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Employee stock option

An employee stock option, or ESO, is a Call option written by the corporation that issued the Underlying security. Unlike a Traded stock option, an employee stock options is Dilutive, since the corporation granting the options issues new stock or treasury stock to the option holder when the option is exercised.

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