Sentence examples for exercise of options from inspiring English sources

The net effect: It took in $365 million from the exercise of options.

The court-ordered exercise of options could harm an executive in a couple of ways, says James M. Crawford Jr., a benefits attorney in Davis, Calif.

Reckitt Benckiser, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods group, eased 7p to £12.73 after chief executive Bart Becht sold 625,000 shares at £12.80 following the exercise of options.

Microsoft and Salomon Smith Barney, which is now part of Citigroup, maintain that there was no conflict of interest because their contract extended only to the exercise of options and employees were free to approach any firm for financial advice.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether employee stock option grants were backdated or granted ahead of favorable news to give the recipients a better chance of profiting from the exercise of options.

It allowed executives to accelerate their exercise of options as soon as shareholders approved its merger with WorldCom, even though many thought -- correctly -- that the merger would be blocked on antitrust grounds.

True, a savvy investor poking around Securities and Exchange Commission filings can usually figure out what options have been granted, and companies are required to report earnings adjusted for potential dilution from the exercising of options.

Mr. Kay predicted that the slowdown in the exercising of options would work to curb the issuing of new ones this year and next, although he anticipates a slow increase over the long term.

My experience with a big dominant company like that is that it buys back a lot of its own stock in the market to compensate against employees' exercising of options.

In combined options, the exercise of one option guides to the gain of another option.

Leonard's plan authorizes his stockbroker to exercise some his employee stock options and subsequently sell the shares acquired from the exercise of the options.