How to Use stock option in a Sentence

stock option

noun
  • That’s what stock options give you.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?
    — Kevin McGill, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The past six months or so have been rough for buyers of stock options.
    — Simon Constable, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And Bird’s stock option award could end up being worth very little.
    — Orla McCaffrey, Dallas News, 16 July 2019
  • The compensation was mostly a mix of cash, stock and stock options.
    — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Like many bigwigs, Benioff’s real worth comes from his stock options.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • Today on the show, how stock options built California as a tech hub.
    — Darian Woods, NPR, 24 June 2026
  • This is often the case in the stock option game, where the employee takes less money in salary in exchange for stock.
    — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Bold bets can also be seen in the market for stock options, which are derivatives tied to the share price of a stock.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The value of his Meta stock options and other investments has climbed.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Cheap stock options provide less incentives for the company to take risks.
    — Brad Badertscher, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Cheap stock options provide less incentives for the company to take risks.
    — Brad Badertscher, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
  • All employees are given stock options.
    — Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But more valuable are the long-term incentive bonuses, which are paid in shares of stock and stock options and are based on earnings.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • The stock options and units generally vest one-quarter per year on the anniversary of the date of the grant.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • There are also some people reading this post who once had stock options that are now worthless or left unvested.
    — David Rae, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But, there is a downside—the value of stock options can diminish or even become worthless if the stock price drops.
    — Gegham Azatyan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • For years, the most popular use of stock options was to construct covered call positions.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Day said this saved millions of dollars and that Cigna rewarded her with bonuses and stock options.
    — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Four-star admiral is accused of trading Navy contracts for job and stock options.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, the soaring stock has set Musk up to receive some generous stock options.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • That doesn’t include her stock options and a bonus tied to the company’s IPO price.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The actress has already been paid $1 million and stock options as part of a deal agreed in 2022.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Many employees were still poorly paid, but Smith talked constantly about how most of them had stock options and would soon be rich.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Daily Intelligencer, 10 June 2018
  • With the connivance of the board of directors, he was afforded all sorts of corporate perks and huge grants of stock options.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Lubetzky has, at numerous times, talked about his decision to give all full-time team members stock options.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Ford figures do not include stock options that Tesla grants employees, and that can be worth a lot.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Colter will play a lawyer fired by a Silicon Valley start-up intending to cheat him out of his stock options.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That trend appears to be continuing–including awards of stock options.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For stock options, puts generally trade at a premium to at-the-money options and out-of-the-money calls.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 May 2026

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