Re: wonder where your stock equity is going
It is not really the Stock Options that we should worry about because they are basically giving someone an option to buy stock in the future at today's price. The thing you have to worry about are the RSU's issued. In each monthly option report they say a certain amount are stock options with a vesting price and then there are a certain amount that are RSU's. An RSU is a freebe to the person getting the RSU, it is basically a bonus. For example when someone signs on they may get 500 RSU's that vest over 5 years, meaning they get a bonus of 100 free shares each year on their anniversary date for 5 years. Upper level employees get RSU's as a signing bonus and an incentive to stay but they add up and cost the company much more than stock options.