Stock-Based Compensation (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

Stock-based Compensation Expense and Tax Benefit


	Thirteen Weeks Ended				Twenty-Six Weeks Ended
	July 31, 2011		August 1, 2010		July 31, 2011		August 1, 2010
Stock options expense	$	2,788	$	2,135	$	5,717	$	4,432
Restricted stock expense		1,477		1,529		2,594		3,054
Performance share unit expense		3,176		1,947		5,316		3,515

Stock-based compensation cost — equity awards		7,441		5,611		13,627		11,001
Management equity unit expense		2,113		790		4,025		1,972

Total stock-based compensation expense	$	9,554	$	6,401	$	17,652	$	12,973

Tax benefit	$	3,436	$	2,169	$	6,109	$	4,476

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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