SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

The Company issues stock appreciation rights and restricted stock units, including those with service, performance and market vesting conditions. The Company recognized share-based compensation expense of $7.2 million and $14.1 million for the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015, respectively, and $6.1 million and $11.5 million for the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended August 2, 2014, respectively. The Company also recognized tax benefits related to share-based compensation of $2.5 million and $4.8 million for the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015, respectively, and $2.3 million and $4.3 million for the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended August 2, 2014, respectively.

Stock Options

The following table summarizes stock option activity for the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015:



	Number of Underlying Shares		Weighted-Average Exercise Price		Aggregate Intrinsic Value		Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life
Outstanding at January 31, 2015	328,100		$	64.64
Granted	—		—
Exercised	—		—
Forfeited or expired	(19,500	)	65.87
Outstanding at August 1, 2015	308,600		$	64.56	$	—	2.2
Stock options exercisable at August 1, 2015	308,600		$	64.56	$	—	2.2

The Company did not grant any stock options during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015 or August 2, 2014. No stock options were exercised during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015. The intrinsic value of stock options exercised was insignificant during the twenty-six weeks ended August 2, 2014.

As of August 1, 2015, there was no unrecognized compensation cost related to currently outstanding stock options.

Stock Appreciation Rights

The following table summarizes stock appreciation rights activity for the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015:



	Number of Underlying Shares		Weighted-Average Exercise Price		Aggregate Intrinsic Value		Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life
Outstanding at January 31, 2015	8,953,675		$	40.28
Granted	662,258		22.43
Exercised	—		—
Forfeited or expired	(78,225	)	43.31
Outstanding at August 1, 2015	9,537,708		$	39.02	$	—	2.6
Stock appreciation rights exercisable at August 1, 2015	8,345,009		$	40.32	$	—	1.7
Stock appreciation rights expected to become exercisable in the future as of August 1, 2015	1,044,928		$	29.92	$	—	9.1

The Company estimates the fair value of stock appreciation rights using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The weighted-average assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model for stock appreciation rights granted during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015 and August 2, 2014, were as follows:



	Executive Officers						All Other Associates
	August 1, 2015			August 2, 2014			August 1, 2015			August 2, 2014
Grant date market price	$	22.46		$	37.85		$	22.39		$	38.62
Exercise price	$	22.46		$	38.44		$	22.39		$	38.62
Fair value	$	9.11		$	14.04		$	7.99		$	13.58
Assumptions:
Price volatility	49		%	50		%	49		%	50		%
Expected term (years)	6.1			4.9			4.4			4.1
Risk-free interest rate	1.5		%	1.6		%	1.2		%	1.4		%
Dividend yield	1.7		%	2.0		%	1.7		%	1.9		%

Compensation expense for stock appreciation rights is recognized on a straight-line basis over the awards’ requisite service period, net of forfeitures. As of August 1, 2015, there was $10.2 million of total unrecognized compensation cost, net of estimated forfeitures, related to stock appreciation rights. The unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 18 months.

No stock appreciation rights were exercised during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015. The total intrinsic value of stock appreciation rights exercised during the twenty-six weeks ended August 2, 2014 was $1.5 million. The grant date fair value of stock appreciation rights that vested during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015 and August 2, 2014 was $4.2 million and $7.2 million, respectively.

Restricted Stock Units

The following table summarizes activity for restricted stock units for the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015:



	Service-based Restricted Stock Units				Performance-based Restricted Stock Units				Market-based Restricted Stock Units
	Number of Underlying Shares		Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value		Number of Underlying Shares		Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value		Number of Underlying Shares	Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 31, 2015	1,566,272		$	37.81	205,420		$	32.05	36,374	$	40.13
Granted ⁽¹⁾	966,618		20.70		113,331		20.10		113,337	19.04
Adjustments for performance achievement	—		—		(28,250	)	36.14		—	—
Vested	(394,804	)	42.82		(48,668	)	38.24		—	—
Forfeited	(110,900	)	36.29		(7,125	)	36.21		—	—
Unvested at August 1, 2015	2,027,186		$	28.77	234,708		$	24.38	149,711	$	24.16


⁽¹⁾	Includes 226,668 shares at 100% of their target vesting amount related to grants of restricted stock units with performance vesting conditions.

Fair value of both service-based and performance-based restricted stock units is calculated using the market price of the underlying Common Stock on the date of grant reduced for anticipated dividend payments on unvested shares. In determining fair value, the Company does not take into account performance-based vesting requirements. Performance-based vesting requirements are taken into account in determining the number of awards expected to vest. For market-based restricted stock units, fair value is calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation with the number of shares that ultimately vest dependent on the Company's total stockholder return measured against the total stockholder return of a select group of peer companies over a three-year period. For an award with performance-based or market-based vesting requirements, the number of shares that ultimately vest can vary from 0% to 200% of target depending on the level of achievement of performance criteria.

Service-based restricted stock units are expensed on a straight-line basis over the total requisite service period, net of forfeitures. Performance-based restricted stock units subject to graded vesting are expensed on an accelerated attribution basis, net of forfeitures. Market-based restricted stock units without graded vesting features are expensed on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, net of forfeitures.

As of August 1, 2015, there was $37.0 million, $2.2 million and $2.7 million of total unrecognized compensation cost, net of estimated forfeitures, related to service-based, performance-based and market-based restricted stock units, respectively. The unrecognized compensation cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 15 months, 14 months and 15 months for service-based, performance-based and market-based restricted stock units, respectively.

Additional information pertaining to restricted stock units for the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015 and August 2, 2014 follows:



(in thousands)	August 1, 2015		August 2, 2014
Service-based restricted stock units:
Total grant date fair value of awards granted	$	20,009	$	19,630
Total grant date fair value of awards vested	16,906		15,841

Performance-based restricted stock units:
Total grant date fair value of awards granted	$	2,278	$	4,470
Total grant date fair value of awards vested	1,861		515

Market-based restricted stock units:
Total grant date fair value of awards granted	$	2,158	$	3,576
Total grant date fair value of awards vested	—		—

The weighted-average assumptions used for market-based restricted stock units used in the Monte Carlo simulation during the twenty-six weeks ended August 1, 2015 and August 2, 2014 were as follows:



	August 1, 2015			August 2, 2014
Grant date market price	$	22.46		$	38.50
Fair value	$	19.04		$	46.86
Assumptions:
Price volatility	45		%	50		%
Expected term (years)	2.8			2.8
Risk-free interest rate	0.9		%	0.8		%
Dividend yield	3.5		%	2.1		%
Average volatility of peer companies	34.0		%	37.3		%
Average correlation coefficient of peer companies	0.3288			0.3786