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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
On May 21, 2024, the Company authorized an additional 8,500,000 shares to be available under the Amended and Restated 2016 LTIP ("2016 LTIP"). Further, on May 8, 2025, the Company's stockholders approved an amendment to the 2016 LTIP that increased the number of shares available for issuance by an additional 4,900,000 shares. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 1.5 million shares of our common stock remain available for future issuance under the 2016 LTIP.
Stock-based compensation expense recognized for restricted stock units and stock options granted to employees and non-employees is included in the consolidated statements of operations, net of adjustments. There were no income tax benefits recognized on the stock-based compensation expense for these periods.
Table 11.1: Details of Stock Compensation Expense by Category
For the Year Ended December 31,
20252024
(in thousands)
Cost of sales - services$652 $828 
Research and development1,238 (121)
General and administrative (1)
28,260 20,704 
Total $30,150 $21,411 
(1) No stock-based compensation expense related to stock options was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2025, while $0.1 million was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Restricted Stock
Table 11.2: Restricted Stock Unit Activity
Service-Based RSUPerformance-Based RSUTotalWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested outstanding units as of December 31, 20241,952,103 10,683,230 12,635,333 $3.52 
Granted1,237,265 3,381,163 4,618,428 3.48 
Vested(895,616)(3,047,890)(3,943,506)3.52 
Forfeited, cancelled, or expired(110,916)(154,649)(265,565)3.43 
Unvested outstanding units as of December 31, 20252,182,836 10,861,854 13,044,690 $3.49 
On February 20, 2025, the Company modified certain previously granted PSUs with financial performance targets for fiscal year 2025. The modification eliminated one of the financial performance targets. As a result, an incremental stock-based compensation expense of $2.0 million is recognized over the remaining vesting period.
On May 14, 2025, the Company granted PSUs to a certain employee that could settle in up to (i) 65,000 shares of its common stock that will vest only if the Company achieves a certain operational milestone prior to January 1, 2027; and (ii) 50,000 shares of its common stock and will vest only if the Company achieves certain financial performance targets for fiscal year 2025.
On June 11, 2025, the Company granted PSUs containing stock price market conditions to certain employees that could settle in up to 1,060,000 shares of its common stock. These PSUs will vest, in whole or in part, only if the Company's closing common stock price remains at or above certain specified stock prices for 50 consecutive days prior to January 1, 2027.
For the awards subject to stock price market conditions, the Monte Carlo approach uses a class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to compute their results. This approach allows the calculation of the value of such PSUs based on a large number of possible stock price path scenarios. The risk-free rate is based on a zero-coupon yield from the Treasury Constant Maturities yield curve at the time of grant over the performance period.
Table 11.3: PSUs with Stock Price Market Condition Fair Value and Assumptions
For the Year Ended December 31,
20252024
(in thousands)
Performance period (in years)
1.56
2.59
Expected volatility
97.5%
83.9%
Risk-free rate
3.9%
4.70%
Expected derived service period (in years)
0.80 - 0.94
0.63 - 1.31
Grant date fair value
$1.17 - $1.51
$2.62 - $3.75
On June 11, 2025, the Company also granted to certain executives PSUs that were market conditions dependent on total shareholder return ("TSR"), that could settle in up to 2,206,163 shares of its common stock. The vesting criteria for these awards are based on the Company's TSR performance relative to the TSR performance of the Company's compensation peer group as of the grant date over the three-year performance period, June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2028, and conditioned upon neutral or positive free cash flow (i.e. cash flows from operating activities less capital expenditure) at the end of each fiscal year 2025, 2026, and 2027. The final payout of these PSUs will vary between 0% to 200% of the target number of PSUs granted, depending on the TSR performance and meeting the free cash flow requirements.
For the awards subject to TSR market conditions, the Monte Carlo simulation simulates a distribution of stock prices for the Company and its current compensation peer group throughout the remaining performance period based on certain assumptions of stock price performance. Monte Carlo valuations of relative TSR PSUs depend on two sets of prices: realized performance and simulated performance. Our key assumptions include a performance period of 2.97 years, an expected volatility of 114.7%, and a risk-free rate of 3.8%. The fair value for these relative TSR market condition PSUs at the grant date was $4.82.
As of December 31, 2025, and 2024, the intrinsic value of the RSUs and PSUs outstanding, exercisable, and vested or expected to vest was $66.5 million and $43.2 million, respectively. There was approximately $8.7 million of total compensation costs related to stock-based awards not yet recognized as of December 31, 2025, which is expected to be recognized on a straight-line basis over a weighted-average remaining vesting period of 0.2 years.
Stock Options
Table 11.4: Stock Option Activity
Stock Options OutstandingWeighted-Average Exercise PriceWeighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term
(in years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding option balance as of December 31, 2024287,000 $1.80 8.4$464,940 
Granted— — 
Exercised(60,000)1.80 
Forfeited, cancelled, or expired— — 
Outstanding option balance as of December 31, 2025227,000 $1.80 7.4$749,100 
Exercisable stock option as of December 31, 2025227,000 $1.80 7.4$749,100 
The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to calculate the estimated fair value of stock options on the date of grant. Option awards are generally granted with an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company's stock at the date of grant. The following weighted-average assumptions are used in the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate the fair value of stock option awards, as granted.
Expected term of the option – For options granted to employees and directors, the Company estimates the term over which option holders are expected to hold their stock option by using the "simplified method" in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 107, Share-Based Payments, and SAB No. 110, Simplified Method for Plain Vanilla Share Options, to calculate the expected term of stock options determined to be "plain vanilla." The Company's stock option exercise history does not provide a reasonable basis to compute the expected term for stock options. Under this approach, the expected term is presumed to be a midpoint between the vesting date and the contractual end of the stock option grant. For options granted to non-employees, the Company elected to use the contractual term as the expected term.
Risk-free interest rate – Based on the daily yield curve rates for U.S. Treasury obligations with terms that approximate the expected term of the stock options.
Expected volatility – Due to the absence of the Company's historical price volatility for the expected contractual term of the stock options, the Company utilized the historical price volatility of a peer group.
Expected dividend yield – The Company has not declared dividends, nor does it expect to in the foreseeable future. Therefore, a zero value was assumed for the expected dividend yield.
Our key assumptions used to calculate the fair value of the stock options granted in fiscal year 2023 include an expected term ranging from 5.5 to 10 years, expected volatility between 30.7% - 35.1%, and a risk-free rate of 3.5%. The weighted-average fair value of the underlying stock options at the grant date was $1.06. There were no new stock options granted in fiscal years 2025, and 2024.
The aggregate intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying stock option awards and the quoted closing price of the Company's common stock as of December 31, 2025.
The fair value of the stock options is expensed on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of one year, including the stock options granted to directors, as the next annual stockholders meeting is expected to occur at the same approximate time each year.
As of December 31, 2025, there were no unrecognized compensation costs related to non-vested stock options.