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VanEck Highlights Shareholder Dilution in Metaplanet Executive Compensation Review
A VanEck analysis shows that Metaplanet's executive option structure absorbed roughly a fifth of the company's Bitcoin acquisitions.
Investment firm VanEck rated Tokyo-listed Metaplanet "Bad" across all four of its executive compensation metrics, singling out the firm among the ten largest corporate digital asset treasuries. The assessment followed research into how the company's option pool diluted equity holders as it acquired 43,000 Bitcoin.
Metaplanet financed its digital asset strategy by issuing new shares, debt, and preferred stock. However, a provision established during a February 2023 restructuring automatically expanded the executive option pool by 20% of every newly issued share. As the total share count rose from 153.9 million to about 1.35 billion, the option pool grew proportionally from 46 million to 319.5 million shares.
VanEck estimated that this automated mechanism allowed management dilution to absorb approximately 20% of the Bitcoin purchased, passing only 80% through to regular shareholders. Despite recent reductions to the executive option pool by the board, the firm maintained its critical assessment.
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