Less than 5% employees actually follow their company’s performance like an investor do. Most of them only see the stock price movements. Esops are immediate gain, the difference between allotted price and the price on the day it reaches their demat accounts. And I think esops are alloted with some discount (I’m not completely sure of discount). India listed company shares can be purchased anytime from market.
Disc: I work for a leading smartphone SoC making MNC listed in USA and I get ESPP and RSU. And our company has opened an demat account with Etrade with which we can only get these shares provided by Co. We cannot purchase even my own company share from mkt let alone other company’s shares. So even if I know the share price is at higher end / resistance level I won’t be able to sell now and buy later. I haven’t sold any share so far, I’m keeping it as my retirement fund just like the people you got to know. But all my colleagues have sold at least their ESPP. ESPP we get at a discount of 15% of either the start or end (current) price of the 6 months period. So there’s a minimum 15% profit if a person sells it on the day they get it.
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