Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Post-Vesting Holding Period

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Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Number Of Tranche, Vested

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Amount of cost to be recognized for nonvested award under share-based payment arrangement. Excludes share and unit options.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Stock-Based Compensation Expense and Employee Benefit Plans - Executive Awards Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2020 tranche	Nov. 30, 2019 tranche	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility rate			0.00%	71.00%
Risk free interest rate			0.00%	0.60%
Expected dividend yield			0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Performance Stock Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation vesting period			5 years
Stock-based compensation post-vesting holding period			2 years
Expected volatility rate			71.20%
Risk free interest rate			1.60%
Expected dividend yield			0.00%
Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unamortized compensation expense \| $			$ 24.0
2019 Executive Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based payment arrangement, number of tranche		3
2020 Executive Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based payment arrangement, number of tranche	3