Re: options for employees

2002-07-14 Thread Joel Simon Grus
OK, so after everything I wrote yesterday, I saw this article this morning: http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=RXNPH5PSAYMYKCRBAE0CFFAKEEATGIWD?type=businessnewsStoryID=1198165 Coca-Cola said it would expense all future stock option grants based on the fair value at the date

Re: options for employees

2002-07-13 Thread Joel Simon Grus
1a) In the market, the owner of a stock can write a call option on stock he owns, meaning a buyer pays the stock owner a market price for the option. The option buyer is paying for the rights to the future gains from the stocks, the stock owner giving up rights to the gains. Well, you can

options for employees

2002-07-12 Thread Fred Foldvary
Can someone explain exactly how employee stock options operate? 1a) In the market, the owner of a stock can write a call option on stock he owns, meaning a buyer pays the stock owner a market price for the option. The option buyer is paying for the rights to the future gains from the stocks, the