9/6/98: National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) executive director Corey Rosen addresses stock option repricing in his latest column at the NCEO's Web site. Excerpt:
With the recent fall in the stock market, the issue of stock option repricing has become a hot topic in many companies. Even in the bull markets of 1996 and 1997, as many as 33% of Silicon Valley companies repriced options, while 5% to 7% of public companies issuing options repriced them in 1997. A 1998 NCEO survey of broad-based stock option plan companies found that 36% had repriced in the last three years. Expectations are that many more companies will reprice in the current down market. In considering whether to reprice options, companies need to consider several factors.
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