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Equity Incentive Analytics (EIA)
provides actionable investment ideas based on the relationship between
both abnormal executive stock option behavior and equity incentive plan design,
and future earnings/stock price performance.
Employing the Equity Incentive Factor model,
we leverage our
proprietary Equity Incentive Database
that contains hand-collected stock option grant data and the details
of executive equity plans for over 2,000 firms for each year since 1995.
We evaluate a company’s procedures and controls to determine
whether equity incentives are effective at aligning the interest of shareholders
and recipients, or are merely motivating executives to control the timing of
financial and other information to maximize their personal wealth (including opportunistic grants).
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Our thought-leaders on stock options and executive behavior
leverage fifteen years of research and financial engineering
to deliver this novel analyst-driven product.
Recently completed academic research by our Founders establishes
an unambiguous link between
equity incentive/stock option structure, plan design, executive exercise behavior and
future earnings/stock price performance.
The
EIA White Paper
summarizes our relevant research findings.
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Our Founders, Dr. Carr Bettis and Dr. Donn Vickrey,
are world-renown academicians. They have published in
the world’s leading finance, economic, and accounting
academic journals. Their academic work provides the
foundation for our Earnings Quality Analytics service
and the Gradient Factor Suite, as well as for non-Gradient
products such as Lancer Analytics, currently offered
by Thomson Financial.
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