stock options

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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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Blau is a cofounder of Myoforte/Epirium and holds equity and stock options in the company.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

When she said she worked for Amazon, still in its infancy, Canin advised that she try to get stock options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Arnott said he suspects that “buybacks tend to ramp up when management is redeeming stock options, arguably to help facilitate the redemptions.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Yet even more generous are the stock options that the employees have been allowed to partially cash in via limited share sales.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

From barter to the trading of commodities futures and stock options, from money to the cashless society, markets constitute frameworks for higher transaction efficiency, often equated with profit.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin