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You also could have day traded the stock over the last 24 months and lost a lot more. Your point makes no sense. You compare a guaranteed RoR to hypothetical day trading results over 2 years.
Also, selling immediately is not speculating. It’s making a predetermined plan to instantly make 17.6% on income withheld/tied up over the preceding 6 months. Speculating is betting the stock will go up or down. Immediately flipping the stock doing the CSPP prevents any fluctuation in share price affecting the value of your money. That’s quite the opposite of speculating. You can make an argument that by selling you are betting the stock will go down, but the whole point is you are taking an approach with basically zero risk for a predetermined profit of 17.6%.
Can you please ask your broker wife to take my money out of circulation for a few months and give me a guaranteed 17.6% RoR? Guarantee you she won’t do it. Neither will her major financial institution. Curious, what investments does her major financial institution offer that have a guaranteed RoR of even 1/4 or even 1/10th of that? I don’t know of anywhere else you can get a guaranteed RoR close to that. If I could tie up all my income for 6 months at a time and make it 17.6% higher I would. If you or your wife can show me a better (guaranteed) investment vehicle...take my money.
Also, selling immediately is not speculating. It’s making a predetermined plan to instantly make 17.6% on income withheld/tied up over the preceding 6 months. Speculating is betting the stock will go up or down. Immediately flipping the stock doing the CSPP prevents any fluctuation in share price affecting the value of your money. That’s quite the opposite of speculating. You can make an argument that by selling you are betting the stock will go down, but the whole point is you are taking an approach with basically zero risk for a predetermined profit of 17.6%.
Can you please ask your broker wife to take my money out of circulation for a few months and give me a guaranteed 17.6% RoR? Guarantee you she won’t do it. Neither will her major financial institution. Curious, what investments does her major financial institution offer that have a guaranteed RoR of even 1/4 or even 1/10th of that? I don’t know of anywhere else you can get a guaranteed RoR close to that. If I could tie up all my income for 6 months at a time and make it 17.6% higher I would. If you or your wife can show me a better (guaranteed) investment vehicle...take my money.
It’s not the deal it appears to be. Or maybe it is and the average pilot is just smarter than a billion dollar financial institution and its client.
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#7322
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Your point makes no sense to me. You have no guaranteed ROR on B6 stock because your model does not account for risk. The risk that you’ve bet on a single a single stock will hold its value (however short the window is between buying and selling). A window that Fidelity can tap the brakes and slow down. What if we plant an A320 and kill all 150 pax on the day you sell it and it goes down 30%? What if there’s a BK declaration? What if trading is halted? Or delayed?You’re talking gains but you’ve never mentioned loss. We can argue it all day long and we’re never going see it each other’s way. You think my philosophy is foolish and I think the same of yours. I also think dabbling in the stock of your primary income source is dubious. Exactly what’s your average profit in dollars ? Couple of grand? If you were so confident in the 15% (17 according to you) why not go all in with 50% of your salary? Perhaps you do.... now that’s literally putting your money where your mouth is. After all, guaranteed right?
It’s not the deal it appears to be. Or maybe it is and the average pilot is just smarter than a billion dollar financial institution and its client.
It’s not the deal it appears to be. Or maybe it is and the average pilot is just smarter than a billion dollar financial institution and its client.
They are banking on some percentage of people keeping the stock. Then they benefit 3 ways.
1. The interest earned during the 6 months they get to keep everyone's money.
2. The slightly inflated stock price due to increased investment. Yes they issue it at a discount, and yes they are diluting it, but if you keep your money in the stock, the market cap will go up by however much you have invested. Remember out of 100 shares they issue, only 15 are "free". The rest are all paid for by you and thus benefit anyone being paid in options.
3. You feel like an "owner". Even though your fraction of ownership is microscopic, you may feel OK making less in compensation because you want "your" company to do well. Yes people are that stupid.
There is no escaping #1, but its effect very small. Perhaps 3% over 6 months. If you sell immediately upon receipt you can escape #2 and #3.
Actual return is probably around 12%. Still not bad for a guaranteed return. Just make sure you sell it.
#7323
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Your point makes no sense to me. You have no guaranteed ROR on B6 stock because your model does not account for risk. The risk that you’ve bet on a single a single stock will hold its value (however short the window is between buying and selling). A window that Fidelity can tap the brakes and slow down. What if we plant an A320 and kill all 150 pax on the day you sell it and it goes down 30%? What if there’s a BK declaration? What if trading is halted? Or delayed?You’re talking gains but you’ve never mentioned loss. We can argue it all day long and we’re never going see it each other’s way. You think my philosophy is foolish and I think the same of yours. I also think dabbling in the stock of your primary income source is dubious. Exactly what’s your average profit in dollars ? Couple of grand? If you were so confident in the 15% (17 according to you) why not go all in with 50% of your salary? Perhaps you do.... now that’s literally putting your money where your mouth is. After all, guaranteed right?
