Sentences with phrase «companies grant options»

The burn rate is the level at which companies grant options and restricted stock divided by shares outstanding.

Not exact matches

It has long been understood that if a company's stock rockets ahead, a rich grant of options can lead to big payday.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Or might they have second thoughts, knowing that Siebel's board has granted the company's management the authority to increase the number of options granted to 20 million?

In other words, Dorsey's stake in the company was already publicly disclosed, so the amount of his options grant was already factored into the stock purchase decision of existing shareholders who had already bought the stock.

And yet, buried in a footnote in Siebel's latest 10 - K filing is the fact that the company has granted options to employees to buy 9.8 million shares at an average purchase price of $ 6.46.

Meanwhile, in those companies, the median value of options granted equals roughly 37 % of an engineer's — and 265 % of a CEO's — base salary, according to Mark Edwards, president of iQuantic, a compensation consulting firm based in San Francisco.

It is now quite common, should a stock collapse, for companies to lower the purchase price on options already granted to employees, in order to stem a mass exodus of talent.

Granting options enables managers to pay employees with an IOU rather than cash — with the prospect that the stock market, not the company, will one day pay up.

Scott Spector, a Silicon Valley compensation expert with law firm Fenwick & West, says the typical small technology company he advises may well grant options equal to 24 % or more of total shares outstanding, up from 15 % just three years ago.

Companies granting large numbers of options thus show a fatter bottom line than they would if those options had been listed as an expense.

At BroadBand Technologies, Bhatia didn't want hotshot techies — many of whom have come to expect stock options — to take the company's options for granted.

At the end of each of the next 10 fiscal years, if certain benchmarks are met by the agency (financial growth, profitability and overall company health), Linda and I will transfer up to 10 percent of our equity by granting stock options to all employees based on the same progressive formula we use to distribute employee cash bonuses.

Stock options allow employees to purchase shares in their company at a price fixed when the optionis granted (the grant price) for a defined number of years into the future.

If the company meets yearly targets, employees are reviewed and are granted options for both their team and their individual performance.

Pursuant to the offering, Centene granted the underwriters an option to purchase from the Company up to an additional $ 260 million in shares of common stock.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated two large backdated option grants: one for 4.8 million shares to the company's executive team and another for 7.5 million shares to Jobs, who was CEO at the time.

The company behind Harvey's and Swiss Chalet has also granted the underwriters an over-allotment option for an additional 1.3 million subordinate voting shares.

Such compensation might typically include salary, bonuses, benefits (such as use of a company car), and grants of stock or stock options.

Total compensation includes information disclosed in company proxy statements, including salary, bonus, stock and options valued at grant date, any deferred compensation, as well as other benefits and perks.

It is much more likely that he will have made a much more modest salary (say, $ 500,000) and to have been granted stock in the company (or stock options) the value of which makes up the rest of his income for the year.

Awards may be granted under the Plan in substitution for or in connection with an assumption of employee, director and / or consultant stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or other stock - based awards granted by other entities to persons who are or who will become Employees or Consultants in respect of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries in connection with a

The HRC, as part of its regular option grants for 2008, granted an option to Richard M. Kovacevich, who is retiring as Chairman of the Company at the end of 2008.

For its June 2007 meeting, the HRC asked F.W. Cook's designated representative, George B. Paulin, to report on, and respond to HRC members» questions regarding a range of executive compensation matters, including the Company's compensation program and current trends, a comparison of Company and Peer Group compensation amounts and structures, including stock option and restricted stock grant practices, recent stockholder initiatives on compensation, compensation committee procedures, the role of consultants, and regulatory activity.

The Compensation Committee believes that options to purchase shares of our common stock, with an exercise price equal to the market price of our common stock on the date of grant, are inherently performance - based and are a very effective tool to motivate our executives to build stockholder value and reinforce our position as a growth company.

A participant who is granted an incentive stock option also will not recognize income and the Company will not be allowed a deduction at the time the option is granted.

The Company has granted the underwriters a 45 - day option to purchase up to an additional 3,375,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any, in the offering.

As discussed in the CD&A under «Compensation Components» and «Achieving Compensation Objectives — Pay for Performance,» we have provided incentive compensation in the form of an annual cash incentive award based on Company, business line and individual qualitative performance results for each fiscal year, and long - term incentive compensation generally in the form of stock option grants and, in certain circumstances, RSRs to reward our SEOs for contribution to growth in long - term stockholder value.

The options held by Mr. Duke and Mr. McMillon were granted to them in prior years as part of their compensation for service as Associates and not as compensation for serving as a director of our company.

At the time of his hire in 2003, Mr. Drexler invested $ 10 million of his own funds to purchase a substantial equity interest in the Company and he received large equity grants in the form of stock options, premium - priced options and restricted stock, subject to four and five year vesting conditions.

The Company granted non-employees options to purchase shares of common stock totaling 271,668 and 100,000 for the years ended April 30, 2012 and 2013, 100,000 and 23,500 for the eight months ended December 31, 2012 (unaudited) and 2013, and 15,000 and 405,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2014 (unaudited), respectively.

