Regulation S-K
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| Name and principal position | Year |
Annual compensation |
Long-term compensation | |||||
| Salary ($) | Bonus ($) | Other annual compen-sation ($) | Awards | Payouts | All other compen-sation ($) | |||
| Restricted stock awards(s) ($) | Secur-ities under-lying options/SARS(#) | LTIP payouts ($) | ||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) |
| CEO | ||||||||
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| C... | ||||||||
| D... | ||||||||
i. The name and principal position of the executive officer (column (a));
ii. Fiscal year covered (column (b));
iii. Annual compensation (columns (c), (d) and (e)), including:
A. The dollar value of base salary (cash and non-cash) earned by the named executive officer during the fiscal year covered (column (c));
B. The dollar value of bonus (cash and non-cash) earned by the named executive officer during the fiscal year covered (column (d)); and
Instructions to Item 402(b)(2)(iii)(A) and (B):
1. Amounts deferred at the election of a named executive officer, whether pursuant to a plan established under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, or otherwise, shall be included in the salary column (column (c)) or bonus column (column (d)), as appropriate, for the fiscal year in which earned. If the amount of salary or bonus earned in a given fiscal year is not calculable through the latest practicable date, that fact must be disclosed in a footnote and such amount must be disclosed in the subsequent fiscal year in the appropriate column for the fiscal year in which earned.
2. For stock or any other form of non-cash compensation, disclose the fair market value at the time the compensation is awarded, earned or paid.
3. Registrants need not include in the salary column (column (c)) or bonus column (column (d)) any amount of salary or bonus forgone at the election of a named executive officer pursuant to a registrant program under which stock, stock-based or other forms of non-cash compensation may be received by a named executive in lieu of a portion of annual compensation earned in a covered fiscal year. However, the receipt of any such form of non-cash compensation in lieu of salary or bonus earned for a covered fiscal year must be disclosed in the appropriate column of the Table corresponding to that fiscal year (i.e., restricted stock awards (column (f)); options or SARs (column (g)); all other compensation (column (i)), or, if made pursuant to a long-term incentive plan and therefore not reportable at grant in the Summary Compensation Table, a footnote must be added to the salary or bonus column so disclosing and referring to the Long-Term Incentive Plan Table (required by paragraph (e) of this item) where the award is reported.
C. The dollar value of other annual compensation not properly categorized as salary or bonus, as follows (column (e)):
1. Perquisites and other personal benefits, securities or property, unless the aggregate amount of such compensation is the lesser of either $50,000 or 10% of the total of annual salary and bonus reported for the named executive officer in columns (c) and (d);
2. Above-market or preferential earnings on restricted stock, options, SARs or deferred compensation paid during the fiscal year or payable during that period but deferred at the election of the named executive officer;
3. Earnings on long-term incentive plan compensation paid during the fiscal year or payable during that period but deferred at the election of the named executive officer;
4. Amounts reimbursed during the fiscal year for the payment of taxes; and
5. The dollar value of the difference between the price paid by a named executive officer for any security of the registrant or its subsidiaries purchased from the registrant or its subsidiaries (through deferral of salary or bonus, or otherwise), and the fair market value of such security at the date of purchase, unless that discount is available generally, either to all security holders or to all salaried employees of the registrant.
Instructions to Item 402(b)(2)(iii)(C):
1. Each perquisite or other personal benefit exceeding 25% of the total perquisites and other personal benefits reported for a named executive officer must be identified by type and amount in a footnote or accompanying narrative discussion to column (e).
2. Perquisites and other personal benefits shall be valued on the basis of the aggregate incremental cost to the registrant and its subsidiaries.
3. Interest on deferred or long-term compensation is above-market only if the rate of interest exceeds 120% of the applicable federal long-term rate, with compounding (as prescribed under section 1274(d) of the Internal Revenue Code) at the rate that corresponds most closely to the rate under the registrant's plan at the time the interest rate or formula is set. In the event of a discretionary reset of the interest rate, the requisite calculation must be made on the basis of the interest rate at the time of such reset, rather than when originally established. Only the above-market portion of the interest must be included. If the applicable interest rates vary depending upon conditions such as a minimum period of continued service, the reported amount should be calculated assuming satisfaction of all conditions to receiving interest at the highest rate.
