Incentive Stock Options and Executive Compensation
Even if you don’t have plans to leave anytime soon, it’s not unreasonable to consider what happens to your employee stock options when no longer work for your current employer. Whether due to a planned retirement after a long career, a new opportunity at another company, or an intentional …
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If you have employee stock options, you’ve likely spent time considering how and when to turn the value of those options into cash proceeds you can actually use. To turn stock employee stock options into cash, you have to exercise them. When you exercise, you are buying shares of company stock …
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A stock swap can be a great strategy to use if you have employee stock options you’d like to exercise and hold. It allows you to use the fair market value (FMV) of company stock you already own to pay for the exercise cost of newly acquired employee stock option shares. Shares you own that can be …
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If you receive grants of employee stock options, you should understand the concept of leverage and how it can impact the value of your options. You can’t eliminate the issue of leverage altogether, as it is inherent in employee stock options. But knowing how, when, and by how much it impacts the …
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If you done any research or reading on equity compensation and employee stock options, you’ve likely come across terms and phrases like “concentration risk” and “too many eggs in one basket.” You may have also read up on stories that detail how a declining stock price wiped out someone’s …
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