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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He will be allowed to retain and exercise some previously vested stock options but won’t receive severance payments, benefits or accelerated stock-based awards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

And there are different ways investors can profit from these stocks through stock options.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 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

Much of Zaslav’s compensation is in stock options and equity awards, the value of which soared after Paramount offered to buy Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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