Equity Incentive Awards

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

Equity Incentive Awards

Equity Incentive Awards

Our 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”) was adopted by the Board of Directors on March 11, 2014 and approved by our stockholders on May 13, 2014. During the quarter ended March 31, 2020, 90,933 shares of restricted stock were awarded to certain members of our management team. Of these shares, 50% are time-based awards, vesting in equal installments over a three-year period on January 29, 2021, January 31, 2022, and January 27, 2023, respectively, and have a grant date fair value of $3.3 million. The remaining 50% are performance-based awards vesting in equal installments on January 29, 2021, January 31, 2022, and January 27, 2023, respectively, upon meeting performance conditions as established by the Compensation Committee in the year of the vesting period. They are valued using the closing price at the grant date when all the key terms and conditions are known to all parties. The 15,154 shares of restricted stock subject to 2020 performance goals have a grant date fair value of $1.1 million.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2020, we awarded to certain members of our Board of Directors 60,171 shares of restricted stock at a fair value of approximately $4.0 million and options to purchase 16,090 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $66.81. These are time-based awards subject to various vesting dates between January 28, 2021 and July 28, 2023.

Stock based compensation expense, reported in General and administrative expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income, for the quarters ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, was $2.9 million and $2.7 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, was $8.5 million and $7.8 million, respectively.