It’s not the deal it appears to be. Or maybe it is and the average pilot is just smarter than a billion dollar financial institution and its client.
It’s not the deal it appears to be. Or maybe it is and the average pilot is just smarter than a billion dollar financial institution and its client.
And since you don’t understand where 17.6% comes from, I’ll do a little basic 6th grade math to help you. You buy a share of AAPL stock for $100 a share. It goes down 15% in one day. It’s now worth $85 a share. You lost 15% of your investment, you freak, and you sell your share of AAPL stock to me for $85. The share price goes back up to $100 the next day. I then sell it. You lost $15/share, I gained $15/share. You lost 15% (15/100). But $15 on my $85 investment is 15/85, or 17.647%. So I made 17.6% on my investment while you lost 15%. The same is true with the CSPP. If JBLU is trading at $20 at the close of the window, I get it at $17 a share. Assume I have 100 shares of JBLU at a purchase price of $17/share, or $1700 worth, and I turn around and immediately sell it for what it’s worth at $20/share, or $2000, I just made $300 on that $1700 purchase, or 17.6%, instantly. There’s no risk. The money to purchase those shares was tied up for a few months, so I lost opportunity cost, but I made over 17% on that money in a few months. I’ll take a guaranteed 17% any day, and any investor or financial advisor who wouldn’t is insane. If I make $100k a year at JB, make max contributions at 10% and put $10k a year into this program, that’s an extra $1700, for doing nothing but executing a sell order once every 6 months, with no risk.
But yeah I mean if you don’t want $3-4K a year risk free for doing nothing, there’s no reason to do the program. I totally see your side lol.
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It’s taxed at the ordinary income tax rate if you sell it right away. It’s long term capital gains if you hold it for a year, and I think some amount of time from the beginning of the holding period. But since we are talking about selling it right away, it’s just ordinary income tax rate, which you’re likely paying on any short term investment and/or any additional income. It is a 0 min holding day program, and there are no penalties or tax implications for selling right away. Financially, it’s a program that gives you free money (taxed, just like any other income) for tying yours up for a little while, and if used conservatively (is selling right away) is risk free.
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It’s taxed at the ordinary income tax rate if you sell it right away. It’s long term capital gains if you hold it for a year, and I think some amount of time from the beginning of the holding period. But since we are talking about selling it right away, it’s just ordinary income tax rate, which you’re likely paying on any short term investment and/or any additional income. It is a 0 min holding day program, and there are no penalties or tax implications for selling right away. Financially, it’s a program that gives you free money (taxed, just like any other income) for tying yours up for a little while, and if used conservatively (is selling right away) is risk free.
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#7327
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It’s taxed at the ordinary income tax rate if you sell it right away. It’s long term capital gains if you hold it for a year, and I think some amount of time from the beginning of the holding period. But since we are talking about selling it right away, it’s just ordinary income tax rate, which you’re likely paying on any short term investment and/or any additional income. It is a 0 min holding day program, and there are no penalties or tax implications for selling right away. Financially, it’s a program that gives you free money (taxed, just like any other income) for tying yours up for a little while, and if used conservatively (is selling right away) is risk free.
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Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that the 15% discount is ALWAYS taxed as ordinary income, even after a year. The only element that is taxed at a long term cap gains is if the stock price went up from the time you got the shares AND you hold the shares over a year (then you still pay ordinary income tax on the 15% but long term cap gains on the price increase).
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FWIW my wife works for a tech company and we also max the ESOP for her as well. She gets that 15% discount and price at the time she signed up for it, and she buys shares at $26. Even now a few years later she still gets that $26 price and the stock is at $45. Pretty good deal.
For an airline I would definitely flip it same day though. Even then it's a good deal, especially at our income levels. Not a lot of work for no-risk couple thousand a year, look at it as your vacation money. The people who don't do ESOP for the most part do not understand the program, which is fine, their loss.
For an airline I would definitely flip it same day though. Even then it's a good deal, especially at our income levels. Not a lot of work for no-risk couple thousand a year, look at it as your vacation money. The people who don't do ESOP for the most part do not understand the program, which is fine, their loss.
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Can someone spell it out using a simple $100 example of one stock.
Say the price of stock was $100 and you get it at that discount of 15% so you got it at $85.
Instant same day, you put sell order through. Now you’ve “made” $15. What’s the tax burden now?
Just regular tax rate on the $15?
Fed, state, SS/med?
Say the price of stock was $100 and you get it at that discount of 15% so you got it at $85.
Instant same day, you put sell order through. Now you’ve “made” $15. What’s the tax burden now?
Just regular tax rate on the $15?
Fed, state, SS/med?
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