Executive stock options exercised
Exercising Company Stock Options If you have company stock options, you can exercise those options in three ways: pay cash, swap company stock you already own or do a "cashless exercise." Paying cash for the stock is the easiest way to exercise options. Options are almost always subject to vesting, which means an executive needs to remain employed over a set period of time to own his or her options. Because of this, exercising an option doesn’t trigger the underlying spread until vesting takes place. This can be problematic when an executive attempts to take advantage of a low stock valuation.