StockOpter Advisor News: January 2012

POSTED ON January 31, 2012 BY Bill Dillhoefer

Now that we are one month into 2012 please be aware that our main goal this year is to help you to drive more business. So these monthly new briefs will contain a variety of ideas & resources to help you to engage employees with equity compensation and to provide them with prudent advice. If […]

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Black-Scholes Value and Employee Stock Options (Part 2)

POSTED ON January 16, 2012 BY Bill Dillhoefer

A StockOpter White Paper This section builds upon the material presented in Black-Scholes Value and Employee Stock Options Part I. It gives the actual BSV equation and explores some of the associated issues in somewhat more depth. Variables and Equations Let: C = the value of a call stock option. S = the current price […]

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Black-Scholes vs. Binomial Lattice for ESO Valuation

POSTED ON January 12, 2012 BY Bill Dillhoefer

A StockOpter White Paper StockOpter.com is designed to educate employee stock option (ESO) holders about this fabled form of compensation.  A key part of understanding ESOs is understanding that an option of any kind (employee or market traded) has a value unique to the characteristics of the option.  Fortunately, there are widely accepted algorithms for […]

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Black-Scholes Value and Employee Stock Options (Part 1)

POSTED ON January 10, 2012 BY Bill Dillhoefer

A StockOpter White Paper Employee Stock Options (ESOs) are still an important part of many companies’ executive compensation programs. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in determining precisely what they are worth. The requirement to account for ESOs as expenses in corporate financial statements has increased the focus on the question of what they are worth. However, […]

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