Publicly traded corporations often award company shares to their employees as part of the compensation package. However, the employee must work a certain number of years before she can sell these shares. Understanding the rights and restrictions associated with these unvested shares is important if you own such stock.

Definition

In finance, vesting refers to the transfer of full ownership of a financial instrument. If a company has set aside a certain amount of stock for you, but stipulates that certain conditions have to be met before these stocks are assigned to you, such shares are considered unvested. Until the shares vest, you cannot sell or transfer them to another party. You also can't use the voting rights that come with stock ownership if the stock has not yet vested. In other words, you have nothing but a promise of future transfer of shares if they are still unvested.

Vesting Process

In most cases, a predetermined amount of time must pass for the shares to vest. An executive, for example, may be promised 100,000 of his company's own shares that will be awarded to him in two years. The two-year period is referred to as the vesting period. Less frequently, the vesting process might be contingent on meeting performance targets. The executive may be given shares only if the company's net profit reaches a particular target, for example, or if the stock price of the company exceeds a threshold by a certain date.
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Όροι που χρησιμοποιούνται για τη διαδικασία vesting:

κατοχύρωση
θεμελίωση
ωρίμανση
ενεργοποίηση
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Συχνά το δικαίωμα προαίρεσης αγοράς μετοχών από εργαζομένους μπορεί να ασκηθεί μόνο μετά από την παρέλευση περιόδου κατοχύρωσης δικαιώματος (vesting period) ή/και αν πληρούνται ορισμένες προϋποθέσεις (όπως π.χ., ελάχιστη αύξηση της τιμής μετοχής).