed to be quoted on record.
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Nevertheless, the decision was made to offer company stock as an investment option in the define contribution plan and the percentage allocated to it, not surprising, mushroomed to imprudent levels.
Whereas if we were really close to expiration, there is a greater chance of all of the premium being lost on the option that is opposite of the stock price movement as the rate of time decay will increase exponentially.
To evaluate their performance, I assumed a trader could theoretically purchase a two-week option on the stock every single day.
Calls on NWSA are far more active than puts, with investors exchanging more than 3.5 calls on the stock for each single put option.
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