Flora Growth (NASDAQ:FLGC) stock is on the rise Thursday after the cannabis company announced Restricted Stock Awards (RSAs) for several of its leaders.
The company distributed 726,241 RSAs to its leaders as part of its 2022 Equity Compensation Plan. The company’s leaders have to wait until the shares have vested before they can make use of them.
Let’s get into those RSAs granted in detail below!
FLGC Stock: RSAs Granted to Company Leaders
- Clifford Starke, director and CEO of Flora Growth, was granted 327,851 RSAs that vested on Nov. 15, 2023.
- Dany Vaiman, the company’s chief financial officer, was granted 149,024 RSAs that will vest on Jan. 1, 2024.
- Kevin Taylor, chairman of the Board of Directors, was granted 124,186 RSAs that will also vest on Jan. 1, 2024.
- Edward Woo, a director on the Board, was granted 74,512 RSAs set to vest on Jan. 1, 2024.
- Thomas Solomon, another director on the Board, was granted 35,766 RSAs that vested on Nov. 15, 2023.
With today’s news comes some 87,000 shares of FLGC stock changing hands. That’s closing in on its daily average trading volume of about 167,000 shares.
FLGC stock is up 6.9% as of Thursday morning but was down 79% year-to-date when markets closed yesterday.
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