Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive
by potatolicious on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:36PM
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No, because in order to achieve the same outcome you'd need to have $800K to buy AAPL in 2019. Taking your $200K in cash each year will result in buying $200K of AAPL in 2020, $200K of AAPL in 2021, etc... which bypasses a great deal of the gains.
Part of the power of RSU packages is that is equivalent to a very large stock purchase that is a multiple of your earning power that you earn out of over time.
So yes, if you have a lot of liquid capital, taking a $200K/yr stock package from Apple in 2019 is "equivalent" to putting $800K into AAPL all at once. The trick is that more people can do the former than the latter.
Part of the power of RSU packages is that is equivalent to a very large stock purchase that is a multiple of your earning power that you earn out of over time.
So yes, if you have a lot of liquid capital, taking a $200K/yr stock package from Apple in 2019 is "equivalent" to putting $800K into AAPL all at once. The trick is that more people can do the former than the latter.