SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

NOTE 5.

SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION:

On April 20, 2015, our Board of Directors and the holder of a majority of our outstanding shares of common stock approved the adoption of our 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the "Plan") The Plan allows for the issuance of up to 2,000,000 shares of our common stock for award grants. The Plan provides equity-based compensation through the grant of cash-based awards, nonqualified stock options, incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units and other stock-based awards. We believe that an adequate reserve of shares available for issuance under the Plan is necessary to enable us to attract, motivate and retain key employees and directors and to provide an additional incentive for such individuals through stock ownership and other rights that promote and recognize the financial success and growth of our Company. During the three months ended March 31, 2017, we granted 60,000 options to employees. As of March 31, 2017, aggregate grants under the Plan total to 1,614,898 shares of our common stock, of which 1,024,029 were granted as options, 590,869 were granted as restricted stock units. Share based compensation expense for the period ended March 31, 2017 was $502,254.

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The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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