Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : The New QUALCOMM - Coming Into Buy Range -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5972)	2/16/2010 11:38:30 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9129

I wouldn't like it if QCOM shareholders are buying back shares . . . when insiders are unloading their stock option acquisitions. Neither would I. One answer, of course, is that the company should not be so forthcoming with options deals for its management. Options have lost their true purpose, which is to give management and employees an incentive to excel. Options in the truest sense should be used as an alternative to salary by deferring taxes on the incentive or by actually lowering taxes by turning what would ordinarily be salary into capital gains with a preferential tax rate. And if individuals do not excel, they do not deserve options, or they do not deserve to make money on their options. Art