Why Nikola Corporation Stock Slumped 6% on Wednesday
Shares of electric- and fuel cell-powered truckmaker Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) stock plunged to close Wednesday down 6.2% after the company revealed, in a DEF 14A filing with the SEC, that in 2020 it issued "performance-based stock units" to company executives worth a combined $567 million -- a value exceeding 10% of Nikola's entire market capitalization at present.
Nikola explained the stock grants as being "intended to compensate our named executive officers over its three-year term and" said the awards "will become vested as to all shares subject to it only if our share price increases to $55 during the three-year performance period."
So it's not 100% certain that the awards, although granted, will ever actually vest, or that the executives will actually receive the stock in question. It all depends on whether Nikola, which at one point after its IPO via a SPAC company in 2020 had approached a valuation of nearly $66 a share, ever gets back to that point again.
Source Fool.com
