restricted stock

American  

noun

1. unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.

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Example Sentences

During the past two decades, SpaceX has hired thousands of staff and granted them boatloads of restricted stock units, incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options that have vested over time.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Beck also voluntarily forfeited and cancelled 392,155 restricted stock units.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

He will also get 3.75 million shares of restricted stock that will vest over five years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Past filings show the CEO typically has received performance-based restricted stock units that vest at a later date.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

Greg Lippmann was paid $47 million in 2007, although $24 million of it was in restricted stock that he could not collect unless he hung around Deutsche Bank for a few more years.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis