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The NCEO's most recent survey of corporate governance practices in ESOP companies shows the current status of boards of directors, ESOP trustees, and governance policies for ESOP companies.

The 2018 administration of the General Social Survey (GSS), a long-standing survey of the nation's work force, included a segment on employee ownership.

A new NCEO analysis of Form 5500 filings shows that in 2006, company stock represented about $300 billion in 401(k) plan assets in about 2,900 companies. Of this, $133 billion was in the 748 401(k) plans that had a majority of their assets in company stock.

The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership released data showing the increase in employment at employee-owned companies in Europe.

The NCEO has published its annual update of employee ownership in large public companies, the most detailed analysis of its kind. Of the companies included in the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 index of the largest U.S.

The NCEO has developed a list that provides a breakdown of employee ownership in the S&P 900 index of large- and mid-cap publicly traded companies for the Heron Foundation.

A new survey from WestWard Pay Strategies, a San Francisco-based compensation consultant, provides data on overhang, "run rate," and earnings per share impacts of stock options on high tech companies.

Among the ESOP companies she studied through 30 executive interviews and survey research, researcher Suzanne Cromlish of Case Western Reserve University found that the ESOP companies tended to accelerate their acquisition activity following 2011.

A new analysis by the NCEO shows that of the ESOPs set up in the 1970s, about 20% still survive today, while about 40% of those set up in the 1980s do, and more than half of the ESOPs established in the 1990s still exist.

The NCEO's most recent estimates for the number of ESOP and ESOP-like plans suggest there were 10,800 ESOP companies at the end of 2007, which is slightly lower than our earlier estimate for 2007 (11,000 companies).