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

SpaceX could fetch a market valuation of upward of $1 trillion, a huge boon for its early private investors and employees with stock options.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Regarding conflicts of interest, Dr. Peterson is the President of Evolve Psychiatry Professional Corporation and an advisor to Evolve Adolescent Behavioral Health, where he receives stock options and provides expert testimony.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

It was made to cover taxes from stock options, according to the filing.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

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

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