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Shares that $100,000 of grant-date value covers, by share price

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-11-07, from The $100,000 Rule for Stock Options (ISOs).

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Shares that $100,000 of grant-date value covers, by share price — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolas_of_labelgrant_priceshares_under_cap_count
MSFTNov 6, 2026530.61188
AAPLNov 6, 2026342.37292
JNJNov 6, 2026276.22362
AMZNNov 6, 2026259.3385
NVDANov 6, 2026186.64535
KONov 6, 202695.671045
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Shares that $100,000 of grant-date value covers, by share price, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 6 distinct values (AAPL, AMZN, JNJ…)
as_of_label text 1 distinct value (Nov 6, 2026)
grant_price number 95.67 to 530.61 US dollars
shares_under_cap_count number 188 to 1,045 count

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    ticker                                                   AS symbol,
    formatDateTime(max(date), '%b %e, %Y')                   AS as_of_label,
    round(toFloat64(argMax(close, date)), 2)                 AS grant_price,
    toUInt32(floor(100000 / toFloat64(argMax(close, date)))) AS shares_under_cap_count
FROM global_markets.stocks_daily_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'AMZN', 'NVDA')
  AND date >= today() - 20
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY grant_price DESC
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