A restricted stock unit (RSU) is an award of shares that comes with conditions, usually a vesting period before they are ...

There's no shortage of legendary tales about workers striking it rich with employee stock options. At Microsoft (MSFT), for example, the tech boom of the 1990s reportedly made approximately 10,000 ...

Speaking at the International Design Conference in Aspen in June 1983, the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder fielded a question about giving workers a stake in the company and used it to walk the ...

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR), reflected on the company's employee equity strategy, saying early stock grants generated substantial wealth for the first team ...

RSUs and stock options differ significantly in how they’re granted and taxed, as well as the level of risk to investors. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...