If the company meets yearly targets, employees are reviewed and are
granted options for both their team and their individual performance.
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A traffic citation lawyer can guide you through every step of the process of fighting traffic tickets in MT.. For instance, if you are
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Forest City had previously
granted an option for the purchase of its tenancy - in - common interest in Tucson Mall for $ 121.5 million, its 67.5 % share.
Not exact matches
It's so commonplace that most people seem to take
for granted that it's the best
option for them.
Another amendment
granting states the
option of requiring able - bodied adults to work as a requirement
for benefits could further curb costs.
«We have dramatically increased access to school
options for Newark families, provided
grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.
In 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in
grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected
for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an
option to renew that
grant for another four years.
Reducing the stock
options granted to Larry Ellison represents a major victory
for Oracle shareholders.
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.
However, there are other, less - popular
options for funding including self - funding, sweat equity, government
grants, and more that do work best
for certain situations.
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.
Repricing undermines the primary reason
for granting options: to reward superior performance.
The New Orleans - based startup launched in August of 2012 as a way to cater late night meals to his friends in New Orleans, a city which doesn't have the same late night dining
options that his hometown of New York City takes
for granted.
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.
To qualify
for that sweet tax deal, they can't dispose of the stock within two years after the time the
option was
granted — and they also can't sell stock within one year of the time they exercise the
option.
Corey Rosen, executive director at the National Center
for Employee Ownership, in Oakland, Calif., suggests reminding employees that a stock -
option grant rarely replaces more traditional benefits such as a pension plan and therefore should be viewed as a bonus — one that in some cases may never be worth a dime.
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.
He was accused of intentionally changing the
grant dates
for hundreds of stock
option awards without disclosing the move to investors.
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.
Cenovus has
granted the underwriters an over-allotment
option to purchase up to an additional 10.125 million common shares at the offering price
for up to 30 days after closing.
For 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services» (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted conditional approval to 18 states to establish state - based Small Business Health Options Programs, or SHOPs, and to 17 states to operate health insurance exchanges for individua
For 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services» (HHS) Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted conditional approval to 18 states to establish state - based Small Business Health Options Programs, or SHOPs, and to 17 states to operate health insurance exchanges for individua
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
granted conditional approval to 18 states to establish state - based Small Business Health
Options Programs, or SHOPs, and to 17 states to operate health insurance exchanges
for individua
for individuals.
Our equity incentive plan will allow
for the
grant of other forms of equity incentives in addition to stock
options, such as
grants of restricted stock, restricted stock units and stock appreciation rights.
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.
Shares that are exchanged by a participant or withheld by Apple to pay the exercise price of an
option or stock appreciation right
granted under the 2014 Plan, as well as any shares exchanged or withheld to satisfy the tax withholding obligations related to any
option or stock appreciation right, will not be available
for subsequent awards under the 2014 Plan.
This number is calculated using the share counting rules described in Sections 5 (a) and 5 (b) of the 2014 Plan and includes the number of shares available
for new award
grants under the 2014 Plan out of the 385 million shares authorized by shareholders upon adoption of the 2014 Plan; the number of shares available
for new award
grants under the 2003 Employee Stock Plan (the «2003 Plan») on the date that shareholders approved the 2014 Plan; the number of shares subject to outstanding stock
options under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015; and two times the number of shares subject to outstanding RSUs under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015 (all adjusted
for the 7 -
for - 1 stock split).
The Plan seeks to achieve this purpose by providing
for discretionary long - term incentive Awards in the form of
Options (which may be Incentive Stock
Options or Nonstatutory Stock
Options), Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock
Grants, Restricted Stock Units and Cash Bonus Awards.
Shares issued with respect to awards
granted under the 2014 Plan other than stock
options or stock appreciation rights are counted against the 2014 Plan's aggregate share limit as two shares
for every one share actually issued in connection with the award.
Shares issued in respect of awards other than stock
options and stock appreciation rights
granted under the 2014 Plan and the Director Plan count against the shares available
for grant under the applicable plan as two shares
for every share
granted.
