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| Knowledge@Wharton |
How Employee Stock Options Can Undermine the Value of Ordinary Shares What effect do options have on the number of stock shares a company has in circulation? The answer can make a big difference when a company computes its earnings per share, and when investors calculate the critical price-to-earnings ratio.   |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Are Stock Options In Your Future? Given the recent turmoil surrounding stock options -- including well-publicized abuses of executive stock options, the depressed market, and anticipated new rules on the expensing of options -- has this once-popular form of compensation lost its appeal? |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options) A handful of technology companies are heading in alternative directions when it comes to giving employees incentives to stay and perform well. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
Scott Rosenberg |
When good options turn bad Sure, let's punish stock-option-scamming CEOs and tighten up options accounting. But when options benefit everyday employees, they're worth defending. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 4, 2003 |
Bush's Dividend Tax Cut: Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The final tax-cut bill the president signed into law at the end of May did not eliminate dividend taxes, but reduced the dividend tax to 15%, from a high of 38.6%, for investors in the top tax bracket. Is that enough to provide the benefits advocates had predicted? |
Knowledge@Wharton
April 9, 2003 |
Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What about Investors? A paper written by Wharton accounting professor Mary Ellen Carter and Luann J. Lynch, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business, examines the relationship between repricing underwater stock options and retaining employees. |
Inc.
August 1, 2000
Bo Burlingham |
The Boom in Employee Ownership More than 15% of the private-sector workforce is now covered by one ownership plan or another, and that figure is growing. It may get an additional boost from a new study on the effects of stock options... |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Paul Elliott |
An Investor's Worst Enemy As an investor, few things assure you'll go hungry like a board of directors cutting the pie into more and more pieces and handing them out. Excessive share dilution is precisely that. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
One Way to Settle the Controversy over Stock Options: Eliminate Them Some Wharton professors question this approach, warning that abandoning stock options altogether could ultimately hurt a company's performance. They say that despite recent allegations of abuse, stock options remain a valuable way to get managers to perform at their peak level. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Investing is generally fraught with future promise. Dividends can be an island of stability in a turbulent market, helping investors achieve long-term outsized gains. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Louis Lavelle |
Stock Options: The Fuzzy New Math In solving one problem by forcing companies to recognize that options have a cost, we've created something equally complex: Shareholders will have no way of knowing whether their companies are accurately estimating expenses or engaging in wishful thinking to burnish the bottom line. |
Knowledge@Wharton
Siegel, Metrick & Gompers |
A Simple Solution to Stock Market Woes: Kill the Corporate Dividend Tax The authors argue that a simple solution to restoring investor confidence while boosting economic growth would be to eliminate one of the most detrimental taxes in the U.S. economy -- the corporate dividend tax. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Better Carrots? Big changes are under way in long-term incentive compensation, a new survey finds. But they may not be big enough. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2004
Jeff Hwang |
A Costly Tech Buyback Selling options low and buying back shares high destroy Texas Instruments' value. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Opting for Stock Options Multinationals are still choosing to offer options. They just need to be tailored to local tastes... |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Scott Bernard Nelson |
Good Funds Gone Bad Should you dump shares of fund companies implicated in scandals? |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Hedging Their Risk: Creating a Market for Managerial Stock Options Given the recent volatility in the stock market and the amount of equity top managers often hold, it's not surprising that executives are taking steps to minimize their risk, say Wharton researchers... |
Fast Company
February 2003
Keith H. Hammonds |
Are We Out of Options? They were the currency of the American dream. Now they are worthless paper -- a symbol of CEO greed. What went wrong with stock options? Where do companies go from here? Our only option: Visit one of the world's leading authorities on employee ownership. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Julie Monahan |
No Options The big guys may be letting stock options go, but should you? |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
Robert Barker |
Why Microsoft's Cash Makes It A Bargain Is it safe to buy Microsoft yet? It's certainly an odd thing to ask about a stock that's up 34,186% since its 1986 debut. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The Signal of Strong Management A company's dividend policy will tell you whether your investment dollars are in good hands. |
