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The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Bill Mann |
Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing.   |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Stock Options: The End of the Affair? For whatever reasons, more and more companies seem to be backing off of their love affair with options. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2009
Tim Hanson |
Let's Stand Up to Scandalous Stock Options Public companies keep finding ways to mistreat their shareholders. |
| 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? |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google: Officially Evil Fresh from announcing market-besting quarterly results, Google is repricing its employee stock options. This is a great deal for employees and a lousy one for shareholders. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Do No Evil, Revisited Google may never live down last year's stock options repricing. |
CFO
January 2009
McCann & Stuart |
No Lifeline for Underwater Options In the two years following the Internet bubble burst, some 400 U.S. public companies offered to buoy underwater employee stock options by exchanging them for something of value, including new options with a lower strike price. Don't expect a repeat performance of that now. |
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
March 31, 2008
Bill Mann |
M.D.C.'s Demented Compensation Proposals M.D.C. Holdings managers are paid for outperformance, and paid for underperformance. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Intel Does Repricing Right Tech giant Intel is planning a repricing scheme. But the chipmaker is taking several steps to avoid a firestorm of public backlash against this plan. |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2008
Rich Duprey |
VMWare's Cloudy Virtual Reality Both Oracle and Microsoft have introduced virtualization software that's cheaper -- and, some might say, better -- than VMWare's. The company's stock has fallen by some 55% this year. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2004
Seth Jayson |
IBM's Options Upgrade Options-based compensation for executives is rife with opportunities to fatten management wallets at the expense of shareholders Big Blue leads the way with a new and improved stock option plan. |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2006
Jane Sasseen |
Master Of The Options Universe Chipmaker Analog Devices appears to have used every trick in the book. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
When Your Stock Options Are Underwater For employees who get paid in part through stock options, stagnant and falling share values mean a big pay cut. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Janelle Brown |
Microsoft's funny money A spunky shareholder resolution demands that the company account for its political campaign contributions... |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bear Companies will have to scale back on exercising new grants or knock down their paychecks. Stock options, that wonderful concept on paper, has been abused badly by compensation committees. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Google Owes You $1.5 Billion Google's options repricing plan, originally estimated to cost $460 million, has created $1.5 billion in wealth for employees who benefited from the plan. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Options Shouldn't Guarantee Success Shareholders continue to lose in the options game. |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Options Run Out at Comverse Greed strikes again. A financial officer at the telecom-software provider pleads guilty for his role in another backdating scandal. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
Google's Riskier Than You Think The company's execs seem to define success in a different way than investors. |
