Stevie Recently Received 1,000 Shares of Restricted Stock from Her

question 101

Multiple Choice

Stevie recently received 1,000 shares of restricted stock from her employer, Nicks Corporation, when the share price was $8 per share. Stevie's restricted shares vested three years later when the market price was $11. Stevie held the shares for a little more than a year and sold them when the market price was $16. Assuming Stevie made a section 83(b) election, what is the amount of Stevie's ordinary income with respect to the restricted stock?

• A)$0
• B)$5,000
• C)$8,000
• D)$11,000

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Mean

The average value obtained by adding all the data points in a set together and then dividing by the number of data points.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetric bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Z-score

An index quantifying the position of a value relative to the average value in a dataset, expressed as the amount of standard deviations away from this mean.

Percentile

A value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls, used to understand and interpret data distributions.