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What does it mean to "increase the number of Issuable Option Shares and Restricted Stock"?

Would it decrease the stock value?

Public Comments

1. It should. It means that management is planning to give shares of stock as compensation to employees. As those shares are acquired by the employees through ISOs, NSQs, and restricted stock, they expand the number of shares outstanding. More shares outstanding dilutes the value of the existing shares...so in a perfect world, this depresses the value of the stock.
2. opshun=yu hav a pees av paper that sae yu kan bi stok at a preset pries inside a time band. A lotta thees R frinj benefits tu big brass in the kumpany. Kumpany giv awae or sell opshuns at very lo pries so bigwigs kan get stok cheep, then sell & make big profit. Yuzeyually inklude limits on wen kan start & time limit & maby limit on how many shares at 1 time.