Employee Stock Ownership Plan

6 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Employee Stock Ownership Plan [Abstract]

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Note 8. Employee Stock Ownership Plan

The Company sponsors a leveraged employee stock ownership plan (the "ESOP") that covers all nonunion employees who work 1,000 or more hours per year and are employed on June 30. The Company makes annual contributions to the ESOP equal to the ESOP's debt service less dividends on unallocated shares received by the ESOP. All dividends on unallocated shares received by the ESOP are used to pay debt service. Dividends on allocated ESOP shares are recorded as a reduction of retained earnings. As the debt is repaid, shares are released and allocated to active employees, based on the proportion of debt service paid in the year. The Company accounts for its ESOP in accordance with FASB ASC 718-40. Accordingly, the shares purchased by the ESOP are reported as Unearned ESOP shares in the balance sheets and the statements of changes in stockholders’ equity. As shares are released or committed-to-be-released, the Company reports compensation expense equal to the current average market price of the shares, and the shares become outstanding for earnings-per-share (EPS) computations. ESOP compensation expense was $94,175 and $76,549 for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. ESOP compensation expense was $183,364 and $155,477 for the six-month periods ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

The ESOP shares as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:

	December 31, 2023		December 31, 2022
Allocated shares		440,801		465,248
Committed-to-be-released shares		11,080		11,244
Unreleased shares		222,565		245,049
Total shares held by the ESOP		674,446		721,541
Fair value of unreleased shares	$	4,161,966	$	3,479,696

The Company may at times be required to repurchase shares at the ESOP participants’ request at the shares’ fair market value. During the three and six months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not repurchase shares previously held by the ESOP.

The ESOP allows for eligible participants to take whole share distributions from the Plan on specific dates in accordance with the provision of the Plan. Share distributions from the ESOP during the six months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 totaled 44,157 and 30,843 shares, respectively.