ESO Forfeit Value Concepts

POSTED ON August 15, 2011 BY Bill Dillhoefer

    A video describing what equity compensation recipients are really leaving on the table when they leave their company to work for another.  It is more than just the in-the-money value of the unvested stock and options.

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Employee Options: Exercise Strategy in Volatile Market

POSTED ON August 15, 2011 BY Bill Dillhoefer

The *Insight Ratio® is a powerful metric that indicates when it is timely to exercise employee stock options and diversify the proceeds (that is, take some money off the table). The option holder, probably with the assistance of a financial advisor, selects an Insight Ratio, say 10% that is appropriate to her financial situation (e.g., […]

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Insight and VaR Ratio Concepts

POSTED ON August 15, 2011 BY stockopter

    A video describing the Key Ratio Dashboard and concept on StockOpter.com.  The “Insight” and the “VaR” ratios illustrate the risk v. reward and are good factors for determining when to exercise.

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Summary of Academic Research on Subjective Valuations of Stock Options

POSTED ON August 13, 2011 BY Bill Dillhoefer

Employees’ Subjective Valuation of Their Stock Options: Evidence on the Distribution of Valuations and the Use of Simple Anchors (Summary of Findings) This research examines employees’ subjective valuations of their stock options, compared to firms’ opportunity cost of issuing those options. In both “real-world” and experiment data, results show that a significant proportion of employees […]

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Equity Comp. Concentration Concepts

POSTED ON August 12, 2011 BY stockopter

    A video describing the “Concentration Dashboard” in StockOpter.com and the concepts it is based on.  In general, equity compensation concentration is the value of company stock and options (vested & unvested) compared to all other investments.

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ESO Leverage Concepts

POSTED ON August 10, 2011 BY stockopter

    A video describing the concept of stock option leverage using the StockOpter Dashboards.  The leverage inherent in ESO results in value percentage increases greater than the percent increase in stock price.

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Black Scholes Value Concepts

POSTED ON August 8, 2011 BY stockopter

    A StockOpter video describing the “Black Scholes Dashboard” and the concepts it is based on. Black Scholes is a methodolgy for illustrating the fair or full value of an option (In-the-Money value + Time Value)

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