Poll: What Is the Largest Equity Compensation Challenge You Face?

Written by Ed Hauder on April 21, 2010 - 0 Comments

I would like to make sure that my blog focuses on the issues that will the most helpful for folks.  So, if you wouldn’t mind completing this quick 1 question poll, it would really help me figure that out.  You’ll have to register on the blog so you can respond (sorry, was getting some spam [...]

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Say It Isn’t So! No Support for Share Authorizations That Last More Than 3 Years?

Written by Ed Hauder on April 7, 2010 - 0 Comments

I recently received the following question and thought it worth sharing so folks can gain a little perspective on what is happening with equity plan proposals. Q. A public company will need to submit its stock plan for shareholder approval in the next few years.  This company has a substantial amount of stock allocated to [...]

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Dilution in the Palm of Your Hand? There’s Now an App for That!

Written by Ed Hauder on March 27, 2010 - 0 Comments

Dilution Calculator for Your SmartPhone – iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm or Windows Mobile I have stumbled upon a very useful, template-driven financial calculator, powerOne calculator, that allows you to program new templates and functions.  As a first test of it I wrote a dilution calculator (code below). Feel free to copy and use this code for noncommercial [...]

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Exequity’s Quick-Take Study: Long-Term Incentive Trends: 2010 vs. 2009 CEO Long-Term Incentive Opportunity

Written by Ed Hauder on March 18, 2010 - 0 Comments

After a general industry decline in long-term incentive (LTI) opportunity from 2008 to 2009, Exequity analyzed insider filings (Form 4) for the CEOs from Fortune 500 companies to gauge the percent change in LTI opportunity from 2009 to 2010. Overall, our study found that median LTI opportunity increased 8% relative to a 36% stock price [...]

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Heads Up: Does performance (TSR) measured on another day smell as sweet?

Written by Ed Hauder on March 11, 2010 - 0 Comments

RiskMetrics uses the median 1- and 3-year Total Shareholder Returns (TSRs) for a company’s 4-digit GICS industry group in applying the first screen of its pay for performance test.  Only if a company’s own 1- and 3-year TSR are both below the company’s GICS industry group 1- and 3-year medians, will RiskMetrics continue on with [...]

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