Uniphase, the networking-gear firm in San Jose, Calif., limits the share of option awards going to top executives to 5%.
With covered calls you buy, say, General Motors at $60, then sell a January 2004 $60 call against your position, pocketing the $9.30 a share of option premium.
Given her time on the HealthSouth board, she has accumulated her share of stock options.
There are two parts, Future World, and World Showcase, and each one has it's fair share of dining options.
Many of them were enticed to the job with the carrot of shares or share options.
Indeed, of the billions of shares worth of options issued after the crisis, only about 11 million have thus far been exercised, according to data compiled by InsiderScore, a consulting firm that compiles regulatory filings on insider stock sales.
Employees often receive a significant amount of compensation in that most Western of forms: shares or share options.
Ideally, all granting, exercise, buying and selling of share options, and of shares themselves, should be made public in advance.
Yahoo is also paying him a $500,000 signing bonus, 400,000 shares of stock options and 150,000 shares of restricted stock.