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
This
option grant was primarily intended to provide Mr. Kovacevich with an appropriate long - term incentive to continue to be available
for consultation with management and to represent Wells Fargo following his retirement.
Any Shares subject to Awards
granted under the Plan other than
Options or Stock Appreciation Rights shall be counted against the numerical limits of this Section 3 as two and fifteen - one hundredths (2.15) Shares
for every one (1) Share subject thereto and shall be counted as two and fifteen - one hundredths (2.15) Shares
for every one (1) Share returned to or deemed not issued from the Plan pursuant to this Section 3.
From January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010, the Registrant
granted to its employees, consultants and other service providers
options to purchase an aggregate of 12,566,833 shares of common stock under the Registrant's Amended and Restated 2003 Stock Incentive Plan, or the 2003 Plan, at exercise prices ranging from $ 1.50 to $ 14.46 per share, which includes
options to purchase shares of common stock that were repriced on a one -
for - one basis to $ 2.32 per share in February 2009.
Given our greater emphasis on providing
option grants as the key component of our executive compensation, our board of directors did not adjust the target bonus amounts
for our executive officers in 2010 from prior years.
From January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010, the Registrant
granted to certain executive officers, directors and other investors
options and rights to purchase an aggregate of 8,196,662 shares of common stock under the 2003 Plan at exercise prices ranging from $ 2.00 to $ 6.20 per share, which includes
options to purchase shares of common stock that were repriced on a one -
for - one basis to $ 2.32 per share in February 2009.
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.
Our 2015 Plan will provide
for the
grant of incentive stock
options, within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, to our employees and any parent and subsidiary corporations» employees, and
for the
grant of nonstatutory stock
options, restricted stock, restricted stock units (RSUs), stock appreciation rights, performance units, and performance shares to our employees, directors, and consultants and our parent and subsidiary corporations» employees and consultants.
In August 2012, to create incentives
for continued long - term success from the then - recently launched Model S program as well as from Tesla's then - planned Model X and Model 3 programs, and to further align executive compensation with increases in stockholder value, the Board
granted to Mr. Musk a stock
option award to purchase 5,274,901 shares of Tesla's common stock (the «2012 CEO Performance Award»), representing 5 % of Tesla's total issued and outstanding shares at the time of
grant.
These new rules are effective starting in 2018
for us, except that certain equity awards (such as stock
options) that we
granted on or before November 2, 2017, might still be able qualify as performance - based compensation.
Each automatic triennial stock
option grant and each stock
option grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month
for three years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity
for which such
grant was made (except that if a director who was
granted such an
option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date
for that calendar year, vesting will accelerate with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).
for serving as the lead independent director, (i) on the later of June 12, 2012 or shortly following appointment as the lead independent director, and (ii) every three years thereafter, an automatic
grant of a stock
option to purchase 24,000 shares of our common stock;
For purposes of the table in «Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table» below, we are required to report pursuant to applicable SEC rules any stock
option grants to Mr. Musk at values determined as of their respective
grant dates and which are driven by certain assumptions prescribed by Financial Accounting Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718, «Compensation — Stock Compensation» («ASC Topic 718»).
forfeited to or repurchased due to failure to vest, the unpurchased shares (or
for awards other than stock
options or stock appreciation rights, the forfeited or repurchased shares) will become available
for future
grant or sale under the 2015 Plan.
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.
On July 9, 2015, Mr. Johnson was
granted an
option to purchase 38,000 shares of our common stock, which he early exercised
for restricted shares of our common stock that were subject to the same vesting schedule as the
option.
A limited number of classes of common shares are being used
for equity issuances and stock
option grants.
Usually one voting common share class but sometimes a non-voting common share class may be established
for stock
option grants in addition to voting share class.
repurchased by us due to failure to vest, the unissued shares (or
for awards other than stock
options or stock appreciation rights, the forfeited or repurchased shares) will become available
for future
grant or sale under the 2015 Plan.