Shkreli was awarded substantial compensation by the Company during the period of his disloyalty including, but not limited to: substantial cash compensation, 1,605,570 shares of Retrophin stock, a grant of 1,080,000 time based options to purchase Retrophin stock (the «December 2013 Option Agreement «-RRB- and a grant of 400,000 options (half time based and half performance based) to purchase shares of Retrophin stock (the «February 2014 Option Agreement»).

It is the intent of the Company that Options and stock appreciation rights granted to Covered Employees and other Incentive Awards designated as Incentive Awards to Covered Employees subject to Section 8 shall constitute qualified «performance - based compensation» within the meaning of Code Section 162 (m) and regulations thereunder, unless otherwise determined by the Committee at the time of allocation of an Incentive Award.

An early - stage company typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Ccompany typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the CompanyCompany.

The Company also granted to the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase up to an additional $ 30 million aggregate principal amount of notes within a 13 - day period beginning on, and including, the initial closing date.

If an Award expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full, is surrendered pursuant to an Exchange Program, or, with respect to Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Units or Performance Shares, is forfeited to or repurchased by the Company due to failure to vest, the unpurchased Shares (or for Awards other than Options or Stock Appreciation Rights the forfeited or repurchased Shares), which were subject thereto will become available for future grant or sale under the Plan (unless the Plan has terminated).

Because there is no public market for our common stock, our board of directors determined the common stock fair value at the stock option grant date by considering several objective and subjective factors, including the price paid by investors for our preferred stock, our actual and forecasted operating and financial performance, market conditions and performance of comparable publicly traded companies, developments and milestones in our company, the rights and preferences of our common and preferred stock, the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, and transactions involving our preferred stock.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oCompany Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

All stock options and stock appreciation rights will have an exercise price equal to at least the fair market value of our common stock on the date the stock option or stock appreciation right is granted, except in certain situations in which we are assuming or replacing options granted by another company that we are acquiring.

Each non-employee director who, as of the date of this offering, is serving on our board of directors and is expected to continue his or her service following this offering will be granted an option to purchase shares of our Class A common stock with a grant date fair value of $ 50,000 (or, if such director is unaffiliated with any significant stockholder of the Company, $ 75,000) on the date the shares subject to this offering are priced.

On the date the shares subject to this offering are priced, each non-employee director who, as of the date of this offering, is serving on our board of directors and is expected to continue his or her service following this offering will be granted (a) an option to purchase shares of our Class A common stock with a grant date fair value of $ 50,000 (or, if such director is unaffiliated with any significant stockholder of the Company, $ 75,000) and (b) to the extent such director is (i) unaffiliated with any significant stockholder of the Company and (ii) the chairman of any committee of our board of directors, an additional option to purchase shares of our Class A common stock with a fair value of $ 10,000 with respect to each such chairmanship.

The Company grants performance and market - based options and restricted stock units to employees and directors.

The following table shows the total number of shares of the Company's common stock that were subject to outstanding restricted stock unit awards granted under the 2003 Plan, that were subject to outstanding stock options granted under the 2003 Plan, and that were then available for new award grants under the 2003 Plan as of September 28, 2013 and as of November 11, 2013.

As of November 11, 2013, a total of 20.873 million shares of the Company's common stock were subject to all outstanding awards granted under the Company's equity compensation plans (including the shares then subject to outstanding awards under the 2003 Plan and the Director Plan, as well as outstanding awards assumed by the Company in connection with acquisitions, but exclusive of shares that employees may purchase under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan), of which 17.265 million shares were then subject to outstanding restricted stock unit awards and 3.608 million shares were then subject to outstanding stock options.

However, for stock market companies, simply creating new shares or issuing stock options by fiat that are given away to employees without the company selling them at full value, existing shareholders would experience an economic dilution in profits (dividends) per share going down because of a larger number of shares and, importantly, in economic value, being given away (shares of the company are literally being simply granted to someone else, namely employees).

In the George W. Bush administration, changes in accounting regulations and Federal policies made granting of broad - based stock options and restricted and other stock grants to employees in high technology and other companies less attractive, which led to a huge drop in employee share ownership among the middle class in those companies and industries.

The stock options, stock grants, and profit - and gain - sharing bonuses that companies pay to executives are counted in official statistics as compensation for work with no asterisk that they are also income to capital.36

The Company has granted the Agents an over-allotment option, exercisable in whole or in part, for a period of 30 days following the closing of the Offering, to purchase up to an additional 4,726,500 Units at $ 3.65 per Unit, 4,726,500 Common Shares at the price of $ 3.62 per Share or 2,363,250 Warrants at the price of $ 0.06 per Warrant, or any combination thereof.

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K92 Mining Inc. («K92» or «the Company»)(TSXV: KNT; OTCQB: KNTNF) announces the grant of 2,230,000 stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company, pursuant to -LSB-...]