11.   Companies report their option grants in the footnotes to their financial statements.

12.   Companies that choose to reprice option grants do not usually publicize the decision.

13.   Consider the option grants given to executives.

14.   Companies usually set aside certain ranges of option grants for different kinds of positions.

15.   Depending on how the market performs over the next few years, they may wish they had stuck with smaller annual option grants.

16.   Disney, NBC and others felt they needed separately traded shares to make acquisitions for stock and offer employees option grants.

17.   Employees typically get one option grant when they join the company.

18.   Employees usually get the most options when they arrive, but many receive annual option grants as well.

19.   Few analysts expect the options grants to have much impact on profitability, either.

20.   He received option grants potentially worth tens of millions of dollars more.