4. Dividends (and dividend equivalents) on restricted stock, options, SARs or deferred compensation denominated in stock ("deferred stock") are preferential only if earned at a rate higher than dividends on the registrant's common stock. Only the preferential portion of the dividends or equivalents must be included.
iv. Long-term compensation (columns (f), (g) and (h)), including:
A. The dollar value (net of any consideration paid by the named executive officer) of any award of restricted stock, including share units (calculated by multiplying the closing market price of the registrant's unrestricted stock on the date of grant by the number of shares awarded) (column (f));
B. The sum of the number of securities underlying stock options granted (including options that subsequently have been transferred), with or without tandem SARs, and the number of freestanding SARs (column (g)); and
C. The dollar value of all payouts pursuant to long-term incentive plans ("LTIPs") as defined in paragraph (a)(7)(iii) of this item (column (h)).
Instructions to Item 402(b)(2)(iv):
1. Awards of restricted stock that are subject to performance-based conditions on vesting, in addition to lapse of time and/or continued service with the registrant or a subsidiary, may be reported as LTIP awards pursuant to paragraph (e) of this item instead of in column (f). If this approach is selected, once the restricted stock vests, it must be reported as an LTIP payout in column (h).
2. The registrant shall, in a footnote to the Summary Compensation Table (appended to column (f), if included), disclose:
a. The number and value of the aggregate restricted stock holdings at the end of the last completed fiscal year. The value shall be calculated in the manner specified in paragraph (b)(2)(iv)(A) of this item using the value of the registrant's shares at the end of the last completed fiscal year;
b. For any restricted stock award reported in the Summary Compensation Table that will vest, in whole or in part, in under three years from the date of grant, the total number of shares awarded and the vesting schedule; and
c. Whether dividends will be paid on the restricted stock reported in column (f).
3. If at any time during the last completed fiscal year, the registrant has adjusted or amended the exercise price of stock options or freestanding SARs previously awarded to a named executive officer, whether through amendment, cancellation or replacement grants, or any other means ("repriced"), the registrant shall include the number of options or freestanding SARs so repriced as Stock Options/SARs granted and required to be reported in column (g).
4. If any specified performance target, goal or condition to payout was waived with respect to any amount included in LTIP payouts reported in column (h), the registrant shall so state in a footnote to column (h).
v. All other compensation for the covered fiscal year that the registrant could not properly report in any other column of the Summary Compensation Table (column (i)). Any compensation reported in this column for the last completed fiscal year shall be identified and quantified in a footnote. Such compensation shall include, but not be limited to:
A. The amount paid, payable or accrued to any named executive officer pursuant to a plan or arrangement in connection with:
1. The resignation, retirement or any other termination of such executive officer's employment with the registrant and its subsidiaries; or
2. A change in control of the registrant or a change in the executive officer's responsibilities following such a change in control;
B. The dollar value of above-market or preferential amounts earned on restricted stock, options, SARs or deferred compensation during the fiscal year, or calculated with respect to that period, except that if such amounts are paid during the period, or payable during the period but deferred at the election of a named executive officer, this information shall be reported as Other Annual Compensation in column (e). See Instructions 3 and 4 to paragraph (b)(2)(iii)(C) of this item;
C. The dollar value of amounts earned on long-term incentive plan compensation during the fiscal year, or calculated with respect to that period, except that if such amounts are paid during that period, or payable during that period at the election of the named executive officer, this information shall be reported as Other Annual Compensation in column (e);
D. Annual registrant contributions or other allocations to vested and unvested defined contribution plans; and
E. The dollar value of any insurance premiums paid by, or on behalf of, the registrant during the covered fiscal year with respect to term life insurance for the benefit of a named executive officer, and, if there is any arrangement or understanding, whether formal or informal, that such executive officer has or will receive or be allocated an interest in any cash surrender value under the insurance policy, either:
1. The full dollar value of the remainder of the premiums paid by, or on behalf of, the registrant; or
2. If the premiums will be refunded to the registrant on termination of the policy, the dollar value of the benefit to the executive officer of the remainder of the premium paid by, or on behalf of, the registrant during the fiscal year. The benefit shall be determined for the period, projected on an actuarial basis, between payment of the premium and the refund.
Instructions to Item 402(b)(2)(v):
1. LTIP awards and amounts received on exercise of options and SARs need not be reported as All Other Compensation in column (i).
