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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS | SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS The Company maintains share-based compensation plans under its shareholder-approved 2011 Plan. The purpose of the share-based compensation plans is to provide officers, employees, and non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company with additional incentive to further the success of the Company. Under the Plan, 381,920 shares of the common stock of the Company were reserved to be issued. At December 31, 2017, 82,277 shares were available to be issued. The 2011 Plan incentive awards may consist of grants of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, deferred stock units and performance shares. All employees of the Company and its present or future subsidiaries, and members of the Board of Directors of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, are eligible to participate in the 2011 Plan. The 2011 Plan allows for the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors to determine the type of incentive to be awarded, its term, manner of exercise, vesting of awards and restrictions on shares. Generally, awards are nonqualified under the IRC, unless the awards are deemed to be incentive awards to employees at the Compensation Committee’s discretion. The following table presents a summary of nonvested restricted shares activity for 2017.
The following table presents restricted shares compensation expense, with tax benefit information, and fair value of shares vested for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016, and 2015.
At December 31, 2017 and 2016, unrecognized compensation expense related to the share awards totaled $2,035,000, and $2,169,000. The unrecognized compensation expense at December 31, 2017 is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.8 years. The following table presents a summary of outstanding stock options activity for 2017.
The exercise price of each option equals the market price of the Company’s stock on the grant date. An option’s maximum term is ten years. All options are fully vested upon issuance. The following table presents information pertaining to options outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2017.
Outstanding and exercisable options had an intrinsic value of $127,000 at December 31, 2017 and $39,000 at December 31, 2016. The Company maintains an employee stock purchase plan to provide employees of the Company an opportunity to purchase Company common stock. Eligible employees may purchase shares in an amount that does not exceed 10% of their annual salary at the lower of 95% of the fair market value of the shares on the semi-annual offering date, or related purchase date. The Company reserved 350,000 shares of its common stock to be issued under the employee stock purchase plan. At December 31, 2017, 179,372 shares were available to be issued. The following table presents information for the employee stock purchase plan for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
The Company issues new shares or treasury shares, depending on market conditions, in its share-based compensation plans. |