If executives are rewarded for short - term earnings gains or if they're
paid with stock options, then be wary.
Companies should give CEOs share units less often and stop
paying them with stock options to motivate better long - term performance and minimize the role of luck in compensation payouts, a new report argues.
Not exact matches
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.
Yet, Wells Fargo's board only decided to clawback Tolstedt's
pay following widespread outrage that Tolstedt was set to leave the bank
with as much as $ 125 million in
stock and
options intact, which was first reported by Fortune.
Brutal hours, low
pay,
stock option souvenirs, smart people
with good ideas routinely going broke.
With stock awards and
options, equity compensation programs can serve as additional ways to
pay workers beyond wages or salaries.
The basic idea at the time was that
paying senior executives, and especially CEO's, in company
stock or
stock options would align their interests
with those of shareholders.
Unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to the transaction, if substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired by another corporation or in case of a reorganization of the Company involving the acquisition of the Company by another entity, (i)
stock options and
stock appreciation rights become exercisable immediately prior to the transaction; (ii) restrictions
with respect to restricted
stock and RSRs lapse and shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units
pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter.
Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i)
options and
stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions
with respect to restricted
stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units
pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.
(l) Except as otherwise set forth in Schedule 2.7 (l) of the Disclosure Schedule, (i) the Company is not and will not be obligated to
pay separation, severance, termination or similar benefits as a result of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, nor will any such transactions accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount, of any benefit or other compensation due to any individual; and (ii) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not cause the Company to record additional compensation expense on its income statements
with respect to any outstanding
Stock Option or other equity - based award.
You can
pay extra for Zacks» professional analysis of Canadian
stocks to go along
with a robust slate of
options.
For
paid screeners, turn to market analysis companies, who usually have basic screeners beefed up
with premium
options like
stock recommendations, rankings, and other nice features.
Because the restricted shares are accounted for as
options, the Notes are not recorded in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, the shares are excluded in the totals for common
stock outstanding as of April 30, 2012 and 2013 and December 31, 2013, and compensation cost is recognized over the requisite service period
with an offsetting credit to additional
paid - in capital.
If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment
with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation
pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance
with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be
paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be
paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be
paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and
stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.
In connection
with the acquisition of XA Secure, the Company also issued 265,012 shares of restricted
stock, issued 318,966
options to purchase the Company's common
stock and may be required to
pay an additional $ 3.92 million to certain key employee - shareholders of XA Secure.
Uber now is working
with an external firm to ensure
pay equity, and recently extended its
stock option exercise deadline from 30 days to 7 years for departing employees.
In the event of a change of control (as defined in the plan), the compensation committee may, in its discretion, provide for any or all of the following actions: (i) awards may be continued, assumed, or substituted
with new rights, (ii) awards may be purchased for cash equal to the excess (if any) of the highest price per share of common
stock paid in the change in control transaction over the aggregate exercise price of such awards, (iii) outstanding and unexercised
stock options and
stock appreciation rights may be terminated, prior to the change in control (in which case holders of such unvested awards would be given notice and the opportunity to exercise such awards), or (iv) vesting or lapse of restrictions may be accelerated.
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
Options can be favored over shorting due to increased liquidity, especially for
stocks with smaller floats, or due to increased leverage and a capped maximum loss, since the investor can not lose more than the premiums
paid.
As disclosed in the proxy statement filed in advance of its 2006 shareholder meeting, in 2005 the Devon board
paid CEO J. Larry Nichols a $ 1.1 million salary, a $ 2.2 million bonus (based on a non-formulaic assessment of performance), and
stock and
options with an aggregate grant - date value of more than $ 7 million (none of which was tied to performance measures).
I realize there are very few publicly traded companies that act the way Berkshire Hathaway does (in terms its relationship
with Wall Street, executive
pay, corporate governance,
stock options, etc...), but it's still a point worth making.
One of the perks about being CEO of a publicly traded company of the 1990's was that you could
pay yourself
with huge amounts of
stock options, but yet not count those
stock options as an expense on your company's financial statements.
Given his financial experience, Mr. Paulson had to know how deceptive his promise was in placing such emphasis on the government's
stock options, the sweetener that has made so many executives fabulously wealthy: «taxpayers will not only own shares that should be
paid back
with a reasonable return, but also will receive warrants for common shares in participating institutions,» he explained.
