Stock options and restricted stock |
3 Months Ended |
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| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] | |
| Stock options and restricted stock |
Stock options and restricted stock
During the first three months of 2019 and 2018, no stock options were exercised by officers or employees of the Company. Stock compensation expense for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018 was $615,739 and $192,201, respectively.
In 2016, the Compensation & Long-Term Incentive Committee (the "Committee") of the Company's Board of Directors granted performance restricted stock awards (“2016 Performance Stock Award”) to officers and certain key management-level employees. The 2016 Performance Stock Award vested three years from the grant date based on continuous service, with the number of shares earned (0% to 150% of the target award) depending on the extent to which the Company achieves certain financial performance targets measured over the period from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018. On February 8, 2019, the Committee approved the vesting of the 2016 Performance Stock Award for a total of 46,477 restricted shares at a grant date market price of $8.05.
On February 8, 2019, the Committee approved grants under the Company's 2015 Stock Awards Plan to certain management employees of the Company where 44,949 shares with a market price of $15.72 per share were granted under the Plan. These stock awards vest in either 20 percent or 33 percent increments annually, beginning one year after the date of grant. In order for the awards to vest, the employee must be in the continuous employment of the Company since the date of the award. Any portion of an award that has not vested is forfeited upon termination of employment. The Company may terminate any portion of the award that has not vested upon an employee's failure to comply with all conditions of the award or the 2015 Stock Awards Plan. An employee is not entitled to any voting rights with respect to any shares not yet vested, and the shares are not transferable.
The diluted earnings per share calculations exclude the effect of potentially dilutive shares when the inclusion of those shares in the calculation would have an anti-dilutive effect. For the three-month period ended March 31, 2019 there is no difference in the number of shares used to calculate basic and diluted shares outstanding because their effect would have been anti-dilutive due to the Company reporting a net loss. For the three-month period ended March 31, 2018, the Company had weighted average shares of common stock, in the form of stock grants and options of 117,879 which were not included in the diluted earnings per share calculation as their effect was anti-dilutive.
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