Employee Stock options?
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Too important a question to ask here...call you lawyer and accountant.
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I hear that buying Royalty Dividends is hot.  Know what it is?  If not, its stock in fuel.  Not alot of investors mess with it but there is a big market for it on the net.  Just set up e*trade account and go!  You get a check monthly or option to convert back to stock options.  That's what I'm hearing!
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You need to know whether or not your company is going to match dollar for dollar what percentage is the company going to top off at? How many employees? What type of retirement-investments-bonds-stocks \nGet with the company below go to contact and just ask\nHow do I get started they will go from there.\nThere are also independent dealers look in your phone book
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There are four types of options that you could get:\n\n1.  Qualified stock options\n2.  Nonqualified stock options\n3.  Warrants\n4.  OTC or Exchange traded options.\n\nThe first two are granted to employees or those related to the firm in some way (e.g., board members).  The third are long term options sold by the company.  They could then be sold in the secondary market.  It sounds like this is what you have.  The fourth is a contract between two parties that does not involve the company.\n\nQualified stock options are part of a plan.  For most people, no taxes are due when the option is exercised.  When the stock is sold, the value above the strike price is considered capital gains and is taxed as such.  If you are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), then when you exercise, you have to pay AMT tax (20%) on the difference between the strike price and the fair market value.  If the stock is traded publicly, then the fair market value is the price.  If it is right before IPO, then the IRS will make you use the IPO price as the fair market value.  If it is more than six months to IPO, then the company can pretty much set its own value for the fair market value -- though if private equity was recently sold, that sets the market price.  When the stock is sold, the fair market value, rather than the strike price, becomes the basis for valuing the capital gains.\n\nFor nonqualified stock options, ordinary income tax is due on the difference between the strike price and the fair market value when the options are exercised.  For companies going IPO there is a real savings to exercising before IPO if the issue is going to be underpriced.  Dot-Commers saved millions in taxes doing this before the bust -- but there is a risk -- those who did it right before the bust owed millions in taxes, but had worthless stock.\n\nFor warrants or traded options, no taxes are due until the stock is sold -- at which time the value above the strike price is a capital gain.  However, if you sell the option before exercising, there may be taxes due on the gain of the option.
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consult your employer or 401K manager
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Contact a Mutual Fund, such as T.Rowe Price or Scudder or a number of others who will act as administrator for your plan for clarification of your needs. \n\nThe basic 401(k) plan simply allows employees to make pre-tax contributions up to a certain level, with no company contributions.
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401(k) plan with company matching contribution 50 cents to your dollar - 3 year vesting. Potential for an additional 25 cents on the dollar dependent upon meeting our company goals. \nPaid holidays (10 per year) \nPaid vacation (equivalency of a minimum of 10 days per year after waiting period) \nUp to 100% tuition assistance. $1,500 annually for undergraduate and $3,000 annually for graduate classes per calendar year \nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP) - Free confidential off-site counseling service \nPaid personal time off - 24 hours/year full-time; 12 hours/year part-time \n\nFull time Employees may take advantage of the following additional benefits: \n\nComprehensive medical insurance options \n\nPre-tax premiums \n\nEconomical dental plan through MetLife - YOU choose your dentist! \n\nVision Plan (full and part-time employees are eligible) \nPaid medical leave \n\nCompany paid life insurance policy at 1½ times your annual salary with inexpensive supplemental options \n\nLong Term disability \n\nOptional long term care insurance through UNUM \n\nOptional supplemental cancer insurance through AFLAC \n\nChild adoption assistance program \n\nPre-tax spending accounts for medical and dependent care expenses \n\nEOE \nEqual Opportunity Employer\n\n:>peace
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To my knowledge, they can't.  Stock options have nothing to do with inflating earnings.  If anything, they deflate the earnings statement b/c they now have to be expensed at issue (a provision of SOX).  If executives omit the options expense on the earnings report I think they're comitting faud.
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Roger and Jean gave the basics.  Go to your HR department and ask specific questions.  If that doesn't help, call Fidelity or T. Rowe Price or Strong Funds.  They explain everything in very easy terms.
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A "stock option" is a set price for a group of stocks in a company.  Usually given to employees, sometimes to investors directly realted to a company.  With a stock option, you can get say a group of 100 stocks at an option to purchase for $5 each.  The option matures at some point in time where you can actually make this purchase at said price.  But, there is a possibility that the market price for the stock could be $100 at that time.  You just made $95 per stock on the purchase.  A real incentive for employees to work harder to make their company worth more in the market place.
