BiyaPay Analyst: Musk-Style Incentives Reappear, GameStop Announces Trillion-Dollar CEO Long-Term Incentive Plan
GameStop (GME) board announced an aggressive long-term CEO incentive plan: granting Ryan Cohen approximately 172 million stock options with an exercise price of $20.66, no fixed salary, and vesting only when the company's market capitalization and performance targets are met. The reward threshold starts at a market cap of $20 billion and cumulative EBITDA of $2 billion. To fully vest, the market cap must reach $100 billion and cumulative EBITDA must hit $10 billion. Following the announcement, GME rose nearly 5% in early trading.
BiyaPay analysts believe that this "Musk-style" incentive strongly ties management compensation to long-term shareholder returns, reflecting the U.S. stock market's tolerance for high-risk, high-reward transformation paths, which may also amplify stock price volatility. For users focused on U.S. stock hotspots and event-driven opportunities, BiyaPay supports direct trading of U.S. stocks and Hong Kong stock futures and spot contracts using USDT, allowing flexible participation in high-volatility assets like GME within the same account to capture structural trading opportunities.