What's happening, increasingly, is that employees or top executive employees, at least, in companies are rewarded as part of their compensation with options on the value of the stock of the company they work for.

现在越发普遍的情况是,雇员,或者至少是高管,可获得他们所在公司额外的股票期权,当做薪酬的一部分,作为其优秀管理的回报

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When you pay out stock dividends you would think that now there are more shares, everyone divides by the larger number of shares, and the value of the company goes down; it's not going to work to pay a stock dividend.

当你发放股票股利时,就会意识到,股票总数增加了,每个人的股数除以增加后的总股数,每人拥有的公司价值减少,发行股票股利无法达成目的

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