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

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

This wouldn’t be news except for the fact that the strike prices for the included stock options range from $1,116 a share to $3,727.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Friday delivers a “triple witching” event, with the quarterly expiration of stock options, stock index futures, and stock index options.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Those gains value the company at about $1.8 trillion, including CEO Elon Musk’s vested stock options, and trading for about 206 times estimated 2026 earnings.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 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 Nadin, Mihai