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Stock-Based Compensation Plans and Employee Benefits
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Postemployment Benefits [Abstract]  
Stock-Based Compensation Plans and Employee Benefits
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Stock-Based Compensation Plans and Employee Benefits

Stock-Based Compensation

The Company’s equity-based award plans provide for grants to Company employees and directors of incentive and non-qualified options to purchase common shares, rights to receive the appreciation in value of common shares, awards of common shares subject to restrictions on transfer, awards of common shares issuable in the future upon satisfaction of certain conditions and rights to purchase common shares and other awards based on common shares. Under the terms of the plans, 2.7 million common shares were available for grant of future awards as of December 31, 2024.

Adjustments to Equity Compensation Awards in Connection with the Reverse Stock Split and Spin-Off of Curbline Properties

Under the anti-dilution provisions of the Company’s equity incentive plan and the respective award agreement, anti-dilution adjustments were applied to all outstanding equity awards in connection with the reverse stock split consummated in August 2024 and the spin-off of Curbline Properties consummated in October 2024. The number of awards were adjusted so as to retain the same intrinsic value immediately after the reverse stock split and spin-off that the award had immediately prior to the spin-off.

Restricted Share Units

The Board of Directors approved grants to officers of the Company of restricted common share units (“RSUs”) of 160,735 in 2024, 258,222 in 2023 and 37,479 in 2022. These grants generally vest in equal annual amounts over a three- to five-year period. RSUs generally receive cash payments which are equivalent to the cash dividends paid on the Company’s common shares. These grants have a weighted-average fair value at the date of grant ranging from $8.95 to $17.43, which was equal to the market value of the Company’s common shares at the date of grant, as adjusted (discussed above).

The Company issued common shares to its non-employee directors, as a component of compensation. The grant value was equal to the market value of the Company’s common shares at the date of grant. Common shares issued to directors through September 30, 2024, under the previous director compensation program, were fully vested upon grant. In October 2024, the Company issued 52,326 RSUs to non-employee directors under a new director compensation program that are subject to a three-year vesting requirement.

Performance-Based Restricted Share Units

In 2024, the Board of Directors approved grants of performance-based restricted share units (“PRSUs”) to the Company’s named executive officers. In 2023 and 2022, the Board of Directors approved PRSU grants to the Company’s four named executive officers and one additional officer. These PRSUs covered a “target” number of shares, subject to three-year performance periods beginning on the respective March 1 and ending after a three-year period on the respective February 28.

In March 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company issued 36,604 common shares, 139,889 common shares and 129,813 common shares, respectively, in settlement of PRSUs granted in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Grant date fair values aggregated $3.9 million for each of 2024, 2023 and 2022, all to be amortized ratably over the performance period ending three years from the date of grant.

In connection with the spin-off of Curbline Properties, performance under each outstanding PRSU award was determined as of the close of trading on September 30, 2024, and resulting time-based RSUs were awarded to holders, based on the greater of actual performance to that date under the PRSU award and 150% of the target number of PRSUs.

All RSUs outstanding at the time of the Curbline spin-off (including RSUs awarded on account of settled PRSUs as described above) were equitably adjusted into time-based RSUs of Curbline Properties (for holders whose employment was transferred to Curbline Properties, including the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer) or SITE Centers (for holders whose employment remained at the Company, including the General Counsel) so that the settled awards generally retained, immediately after the spin-off, substantially the same intrinsic value that they had immediately prior to the spin-off. These RSUs remain subject to continued employment requirements.

Summary of Unvested Share Awards

The following table reflects the activity for the unvested awards pursuant to all restricted stock grants:

 

Awards
(Thousands)

 

 

Weighted-Average
Grant Date
Fair Value

 

Unvested at December 31, 2023

 

352

 

 

$

13.33

 

Granted

 

153

 

 

 

16.31

 

Vested

 

(125

)

 

 

12.24

 

Cancelled(A)

 

(149

)

 

 

15.04

 

Unvested at December 31, 2024

 

231

 

 

$

12.16

 

(A) Includes RSU awards held by employees that were transferred to Curbline Properties as part of the spin-off, which RSUs were adjusted into RSU awards payable in common shares of Curbline Properties under its equity and incentive compensation plan (such that they no longer hold RSU awards payable in Company common shares).

As of December 31, 2024, total unrecognized compensation for the restricted awards granted under the plans as summarized above was $2.1 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average 1.5-year term.

Stock Options

The Company had 0.1 million, 0.1 million and 0.2 million stock options outstanding at December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, all exercisable, at a weighted-average price of $30.96, $31.11 and $31.06, none of which have any intrinsic value.

Deferred Compensation Plans

The Company maintains a 401(k) defined contribution plan covering substantially all of the officers and employees of the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Code. Also, for certain officers, the Company maintains the Elective Deferred Compensation Plan, a non-qualified plan, which permits the deferral of cash base salaries, commissions and annual performance-based cash bonuses. In addition, directors of the Company were permitted to defer all or a portion of their fees pursuant to the Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan, a non-qualified plan. In 2024, in preparation for the spin-off of Curbline Properties, the Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan was terminated and, pursuant to its terms, the remaining account balances will be distributed to participants in the first half of 2025. All of these plans were fully funded at December 31, 2024.