• What is the company you have selected? AMAZON
• What is the company using their option contract for? Amazon uses options to allow
employees to vest in stock awards that correspond with their service terms. This related to
tax benefits in the billions between 2019 and 2021. As of December 2021, common stock
available for future issuance to employees was 97 million shares.
• What is the value of the option contract in the Annual Statements? The earnings per
share were $23.46 in 2019, $42.64 in 2020 and $65.96 in 2021.
• Copy/paste a picture of the value from the financial statements.
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• Imagine you are a retiree from this company and received stock as part of your
pension package benefit. What would you do with the shares to earn extra money
above the dividends? Amazons stock has continued to gain value. I would watch the
market and continue to invest in more stock. I would possibly sell call options and collect
the premium the call buyers would pay
REFERENCE
Inline XBRL Viewer. (n.d.). Retrieved January 4, 2023, from
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=%2FArchives%2Fedgar%2Fdata%2F1018724%2F000101872422000
005%2Famzn-20211231.htm
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