Opinion

Why Investors Should Be Wary of Stock-Based Compensation

— June 10, 2019
Aswath Damodaran

By Aswath Damodaran

If a company chooses to pay an employee with options or restricted stock, that action will affect the value of your share of equity in the company, no matter how many contingencies are added to these claims.

By Aswath Damodaran

As an investor, the two words that you should dread the most in a financial statement are “adjusted earnings”, as companies take accounting earnings and tweak them for sundry items.

Read the full Financial Times article. 

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Aswath Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business.