stock option
noun
1
: an option contract involving stock
2
: a right granted by a corporation to officers or employees as a form of compensation that allows purchase of corporate stock at a fixed price usually within a specified period
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Yet even adjusted for age, millennials and Gen Zers like to live further out on the risk curve, with meme stocks, stock options, cryptocurrencies and other more speculative asset classes.
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Robert Frank, CNBC, 5 June 2025
An example of the latter includes receiving restricted stock units (RSUs) or exercising incentive stock options (ISOs).
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Her compensation has consisted largely of stock options, some granted as early as 2014.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 13 May 2025
In addition to supporting high salary jobs, tech companies offer employees stock options, so the state benefits from taxing capital gains, the profit earned when the shareholder sells their stock for a higher price.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Robert Frank, CNBC, 5 June 2025
An example of the latter includes receiving restricted stock units (RSUs) or exercising incentive stock options (ISOs).
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Her compensation has consisted largely of stock options, some granted as early as 2014.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 13 May 2025
In addition to supporting high salary jobs, tech companies offer employees stock options, so the state benefits from taxing capital gains, the profit earned when the shareholder sells their stock for a higher price.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Stock option.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock%20option. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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