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Strategies & Market Trends : Employee Stock Options - NQSOs & ISOs
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To: Clarksterh who wrote (36)6/13/2002 3:49:33 PM
From: hueyoneRead Replies (1) of 786
 
Yes, I am missing your point. Cash flow is cash flow and there is no making cash flow "smoother or rougher". In the end, net cash provided by operating activities is a pretty hard number.

Can you tell me from your philosophical point of view how donating shares to charity and taking a charge against earnings (net income) for the market value of the securities is different than compensating employees with stock options and valuing the options at market value minus strike price at time of exercise and taking a charge against earnings? Again, you cannot. There is no economic difference.

I am beginning to suspect that as a telecommunications executive with a Stanford degree, that your compensation package is likely to be heavily weighted with stock options and that your objectivity in this manner is colored accordingly.<ggg>

Uncle Frank's only complaint about stock options is that he doesn't have any. I don't have any complaints against stock options; my only complaint is that there is no accounting for stock options. In some cases this has perverted investment opportunities so that otherwise good companies are no longer a worthwhile investment from the public's point of view---unless the greater fool theory rises to prevail once again.

Best, Huey
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