Stock-based Compensation - Fair Value Valuation Assumptions- ISO (Details) - 2014 Long Term Incentive Plan	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015 $ / shares
2015 10-Year Option
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant date	Aug. 12, 2015
Expiration date	Aug. 12, 2025
Grant date stock price (in dollars per share)	$ 13.06
Expected volatility	35.16%
Risk-free rate (annualized)	2.19%
Dividend yield (annualized)	0.00%
2014 4.58-Year Option
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant date	Nov. 14, 2014
Expiration date	Jun. 14, 2019
Grant date stock price (in dollars per share)	$ 19.51
Expected volatility	28.85%
Risk-free rate (annualized)	1.50%
Dividend yield (annualized)	0.00%
2014 10-Year Option
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Grant date	Nov. 14, 2014
Expiration date	Nov. 14, 2024
Grant date stock price (in dollars per share)	$ 19.51
Expected volatility	35.00%
Risk-free rate (annualized)	2.38%
Dividend yield (annualized)	0.00%

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Date the equity-based award expires, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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