With a thousand - dollar iPhone being released next month, low unemployment and a sky - high stock market, it's hard to imagine that a very large group of people have never financially recovered from the great recession of 2008, stuck in a cycle of week - to - week bill paying with few options to rebuild credit scores and return to their families to traditional housing opti
With a thousand - dollar iPhone being released next month, low unemployment and a sky - high
stock market, it's hard to imagine that a very large group of people have never financially recovered from the great recession of 2008, stuck in a cycle of week - to - week bill
paying with few options to rebuild credit scores and return to their families to traditional housing opti
with few
options to rebuild credit scores and return to their families to traditional housing
options.
However, there is a problem
with stock options that is sometimes overlooked, as was demonstrated in one of the above examples of things that can go wrong: When you exercise nonqualified
stock options — the type of
options ordinarily issued to consultants — federal tax law requires you to
pay tax on the difference between the fair market value of the
stock and the price you
paid to exercise the
options.
(
Options, for those unfamiliar
with the term, are a way of
paying someone in
stock — that person has the
option to purchase a certain amount of shares, at a certain price, for a given amount of time.
Consistent
with the severity of the violation, discipline can include verbal or written warning, suspension
with or without
pay, loss or reduction of bonus or
stock options, demotion or, for the most serious offenses or repeated misconduct, employment termination.
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Another
option, though may be not as safe as CDs or money market accounts, is high quality dividend
paying stocks (always understand that investing in the
stock market is riskier than putting money in bank accounts), some
with more than 5 % dividend yield at the end of 2010.
For example, instead of
paying $ 5,000 to buy 100 shares of
stock XYZ,
with options you can
pay $ 200, and have the same upside potential as if you had bought the
stock.
That starts
with buying dividend
paying stocks and then selling call
options against them.
Left
with nowhere to really place money earmarked specifically for income generation, many investors were left
with dividend -
paying stocks as the best
option.
Given tough IRS scrutiny, business owners
with a ROBS plan will likely end up
paying service fees to third - party providers to keep the plans legally compliant and will have to offer employees the
option to buy
stock when the ROBS transaction takes place.
When you open a brokerage account
with E * Trade, the most you'll
pay is for $ 9.99 per
stock or
option trade, which is the standard commission — this has gone down $ 3.00 in the last two years as E * Trade has responded to changes in the financial landscape (e.g. the crisis).
If you know what types of funds you want to invest in, you only
pay the trade fee of $ 5 to $ 10 to buy a
stock or ETF and often have the
option to buy from a list of in - house mutual funds and ETFs
with zero trading fees.
The reason «max loss» is smaller is because the most you can lose is what you
pay for the LEAP call
option, whereas
with stock the most you can lose is what you
paid for the shares.
Options can be favored over shorting due to increased liquidity, especially for
stocks with smaller floats, or due to increased leverage and a capped maximum loss, since the investor can not lose more than the premiums
paid.
Trading
options is different from
stocks with regards to commissions, as you
pay a certain fee for each contract when trading
options, whereas
with stocks, you
pay a set commission.
The answer, as Dell exemplified, is that
stock options were an expense, often
paid for
with real cash dollars that showed up in the company's cash flow statement (and should have showed up on the income statement).
Rather than
pay dividends to long - suffering stockholders, they'll retain the earnings to pump up the
stock price, which helps
with their
options.
Rather than
pay dividends to long - suffering stockholders, they'll retain the earnings in the faint hope it'll pump up the
stock price, which helps
with their
options.
This is definitely a novel concept because now investors can open a free TradeMonster account,
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options trades while still having access to all the tools, charts, and resources of the real money account holder.
are primarily in the form of cash,
with less than 10 %
paid as restricted
stock and
options.
«Any investment offering steady returns is not a bad
option — except for U.S. dividend -
paying stocks,» says Vickie Campbell, a certified financial planner
with Ryan Lamontagne in Ottawa.
With E * TRADE, you
pay a $ 6.95 commission for
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With an Equity Incentive Plan you can specify the type of employees eligible to receive incentive
stock options; the minimum price per share of
stock an employee must
pay if they are granted the right to purchase
stock (even though the employee owns more than the maximum percentage defined in the plan); the timeframe within which
stock options can be granted under the plan after its adoption or approval by shareholders; the total number of shares to be issued to employees; and the conditions and time period for the expiration of
stock options.
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