9. EQUITY-BASED INCENTIVE AWARDS

Omnibus Plan

The Company has an Omnibus Incentive Plan (“the Omnibus Plan”) which provides for equity incentives to employees. The Omnibus Plan was designed with the intent of encouraging employees to acquire a vested interest in the growth and performance of the Company. The Omnibus Plan permits the issuance of up to 150,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in the form of stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, performance share awards as well as awards such as stock appreciation rights, performance units, performance shares, bonus shares, and dividend share awards payable in the form of common stock or cash. The number of shares issuable under the Omnibus Plan is subject to customary adjustments in the event of stock splits, stock dividends, and certain other distributions on the Company’s common stock. At March 2014, awards with respect to a total of 147,700 shares, net of forfeitures, had been awarded pursuant to the Omnibus Plan and awards with respect to another 2,300 shares may be awarded under the plan.

Stock Options

The stock options issued by the Company expire ten years from the grant date and include graded vesting schedules ranging between three and five years. Stock options issued and outstanding at March 2014 are summarized as follows:

			Remaining			Exercisable
	Exercise Price	Number Outstanding	Weighted-Average Contractual Life	Weighted-Average Exercise Price		Number Exercisable	Weighted-Average Exercise Price
Fiscal 2007	$18.00	25,000	2.70 years	$	18.00	25,000	$	18.00
Fiscal 2010	$51.50	4,900	6.08 years	$	51.50	2,700	$	51.50
Fiscal 2012	$53.80 - $65.97	6,100	7.60 years	$	54.80	2,200	$	54.91
Fiscal 2013	$62.33	7,800	8.57 years	$	62.33	1,400	$	62.33
		43,800		$	34.77	31,300	$	25.47

Restricted Stock Units

At March 2014, nonvested restricted stock units awarded pursuant to the Company’s Omnibus Plan were as follows:

	Restricted Stock Units(1)	Restricted Stock Units(2)	Restricted Stock Units(3)
Date of award:	October 26, 2011	October 23, 2012	October 22, 2013
Original number of awards issued:	15,900	15,000	17,900
Service period:	36 months	36 months	36-60 months
Estimated fair value of award at grant date	$855,000	$935,000	$1,486,000
Awards outstanding at March 2014	5,300	10,000	17,900
Fair value of non-vested awards at March 2014:	$454,000	$856,000	$1,532,000

(1) 10,600 of the restricted stock units were vested as of March 2014. The remaining 5,300 restricted stock units will vest on October 25, 2014.

(2) 5,000 of the restricted stock units were vested as of March 2014. The remaining 10,000 restricted stock units will vest in equal amounts on October 23, 2014 and October 23, 2015.

(3) 14,000 restricted stock units will vest in equal amounts on October 22, 2014, October 22, 2015, and October 22, 2016. The remaining 3,900 restricted stock units will vest in equal amounts on October 22, 2014, October 22, 2015, October 22, 2016, October 22, 2017, and October 22, 2018.

There is no direct cost to the recipients of the restricted stock units, except for any applicable taxes. The recipients of the restricted stock units are entitled to the customary adjustments in the event of stock splits, stock dividends, and certain other distributions on the Company’s common stock. All cash dividends and/or distributions payable to restricted stock recipients will be held in escrow until all the conditions of vesting have been met.

The restricted stock units provide that the recipients can elect, at their option, to receive either common stock in the Company, or a cash settlement based upon the closing price of the Company’s shares, at the time of vesting. Based on these award provisions, the compensation expense recorded in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Unaudited Statement of Operations reflects the straight-line amortized fair value based on the period end closing price.

	Number of Shares		Weighted Average Fair Value
Nonvested restricted stock units at September 2013	29,600		$	81.89
Granted	17,900		83.03
Vested	(14,300	)	80.68
Expired	—		—
Nonvested restricted stock units at March 2014	33,200		$	85.60

All Equity-Based Awards (stock options and restricted stock units)

Net income before income taxes included compensation expense related to the amortization of all equity-based compensation awards of $0.4 million and $0.7 million for the three and six months ended March 2014, respectively, and $0.3 million and $0.7 million for the three and six months ended March 2013, respectively. Total unamortized compensation expense related to these awards at March 2014 was approximately $2.3 million.