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You just sell the stock every year and switch it to S&P 500 if you're that worried...

• d23 5y ago
  If the stock price for the company goes down, the value of your unvested stock goes with it.
  • wikibob 5y ago
    This is a common misconception. If the value of your invested RSUs go up: fantastic now you make more. I’d the value of the invested RSUs go down: no problem, you evaluate if you want to wait to see if they go up, or if you want to go into the market and take a new job. It’s nearly all upside for the employee (in a hot market).
    • d23 5y ago
      It's not a "misconception." I may not want to go find a new job in 6 months because the stock tanked. There's opportunity cost if nothing else. While that company's stock is tanking, I could instead be at one that's growing at even a modest rate.
  • runako 5y ago
    While true, frequently cash-rich companies account for this. There are a lot of levers CFOs of profitable companies have to prevent people from leaving when the stock drops: issuing more shares, cash bonuses, etc. Facebook and Apple have more than enough cash to retain their talent in the event their stocks get cheap.
    • freyir 5y ago
      Still, they’re likely to readjust your comp back up to baseline. You face the opportunity cost of not working for a company whose stock will rise fast, making it worth much more in years 2-3+ than it was initially priced at. None of us have a crystal ball though, so it’s all speculation.