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Nonqualified Stock Option
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Nonqualified Stock Option
Any employee stock option that does not meet with IRS requirements for preferential tax treatment.


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In a non-qualified stock option plan, employees are given an option to purchase company stock at a set price after a specific future date.
In addition, the survey found that non-qualified stock options are still the most common form of equity compensations (95 percent of the responding companies currently grant NQSOs).
Stock options come in two varieties: incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
 
 
 
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