2. Information relating to defined benefit and actuarial plans should not be reported pursuant to paragraph (b) of this item, but instead should be reported pursuant to paragraph (f) of this item.
3. Where alternative methods of reporting are available under paragraph (b)(2)(v)(E) of this item, the same method should be used for each of the named executive officers. If the registrant chooses to change methods from one year to the next, that fact, and the reason therefor, should be disclosed in a footnote to column (i).
Instruction to
Item 402(b)
Information with respect to fiscal years prior to the last completed fiscal
year will not be required if the registrant was not a reporting company
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act at any time during
that year, except that the registrant will be required to provide information
for any such year if that information previously was required to be provided
in response to a Commission filing requirement.
1. The information specified in paragraph (c)(2) of this item, concerning individual grants of stock options (whether or not in tandem with SARs), and freestanding SARs (including options and SARs that subsequently have been transferred) made during the last completed fiscal year to each of the named executive officers shall be provided in the tabular format specified as follows:
OPTION/SAR GRANTS IN LAST FISCAL YEAR
| Individual Grants | Potential realizable value at assumed annual rates of stock price appreciation for option term | Alternative to (f) and (g): grant date value | |||||
| Name | Number of securities underlying option / SARs granted (#) | Percent of total options / SARs granted to employees in fiscal year | Exercise of base price ($/Sh) | Expiration date | 5% ($) | 10% ($) | Grant date present value $ |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) |
| CEO... | |||||||
| A... | |||||||
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2. The Table shall include, with respect to each grant:
i. The name of the executive officer (column (a));
ii. Number of securities underlying option/SARs granted (column (b)).
iii. The percent the grant represents of total options and SARs granted to employees during the fiscal year (column (c));
iv. The per-share exercise or base price of the options or SARs granted (column (d)). If such exercise or base price is less than the market price of the underlying security on the date of grant, a separate, adjoining column shall be added showing market price on the date of grant;
v. The expiration date of the options or SARs (column (e)); and
vi. Either (A) the potential realizable value of each grant of options or freestanding SARs or (B) the present value of each grant, as follows:
A. The potential realizable value of each grant of options or freestanding SARs, assuming that the market price of the underlying security appreciates in value from the date of grant to the end of the option or SAR term, at the following annualized rates:
3. If the exercise or base price was below the market price of the underlying security at the date of grant, provide an additional column labeled 0%, to show the value at grant-date market price; or
B. The present value of the grant at the date of grant, under any option pricing model (alternative column (f)).
Instructions to Item 402(c):
1. If more than one grant of options and/or freestanding SARs was made to a named executive officer during the last completed fiscal year, a separate line should be used to provide disclosure of each such grant. However, multiple grants during a single fiscal year may be aggregated where each grant was made at the same exercise and/or base price and has the same expiration date, and the same performance vesting thresholds, if any. A single grant consisting of options and/or freestanding SARs shall be reported as separate grants with respect to each tranche with a different exercise and/or base price, performance vesting threshold, or expiration date.
2. Options or freestanding SARs granted in connection with an option repricing transaction shall be reported in this table. See Instruction 3 to paragraph (b)(2)(iv) of this item.
3. Any material term of the grant, including but not limited to the date of exercisability, the number of SARs, performance units or other instruments granted in tandem with options, a performance-based condition to exercisability, a reload feature, or a tax-reimbursement feature, shall be footnoted.
4. If the exercise or base price is adjustable over the term of any option or freestanding SAR in accordance with any prescribed standard or formula, including but not limited to an index or premium price provision, describe the following, either by footnote to column (c) or in narrative accompanying the Table: (a) the standard or formula; and (b) any constant assumption made by the registrant regarding any adjustment to the exercise price in calculating the potential option or SAR value.
5. If any provision of a grant (other than an antidilution provision) could cause the exercise price to be lowered, registrants must clearly and fully disclose these provisions and their potential consequences either by a footnote or accompanying textual narrative.
6. In determining the grant-date market or base price of the security underlying options or freestanding SARs, the registrant may use either the closing market price per share of the security, or any other formula prescribed for the security.
7. The potential realizable dollar value of a grant (columns (f) and (g)) shall be the product of:
i. the product of the per-share market price at the time of the grant and the sum of 1 plus the adjusted stock price appreciation rate (the assumed rate of appreciation compounded annually over the term of the option or SAR); and
ii. the per-share exercise price of the option or SAR; and
b. the number of securities underlying the grant at fiscal year-end.
