stock options

Cultural  

1. The right to purchase a company's shares at a future date at an agreed price. Companies often give stock options to their executives as an incentive to improve the company's performance and boost its share price. If the share price has risen above the agreed price of the option by the time the option is exercised, the executive stands to make a considerable profit.

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Example Sentences

The plan provided 12 tranches of stock options, each of which would vest only if Tesla’s market valuation, earnings and revenue hit certain milestones.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday overruled External link the Delaware Chancery Court’s 2024 decision to void Musk’s 2018 pay package, which included some 300 million stock options.

From Barron's

The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday overruled External link the Delaware Chancery Court’s 2024 decision to void Musk’s 2018 pay package, which included some 300 million stock options.

From Barron's

In addition to eye-popping salaries and stock options, they get access to the resources they really care about: advanced chips and computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meeting those targets delivered the underlying stock options to him, while dramatic share-price appreciation swelled their value many times over.

From The Wall Street Journal