Replies to post #3255 on Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc (EKSO)

[Rhetorical]

I would say that's the most likely conclusion. Nobody wants to pay capital gains taxes so if the employee options were simply for a set number of shares - it would make more sense for the employees to wait to convert their options until the market price was high as to avoid gains.

So clearly it's more likely their options are such that the number of shares they receive depends on current market value. So assuming this was true, they would either get a large number of low value shares, or a small number of high value shares depending on the market value, but with equal cash values.

I should point out it seems possible that the company could have a more complicated stock option. So for example they might say 80% of the stock option would be based on cash value, and 20% would be based on market value. A case like this might mean it's less clear that the people converting think this a low point.

I'm not certain about how Ekso's employee stock options are structured to completely honest. If I had to guess however, I would say their options are more likely based on cash value than market value. I'd be interested to hear if anyone can find out about this.

I'm long EKSO