ESPP and Other Broad-Based Equity Plan List

In 2009, through a painstaking process of checking individual company Web sites and corporate filings, the NCEO has compiled a list of the largest 1,500 U.S. companies, plus companies that we had previously identified as possibly having plans from prior research and press clippings, that have broad-based equity plans. Of the 1,821 companies that we researched, we could confirm that 131 offer options to most or all employees, 22 offer other kinds of broad-based equity (of these, six offer options as well), and 498 have employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs). We suspect that some of the other companies on the list also have plans, but do not indicate that in their filings or in the careers section of their Web site.