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If you are using My Yahoo, you can set up up a Stock Portfolio segment right on your home screen.  You can set up separate categories for each set of stocks (purchased, watchlist, etc.)  It's very easy to use.  The stock prices are updated every time you log on or hit "refresh".  As with any stock tracking program, there is typically a 20 minute delay for stock quotes however if you have an online account with a brokerage, typically that website will enable you to get "real time quotes".  For example, I use www.optionsexpress.com. It is a great brokerage site for both stocks and options.  On that site, you can set "alerts" for either a percentage change (you set the percentage) or a dollar amount change in your stock price either up or down.  The alert is sent to an email address of your choice.  Check your online brokerage service because they most likely offer that service.  Another program that I use to track stocks is www.marketwatch.com.  It's free but you have to sign up or register for it.  They also provide the ability to set "alerts" on changes in stock prices or news about your stock.  Be sure to "opt out" of all of the free services and product emails or you'll get a lot of spam.
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Restricted stock typically just means that the stock you get has a vesting period, which is the length of time that you have to stay at the company before you actually receive the stock.\n\nI don't know what type of vesting schedule that your company has.  You'll have to ask them.  But if you leave the company before some/all of the stock vests, you don't get that portion.\n\nAre they offering you restricted stock or stock options as a choice?  Or are they offering you the stock instead of some of your salary?  Typically, companies will give more options (around 2x or 3x) than they would restricted shares because at the end of the vesting period, if the value of the stock is below the strike, the options are worth 0, while the restricted stock still keeps the same value as the stock price.\n\nYou have to find out the details.  If they're just giving you "free" stock with being with the company, you might as well take it.
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They don't really buy the stock.  Normally, they can get stock options granted to them as part of their compensation package.  Usually, though, the exercise price of the options is above 0.  This doesn't really matter.  They're still getting "free" money in that they don't have to buy the stock on the open market.
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EAG is trading this morning. $1.54 last trade, has traded over 65000 shares this morning. Whatever broker you are using is a moron. The pennies you are saving from using a moron is costing you lots of aggravation and lost trading opportunity. There are lots of discounters out there...i would find another if i were you!
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Tell them it would be a very good idea to introduce life insurance. For a very little value their employees will earn a peace for mind knowing that their faimly is financially secure in any eventuality. It also acts as a motivating factor for the employees knowing that the company cares about them.
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Stock option grants and stock grants are two forms of compensation often offered as incentives in addition to base salary offered to a newly hired employee. This practice is especially common in the high tech industry. \n\nStock options are contracts that allow you to buy or sell specific amount of a particular stock at a certain price within a set period of time. The set price is called the strike price. When you (the stock option holder) make use of your right to buy/sell stock according to the terms of the option, you are exercising the option. Call options are options giving you the right to buy stock. Put options are options giving you the right to sell stock. Employers grant call options to employees. Let's take an example: Let's say you are hired by Google and they offer you options to buy 100 shares of Google stock at $400 within the next 5 years. This stock option gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Google stock at exactly $400 any time within the next 5 years. Let's say it's after four years now. Suppose Google stock is at $300 now, now your options are worthless, because you could buy Google stock in the market for $300, much less than the $400 price offered by your stock option. Now suppose Google stock is at $500 now, then if you exercise your option, you could buy 100 shares at $400. Then you can turn around and sell it on the stock market for the current price of $500, making a $100*100=$10000 profit. So the stock option is basically not worth anything if currently the stock price is lower than your option strike price. But as long as your option has not expired, it's possible that the stock price could go above your strike price and make your stock options worth something.\n\nStock grants are simpler to understand. The employer gives you some shares of stock for free. So let's use the Google example again. Suppose Google hired you and gave you 100 shares in a stock grant. Now you own 100 shares of Google stock. At anytime, you could sell that stock for whatever price it is trading at on the stock market.\n\nStock option and stock grants are usually offered on terms called vesting. That means that you are not given the full amount of options or stock right away, but rather the employer gives it to you over time. A common vesting schedule is vesting over four years, so that you get 1/4 of the stock or options offered after the first, second, third, and fourth year you have been at the company. This is done to give employees an incentive to stay at the company.
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