Stock-Based Compensation

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

On the Effective Date, the Board adopted the Unit Corporation Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) to incentivize employees, officers, directors and other service providers of the company and its affiliates. The LTIP provides for the grant, from time to time, at the discretion of the Board or a committee thereof, of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock awards, dividend equivalents, other stock-based awards, cash awards, performance awards, substitute awards or any combination of the foregoing. Subject to adjustment in the event of certain transactions or changes of capitalization in accordance with the LTIP, 903,226 shares of new common stock of the reorganized company (New Common Stock) have been reserved for issuance pursuant to awards under the LTIP. New Common Stock subject to an award that expires or is canceled, forfeited, exchanged, settled in cash, or otherwise terminated without delivery of shares and shares withheld to pay the exercise price of, or to satisfy the withholding obligations with respect to, an award will again be available for delivery pursuant to other awards under the LTIP. The LTIP will be administered by the Board or a committee thereof.

No stock options or restricted stock units were granted during the three or six months ended June 30, 2020, or during the three months ended March 31, 2021. On April 27, 2021, 109,008 aggregate restricted stock units were granted to the members of the Board pursuant to the LTIP with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $12.90 per unit. The fair value of these grants is measured based on the closing stock price on grant date and compensation expense is being recognized over a thirteen month vesting period in general and administrative on the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.

Also on the Effective Date, the company's equity-based awards outstanding immediately before the Effective Date were cancelled. The cancellation of the awards resulted in an acceleration of unrecorded stock compensation expense during the Predecessor Period. Under the Plan, the company issued Warrants to holders of those equity-based awards that were outstanding immediately before the Effective Date who did not opt out of releases under the Plan.

For restricted stock awards and stock options, we had:


	Successor		Predecessor		Successor		Predecessor
	Three Months Ended June 30, 2021		Three Months Ended June 30, 2020		Six Months Ended June 30, 2021		Six Months Ended June 30, 2020
	(In thousands)
Recognized stock compensation expense	$	216	$	1,567	$	216	$	4,055

Tax benefit on stock-based compensation	$	53	$	392	$	53	$	1,014