Phantom Stock Plan

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Phantom stock plan

An incentive scheme that awards management bonuses based on increases in the market price of the company's stock.

Phantom Stock Award

A plan to compensate senior management of a publicly-traded company in which the company grants an employee a "hypothetical" stock. That is, the company gives the employee the benefits of owning stock in the company without actually giving him/her stock. The phantom stock increases or decreases in price and pays dividends as if it were real. Eventually, the phantom stock is settled and cash is distributed to the employee. See also: Stock option.

phantom stock plan

An incentive plan for a firm's executives in which the executives are offered bonuses based on increases in the market price of the firm's stock. A phantom stock plan is supposed to induce the executives to act in the best interests of the shareholders.

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