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title: Setting up Stock valuations
slug: setting-up-stock-valuations
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createdAt: 2022-04-22T16:46:49.000Z
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In the **Stock valuations** tab, you can create stock options for your employees through option grants, strike prices, and fundraising events in your ChartHop organization.
You can use Stock valuations to manage and configure your stock options for your organization's employees, determine the strike price for option grants, and establish amounts to be allocated for fundraising events.
To create a stock valuation:
1. From the left sidebar, select **Admin**.
2. From the sub-menu, select **Financial**.
3. Scroll down to the **Stock Valuations** section.
4. In the **Date** field, enter the date when the stock valuation will be established.
5. In the **Type** field, use the dropdown to select a stock value type:
- **Grant** **Price: **This should be the price used to determine employee compensation value -- the company's "best value" (as described by Fred Wilson in this [classic blog post](https://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much)). When determining the present value of a stock option grant, grant price will be calculated against strike price.
- **Common** **FMV: **Fair Market Valuation performed, usually by an outside firm, to value the company's common stock for safe harbor under IRS 409A. These prices are used as the strike price for stock option grants
- **Preferred** **Fundraise: **This is the price most recently paid by investors for preferred stock, entered when the company raises outside investment.
6. In the **Price/Share** field, enter the value of your price per share.
7. In the **Total shares fully diluted **field, enter the value of your organizations total number of shares.
8. Select **+ Add valuation** to create the stock valuation.
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