RE:Registered shareholders?Hmmm. The 5% of shares outstanding cap is not an annual award. Can you imagine after 10 years of getting 5% a year they would be given 50% of the shares of the company? The 5% is the at any time limit. So at any time, the outstanding share awards can't exceed 5%. There are other practical limits like no one person can get 10% of that 5%. You have to compare it to every other company on the tsx to comment on it being overly generous or not. Almost every other tsx company issues stock options instead of these restricted stock awards. Stock options are usually capped at 10% of outstanding shares. That's double the dilution of sgy. They are more like a lottery ticket because they can expire worthless if the stock drops. Stock options vs RSA is another discussion for another day, but suffice to say each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
soundandfury wrote: If you own shares of surge through a broker you are not a registered shareholder........according to sgy info circular only shareholders who are on the sgy books are registered ......in other words sgy has the names and addresses of only shareholders on their registry.......probably insiders etc..........also worth noteing that in the info circular they raised the stock incentive plan from 4.5% to 5% of outstanding shares for executive share incentive plan.......generally sgy has executive comp of about 10 million per year with about 1/2 of that amount paid via share incentive plan........also they have protected their share plan in case of a change in control of the company by making all share incentives issued vested immediately upon change of control.......usually vesting takes about 2 years .........looks to me like management likes to issue stock to itself as it says right in the info circular to avoid paying cash or buying back stock in the open market to give to executives.......anyhow i would recommend all shareholders read this circular to see how sgy executives are being compensated