Grant stock options to seven management employees
Delivered by the deadline
Under re-examination This entry has been challenged and is being re-checked against the sources.
- Announced
- 26 Jan 2021
- Due
- 31 Mar 2021
- Delivered
- 24 Jan 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Rocky Brands agreed to grant stock options to the seven management employees, totaling options to purchase 25,000 shares, on the date of closing of the transaction.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company confirmed in its 2021 10-K filing that it adopted an inducement plan and granted the 25,000 stock options to the seven key employees on January 24, 2021.
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A Rocky Brands, Inc. 10-K filed 2022-03-15
“On January 24, 2021, we adopted the 2021 Inducement Option Plan (the "2021 Plan") pursuant to which 25,000 non-qualified stock options were granted to seven key employees acquired with the Acquisition.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -5.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (14 Mar 2022 to 17 Mar 2022). What this measures
Checked 25 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Grant
- Deliverable
- stock options
- Target
- 25,000 shares
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: closing of the transaction
- Depends on
- Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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