thank you thank you thank you, (piece of mind) thats "roughly" what i came up with, but with all the different opinions of, and interpretations of, my calculations were pretty wide 244K all the way to 301K, i was just trying to make sure i had the right number of shares and will let the bean counters and the market calculate the share price, can't thank you enough, i can be a little more patient now. now i can just cheer on the share price and wait for my 1 year mark to avoid the higher capital gains (a problem i can get used to)