Option Exercise

An option exercise is an event representing a stakeholder exercising their right to purchase shares of an issuer at a set price, the strike price, defined in the option grant being exercised. The result of a successfully completed exercise is the issuance of a certificate.

OCF Equivalent

Maps to OCF's EquityCompensationExercise (or legacy PlanSecurityExercise).

EquityCompensationExercise — exercise tx

Related:

PlanSecurityExercise — exercise tx. Predecessor schema retained for backward compatibility.

Endpoints

GET /v1alpha1/issuers/{issuerId}/optionExercises — list

Shape at a glance

Quick comparison of field names, types, and required-ness. See the full Carta properties below, or follow the OCF link for full OCF field documentation.

Carta — v1alpha1OptionExercise

An option exercise is an event representing a stakeholder exercising their right to purchase shares of an issuer at a set price, the strike price, defined in the option grant being exercised. The result of a successfully completed exercise is the issuance of a certificate.

Property	Type	Req
`id`	string
`issuerId`	string
`stakeholderId`	string
`optionGrantId`	string
`certificateId`	string
`quantity`	`v1alpha1Decimal`
`exerciseTime`	`v1alpha1Iso8601CompleteCalendarDateTime`
`state`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseState`
`exerciseType`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseType`
`recordType`	`securitiesoptionexercisesv1alpha1StockOptionType`
`taxWithholding`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseTaxWithholdingLineItem`[]
`moneyMovement`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseMoneyMovement`

OCF — EquityCompensationExercise

Object describing equity compensation exercise transaction

Property	Type	Required
id	`STRING`	`REQUIRED`
comments	[`STRING`]	-
object_type	Constants (Backwards Compatibility): `TX_PLAN_SECURITY_EXERCISE, TX_EQUITY_COMPENSATION_EXERCISE` Defined in schema/enums/ObjectType	`REQUIRED`
date	schema/types/Date	`REQUIRED`
security_id	`STRING`	`REQUIRED`
consideration_text	`STRING`	-
resulting_security_ids	[`STRING`]	`REQUIRED`
quantity	schema/types/Numeric	`REQUIRED`

Properties

Property	Type	Description
`id`	string	The identifier of the option exercise. Note: It is possible for this ID to not exist for legacy reasons, in which case the value of this field will be `"NO_ID"`
`issuerId`	string	The identifier of the issuer that issued the option grant.
`stakeholderId`	string	The identifier of the stakeholder that holds the option grant being exercised.
`optionGrantId`	string	The identifier of the option grant being exercised.
`certificateId`	string	The identifier of the certificate issued as a result of the option exercise event completing.
`quantity`	`v1alpha1Decimal`	The number of shares being exercised from the related option grant.
`exerciseTime`	`v1alpha1Iso8601CompleteCalendarDateTime`	The date and time in which the option exercise request was initiated.
`state`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseState`	The current state of the exercise request.
`exerciseType`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseType`	The type of option exercise being requested.
`recordType`	`securitiesoptionexercisesv1alpha1StockOptionType`	The type of the record associated with the option exercise.
`taxWithholding`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseTaxWithholdingLineItem`[]	The tax withholding information associated with the option exercise.
`moneyMovement`	`v1alpha1OptionExerciseMoneyMovement`	The money movement information associated with the option exercise.

Referenced by

(not embedded in other domain objects)

Underlying schema: v1alpha1OptionExercise

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