* Posts by azzah

1 publicly visible post • joined 7 Nov 2011

Apple shovels $400m in stock grants to top execs

azzah

Options are not shares

Umm... Isn't there a difference between options and shares?

Like, if you have options over $400m worth of shares, you have to stump up the $400m in cash to actually get the shares and you only make money if the value of the shares go up? So, for this to be worth $400m to the people named, the shares have to go from being worth the $400m they have to pay for them to $800m in value.

And if the company's share price does go from $400/share to $800/share as a result of their work (is that a case of increasing the value of the company from $400b to $800b???), well, they deserve their place in the 1%'ers.

Of course, if they don't to that, they get nothing.