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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (177334)4/1/2004 9:19:42 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Dan Gilmore just wrote an article that expresses my sentiments on options exactly.

Silicon Valley: Stop whining and give constructive ideas

The fat lady is singing on stock options. And Silicon Valley would be wise to stop whining.

The executives who get giant options grants as part of their lucrative compensation have surely calculated their value, or at least someone must have run the numbers for them (and the company) in contract negotiations.

If the industry wants to make the proverbial lemonade from what it considers a lemon, it should help FASB come up with valuation methods that give investors a more realistic understanding of options' impact. The accounting board effectively invited such assistance in its proposal.

But if the industry wants to keep insisting it's Silicon Valley's way or the highway, it'll end up alienating even its friends. Using the options debate to threaten even more offshoring of jobs is not a smart tactic, by the way. (yes I totally agree with this)

Whining time is over. Investors and financial analysts will learn, if they didn't know already, to go beyond earnings-per-share numbers to see how companies are really doing relative to their industry peers.
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