Sentences with phrase «grants you the option of»

With that in mind, the game grants you the option of using the left stick or the PlayStation Vita's gyroscope.

By placing everything in one app, PokéFit is granting you the option of being lazy, because we all know that you're getting enough activity by trying to catch»em all.

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Another amendment granting states the option of requiring able - bodied adults to work as a requirement for benefits could further curb costs.

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.

The two have just published Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, a book that draws on Sandberg's journey, Grant's research, and interviews with survivors of the worst.

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

Overall, the use of option grants fell last year to just 25 % from 28 % the previous year and 35 % in 2011.

He'll receive about $ 10 million worth of stock options plus a grant of 933,416 performance - based restricted shares.

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.

The researchers also found that when boards did vary the number of options granted to CEOs, they often picked round numbers, such as increasing the number of options by 10 % or doubling it.

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

Because option values can be difficult to understand, boards have tended to issue a certain number of options from year to year, regardless of the grant's dollar value, rather than calculate a desired dollar value and vary the number of options.

If those options were exercised and the stock was then sold at, say, $ 40, it would amount to a bonus of almost $ 330 million — the market price less the strike price, times the number of options granted — paid out to Siebel employees over the next nine years.

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.

Lang and Huddart found that most workers exercise their options quickly and then sell their shares prematurely, which on its face contradicts the notion of granting options as long - term incentives.

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.

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.

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.

An employee's options grant tends to be broken up into percentage blocks, with each block vesting annually over a set number of years.

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.

If analyst expectations are low when stock options are granted, and high when they get cashed out, a CEO stands to make a lot of money, independent of what that variation means in terms of actual performance.

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.

Bellicum expects to grant the underwriters of the offering a 30 - day option to purchase up to an additional 1,050,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions.

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.

He was accused of intentionally changing the grant dates for hundreds of stock option awards without disclosing the move to investors.

Grant co-wrote the book «Option B» about resilience with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the wake of her husband David Goldberg's sudden death in 2015.

A new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard and the University of Texas shows that men tend to believe that they're less likely to be granted flexible work options than women are.

Executive compensation figures are also disclosed in the filing, including CEO Dick Costolo, who had a base salary of $ 200,000 last year, with $ 8.4 million in restricted stock and options with a grant - date value of $ 2.9 million.

Consists of (i) 9,809,637 shares of Class C capital stock to be issued upon exercise of outstanding stock options and vesting of outstanding GSUs that were distributed as a dividend to the issued and outstanding Class A stock options and GSUs in April 2014 in connection with the Stock Split; and (ii) 11,913,110 shares of Class C capital stock to be issued upon conversion of GSUs that were granted under our 2012 Stock Plan during 2014.

A recipient of a stock option or stock appreciation right will not have taxable income upon the grant of the stock option or stock appreciation right.

The Plan permits grants of the following types of incentive awards subject to such terms and conditions as the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee shall determine, consistent with the terms of the Plan: (1) stock options, including stock options intended to qualify as ISOs, (2) other stock - based awards, including in the form of stock appreciation rights, phantom stock, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, deferred share units or share - denominated performance units, and (3) cash awards.

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 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.

Awards granted under the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan may consist of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights (SAR), restricted stock grants, and restricted stock units (RSU).

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 fair value of options with service conditions was determined at the date of grant using the Black - Scholes model.

Conflicts of interest comprise financial interests, activities, and relationships within the past 3 years including but not limited to employment, affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria or payment, speaker's bureaus, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical equipment, or patents planned, pending, or issued.

The 2014 Plan permits the granting by the plan administrator of stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock grants and RSUs, as well as cash bonus awards.

«Option» means an ISO or NSO granted under the Plan entitling the Participant to purchase Shares upon satisfaction of the conditions contained in the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement.

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.

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

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.

Any such shares subject to awards other than stock options and stock appreciation rights granted under either such Plan will become available taking into account the 2:1 premium share counting rule applicable at the time of granting these types of awards.