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Shareholders’ Equity and Stock Incentive Plans
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Shareholders’ Equity and Stock Incentive Plans Shareholders’ Equity and Stock Incentive Plans
Share Repurchase Program
On July 27, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors increased its share repurchase program to $100 million. Share repurchases may be made from time to time in open market transactions, block trades or in private transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws and regulations and other legal requirements, including compliance with the Company’s finance agreements. There is no minimum number of shares that the Company is required to repurchase and the repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice. The Company did not repurchase any of its shares during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had $90.9 million of remaining share repurchase availability under its July 27, 2023 authorization.
Dividends
On February 27, 2024, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a recurring quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 per share of the Company’s common stock, the first of which was paid on April 4, 2024 to shareholders of record as of March 18, 2024 in the amount of $7.2 million in the aggregate.
Stock Options
The following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity:
Stock Options
SharesWeighted-Average Exercise Price
Outstanding at January 1, 20241,911,354 $9.19 
Granted— $— 
Exercised(13,000)$10.51 
Cancelled— $— 
Expired— $— 
Outstanding at March 31, 20241,898,354 $9.18 
Exercisable at March 31, 20241,898,354 $9.18 
There was no share-based compensation expense related to stock options for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. The Company did not have any remaining unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to stock options as of March 31, 2024 and 2023.
Restricted Stock Units
The following table summarizes the Company’s activity related to RSUs and PSUs:
RSUsPSUs
SharesWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair ValueShares Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Outstanding at January 1, 2024428,762 $34.09 471,935 
(1)
$36.40 
Granted (2)
202,826 $34.22 131,906 $34.06 
Vested(170,783)$37.40 (272,362)
(3)
$29.00 
Cancelled— $— (37,101)
(4)
$41.92 
Outstanding at March 31, 2024460,805 $32.95 294,378 $41.33 
(1)    Includes PSUs granted in March 2021 (“2021 PSU Awards”) at 200% of the target, PSUs granted in March 2022 at 89.6% of the target and PSUs granted in March 2023 (“2023 PSU Awards”) at 100% of the target.
(2)    The number of shares for the PSUs listed as granted represents the “target” number of PSUs granted to each recipient eligible to vest if the Company meets its “target” performance goals for the applicable period. The actual number of PSUs eligible to vest for those PSUs will vary depending on whether or not the Company meets or exceeds the applicable threshold, target, or maximum performance goals for the PSUs, with 200% of the “target” number of PSUs eligible to vest at “maximum” performance levels.
(3)    Represents 2021 PSU Awards that vested in March 2024 at 200% of the target PSUs.
(4)    The Company’s financial results for the applicable performance goals were certified during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 69.3% of the target 2023 PSU Awards were deemed “earned.” This resulted in the reduction of the PSUs granted in March 2023 to the number of PSUs eligible to vest from 120,825 to 83,724.
Share-based compensation expense related to RSUs was $1.8 million for each of the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. Share-based compensation expense related to PSUs was $1.2 million and $1.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
As of March 31, 2024, there was $12.4 million and $7.9 million of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to RSUs and PSUs, respectively, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.7 years and 2.2 years for RSUs and PSUs, respectively. As of March 31, 2023, there was $12.2 million and $9.7 million of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to RSUs and PSUs, respectively, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.8 years and 1.6 years for RSUs and PSUs, respectively.
As of March 31, 2024, a total of 4,348,412 shares of the Company’s common stock remained available for grants of awards under the Golden Entertainment, Inc. 2015 Incentive Award Plan, which includes the annual increase in the number of shares available for grant on January 1, 2024 of 1,146,766 shares.