Knowledge@Wharton
December 18, 2002 |
Analyzing Likely Tax Cuts in 2003: Can Bush Kickstart the Economy? When Congress returns from the holiday break, President Bush is expected to unveil his plan for using tax cuts to stimulate the economy. But would the proposals under discussion provide the kind of short-term economic boost the White House says the country needs? |
BusinessWeek
December 22, 2003
Steve Hamm |
Chambers: Stock Options Inspire Innovation John T. Chambers, chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., is an outspoken critic of upcoming accounting rules requiring companies to expense stock options. In an interview, Chambers explains his position: |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2004
Bill Mann |
The Best Stock Options Model Are there perfect ways to value stock options? No. But anything is better than this. What's the sign that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is thinking about requiring stock options to be expensed? Lots of trips to Washington by Silicon Valley executives, and pre-emptive bills in Congress. Certainly, someone up there recognizes that accounting is best left to accountants. |
CFO
November 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
The Price They're Paid Even without stock options, top finance chiefs are changing in hefty pay packages. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Applied Materials' Buyback The stock repurchase program sounds impressive, but has yet to add shareholder value. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Abundant Options in Alternative Compensation While nearly every investor has heard of stock options, few are likely aware of their close cousins, restricted shares and stock appreciation rights. Even if investors have heard of them, fewer still probably understand how they work. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
Hof & Kerstetter |
Earth To Silicon Valley: You've Lost This Battle If anyone thought tech executives might finally give up their long fight against counting employee stock options as an expense, a rally on June 24 quashed that notion. Here's why tech should end its fight against options expensing. |
Inc.
April 2005
Michael Sisk |
Taking Stock Stock options are about to get pricier, thanks to a new regulation passed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Fortunately, options are not the only way to dole out equity. Here are four other strategies for small businesses to consider. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration? |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
A New Twist on Options Expensing The SEC approves a new method for companies to use. Since this method may result in companies being able to reduce the expense charges they're forced to report, it's certain to be both controversial and popular within corporate America. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
The CEOs' Gravy Train May Be Drying Up Finally, boards are reining in executive pay and tying it more to performance. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Show Me the Money, Steve! It's time for Apple to pay a dividend. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006
Mark Gimein |
The Bottom Line On Options Who are the winners in the battle over expensing? Just look in the corner office. The outsize pay packages that options mania brought about still remain. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2005
Richard Gibbons |
Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Joan Szabo |
For a Limited Time Want to take advantage of the cut in dividend taxes? You'll need to strike while the iron's hot. |
CFO
May 1, 2004
Craig Schneider |
Forget Black-Scholes? Why the traditional option-pricing model may not be the best way to value employee stock option grants. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Post-Enron Pension Reform Aims to Educate -- and Protect -- Employees The central issue: How to treat the use of the company stock in the employees' retirement plans... |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2010
Jeremy Phillips |
The One Thing You Must Know About Intel Learn the most important metrics when evaluating a CEO. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2004
Bill Mann |
Yes, Options Really Are an Expense The Financial Accounting Standards Board stares down the tech lobby and mandates that employee stock options must be expensed. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2010
Scott Schutte |
They've Got Options Now is an ideal time for advisors to incorporate comprehensive stock option planning into their services -- especially since many employees who have access to employer stock option plans have little to no understanding of how stock options work. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Daze Linking pay to performance is harder than it looks. Companies that consider linking equity awards to performance should prepare to dig in for deeper computations of the compensation's fair value. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Jeff Hwang |
On Cree's Buyback Cree, the semiconductor materials maker, has recently bought back around 4 million shares and with its most recent expansion authorizes the repurchase of 5.1 million additional shares. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2001
Fick & Mitsoff |
Capital Balancing Act: Preferred vs. Common Stock Because every REIT has unique characteristics and investment opportunities, there is no formula that applies in every situation... |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
The Short Story Should you try to profit when stocks fall? |
