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Chancery Invalidates Elon Musk’s $55.8 Billion Equity Compensation Package

Harvard Corporate Governance

3] The Grant On January 21, 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) [4] unanimously approved the Grant, which would vest based on Tesla’s achievement of certain market capitalization goals, as well as operational milestones related to revenue and adjusted EBITDA targets. Document the Process.

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The Perils of Governance by Stockholder Agreements (2): A Note on Unplanned Consequences

Harvard Corporate Governance

In a study titled Dancing with Activists , which Brav, Jiang, Keusch, and I co-authored, we provide an empirical study of hundreds of such settlement agreements and document the types of provisions that they include. Such companies currently enter from time to time into stockholder agreements when they settle with hedge fund activists.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Investors’ Holdings Of  Indian Stocks Top $1 Trillion

Global Finance

of India’s total market capitalization. The $1 trillion-plus figure represents a milestone for India on its way to a higher profile in the global securities markets, and a bragging point for the Modi government’s push to liberalize investment rules. Currently, FPI equity holdings account for 16.4%

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Does the Market Misprice Companies’ “Strategic Alternatives” Announcements?

Reynolds Holding

Questioning the Status Quo The traditional theory of financial markets is the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), which holds that all news is factored into stock prices immediately and correctly, on average. Returns are adjusted for firm size and book-to-market of equity.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago. billion in revenues in 2021.

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Does Lowball Guidance Work?

Reynolds Holding

As a rough measure of the prominence of lowball firms in the stock market, their market capitalization, as a percentage of the market capitalization of all S&P 1500 firms, increased from 9.3 Using the criterion that a firm beats its own EPS guidance by at least $0.05 percent in 2001 to 13.6 percent in 2017.