Incentive Stock Options and Executive Compensation
If you have employee stock options, you’ve probably spent time considering the absolute best time to exercise those options -- and from there, whether you should sell or hold your shares. Answering the question of “when” -- when to exercise, and when to sell -- is wrapped in complexity. With so …
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Ready to exercise your incentive stock options (ISOs)? Then you have many strategies to consider for how and when to take the next steps. Potential plans to implement include exercising well before the ISOs are set to expire, exercising as expiration nears, or exercising on a rolling basis (so …
[Read more...] about How and Why to Exercise Your ISOs Early in the Calendar Year
No one likes to see a stock they own go down in value. When we buy stock, we hope the price rises so we can earn a profit on our purchase. It’s bad enough, then, when our share prices fall instead. But what’s potentially even worse? Seeing those falling stock prices -- and seeing the value of our …
[Read more...] about 6 Reasons to Exercise Your Incentive Stock Options Even When the Price Is Down
If you try and look up information to learn more about your incentive stock options, most of what you’ll find addresses what happens when you exercise your options -- but doesn’t go much farther than that. You may already know that when you exercise your incentive stock options, or ISOs, the …
[Read more...] about 4 Taxes to Plan for When You Sell Your Incentive Stock Options
Incentive stock options are a form of employee compensation that allow you to participate in the appreciating value of a company stock price. Much like their non-qualified stock option cousins, incentive stock options, or ISOs, allow for the purchase of a stock at a predetermined share price. If …
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