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

Even at Robinhood, one of the least scrupulous brokerages, someone who wants to trade stock options needs to go through at least a nominal approval process.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

He was nearly wiped out but got back on his financial footing when a venture capitalist asked him in 1986 to be chairman of the board, with stock options, of a new company called Magellan.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The Facebook owner revealed a new executive pay plan, including stock options that will be fully realized only if the share price climbs around 500% by 2031.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The stock options that the DeepMind scientists had mentally written off might soon be worth a fortune.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

For most of the people involved, the words "stock options" worked their normal, morally debilitating magic.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James