8. Registrants may add one or more separate columns using the formula prescribed in Instruction 7 to paragraph (c) of this item, to reflect the following:
a. The registrant's historic rate of appreciation over a period equivalent to the term of such options and/or SARs;
b. 0% appreciation, where the exercise or base price was equal to or greater than the market price of the underlying securities on the date of grant; and
c. N% appreciation, the percentage appreciation by which the exercise or base price exceeded the market price at grant. Where the grant included multiple tranches with exercise or base prices exceeding the market price of the underlying security by varying degrees, include an additional column for each additional tranche.
9. Where the registrant chooses to use the grant-date valuation alternative specified in paragraph (c)(2)(vi)(B) of this item, the valuation shall be footnoted to describe the valuation method used. Where the registrant has used a variation of the Black-Scholes or binomial option pricing model, the description shall identify the use of such pricing model and describe the assumptions used relating to the expected volatility, risk-free rate of return, dividend yield and time of exercise. Any adjustments for non-transferability or risk of forfeiture also shall be disclosed. In the event another valuation method is used, the registrant is required to describe the methodology as well as any material assumptions.
d. Aggregated option/SAR exercises and fiscal year-end option/SAR value table.
1. The information specified in paragraph (d)(2) of this item, concerning each exercise of stock options (or tandem SARs) and freestanding SARs during the last completed fiscal year by each of the named executive officers and the fiscal year-end value of unexercised options and SARs, shall be provided on an aggregated basis in the tabular format specified below:
Aggregated Option/SAR Exercises in Last
Fiscal Year
and FY-End Option/SAR Values
| Name | Shares acquired on exercise (#) | Value realized ($) | Number of securities underlying unexercised options / SARs at FY-end (#) Exercisable / Unexercisable |
Value of unexercised in-the-money options/ SARs at FY-end ($) Exercisable / Unexercisable |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) |
| CEO... | ||||
| A... | ||||
| B... | ||||
| C... | ||||
| D... |
i. The name of the executive officer (column (a));
ii. The number of shares received upon exercise, or, if no shares were received, the number of securities with respect to which the options or SARs were exercised (column (b));
iii. The aggregate dollar value realized upon exercise (column (c));
iv. The total number of securities underlying unexercised options and SARs held at the end of the last completed fiscal year, separately identifying the exercisable and unexercisable options and SARs (column (d)); and
v. The aggregate dollar value of in-the-money, unexercised options and SARs held at the end of the fiscal year, separately identifying the exercisable and unexercisable options and SARs (column (e)).
Instructions to Item 402(d)(2):
1. Options or freestanding SARs are in-the-money if the fair market value of the underlying securities exceeds the exercise or base price of the option or SAR. The dollar values in columns (c) and (e) are calculated by determining the difference between the fair market value of the securities underlying the options or SARs and the exercise or base price of the options or SARs at exercise or fiscal year-end, respectively.
2. In calculating the dollar value realized upon exercise (column (c)), the value of any related payment or other consideration provided (or to be provided) by the registrant to or on behalf of a named executive officer, whether in payment of the exercise price or related taxes, shall not be included. Payments by the registrant in reimbursement of tax obligations incurred by a named executive officer are required to be disclosed in accordance with paragraph (b)(2)(iii)(C)(4) of this item.
e. Long-Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") awards table.
1. The information specified in paragraph (e)(2) of this item, regarding each award made to a named executive officer in the last completed fiscal year under any LTIP, shall be provided in the tabular format specified below:
LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLANS--AWARDS IN LAST FISCAL YEAR
| Name | Number of shares, units or other rights (#) | Performance or other period until maturation or payout | Estimated future payouts under non-stock price-based plans | ||
| Threshold ($ or #) | Target ($ or #) | Maximum ($ or #) | |||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) |
| CEO... | |||||
| A... | |||||
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| C... | |||||
| D... | |||||
i. The name of the executive officer (column (a));
ii. The number of shares, units or other rights awarded under any LTIP, and, if applicable, the number of shares underlying any such unit or right (column (b));
iii. The performance or other time period until payout or maturation of the award (column (c)); and
iv. For plans not based on stock price, the dollar value of the estimated payout, the number of shares to be awarded as the payout or a range of estimated payouts denominated in dollars or number of shares under the award (threshold, target and maximum amount) (columns (d) through (f)).
1. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "long-term incentive plan" or "LTIP" shall be defined in accordance with paragraph (a)(7)(iii) of this item.
2. Describe in a footnote or in narrative text accompanying this table the material terms of any award, including a general description of the formula or criteria to be applied in determining the amounts payable. Registrants are not required to disclose any factor, criterion or performance-related or other condition to payout or maturation of a particular award that involves confidential commercial or business information, disclosure of which would adversely affect the registrant's competitive position.
3. Separate disclosure shall be provided in the Table for each award made to a named executive officer, accompanied by the information specified in Instruction 2 to this paragraph. If awards are made to a named executive officer during the fiscal year under more than one plan, identify the particular plan under which each such award was made.
4. For column (d), "threshold" refers to the minimum amount payable for a certain level of performance under the plan. For column (e), "target" refers to the amount payable if the specified performance target(s) are reached. For column (f), "maximum" refers to the maximum payout possible under the plan.
5. In column (e), registrants must provide a representative amount based on the previous fiscal year's performance if the target award is not determinable.
6. A tandem grant of two instruments, only one of which is pursuant to a LTIP, need be reported only in the table applicable to the other instrument. For example, an option granted in tandem with a performance share would be reported only as an option grant, with the tandem feature noted.
f. Defined benefit or actuarial plan disclosure--
i. For any defined benefit or actuarial plan under which benefits are determined primarily by final compensation (or average final compensation) and years of service, provide a separate Pension Plan Table showing estimated annual benefits payable upon retirement (including amounts attributable to any defined benefit supplementary or excess pension award plans) in specified compensation and years of service classifications in the format specified below.
PENSION PLAN TABLE
| Remuneration | Years of Service | ||||
| 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | |
| 125,000 | |||||
| 150,000 | |||||
| 175,000 | |||||
| 200,000 | |||||
| 225,000 | |||||
| 250,000 | |||||
| 300,000 | |||||
| 400,000 | |||||
| 450,000 | |||||
| 500,000 | |||||
ii. Immediately following the Table, the registrant shall disclose:
A. The compensation covered by the plan(s), including the relationship of such covered compensation to the annual compensation reported in the Summary Compensation Table required by paragraph (b)(2)(iii) of this item, and state the current compensation covered by the plan for any named executive officer whose covered compensation differs substantially (by more than 10%) from that set forth in the annual compensation columns of the Summary Compensation Table;
B. The estimated credited years of service for each of the named executive officers; and
C. A statement as to the basis upon which benefits are computed (e.g., straight-life annuity amounts), and whether or not the benefits listed in the Pension Plan Table are subject to any deduction for Social Security or other offset amounts.
2. Alternative pension plan disclosure. For any defined benefit or actuarial plan under which benefits are not determined primarily by final compensation (or average final compensation) and years of service, the registrant shall state in narrative form:
i. The formula by which benefits are determined; and
ii. The estimated annual benefits payable upon retirement at normal retirement age for each of the named executive officers.
1. Pension Levels. Compensation set forth in the Pension Plan Table pursuant to paragraph (f)(1)(i) of this item shall allow for reasonable increases in existing compensation levels; alternatively, registrants may present as the highest compensation level in the Pension Plan Table an amount equal to 120% of the amount of covered compensation of the most highly compensated individual named in the Summary Compensation Table required by paragraph (b)(2) of this item.
2. Normal Retirement Age. The term "normal retirement age" means normal retirement age as defined in a pension or similar plan or, if not defined therein, the earliest time at which a participant may retire without any benefit reduction due to age.
g. Compensation of Directors--
1. Standard arrangements. Describe any standard arrangements, stating amounts, pursuant to which directors of the registrant are compensated for any services provided as a director, including any additional amounts payable for committee participation or special assignments.
2. Other arrangements. Describe any other arrangements pursuant to which any director of the registrant was compensated during the registrant's last completed fiscal year for any service provided as a director, stating the amount paid and the name of the director.
Instruction to
Item 402(g)(2):
The information required by paragraph (g)(2) of this item shall include
any arrangement, including consulting contracts, entered into in consideration
of the director's service on the board. The material terms of any such arrangement
shall be included.
h. Employment contracts and termination of employment and change-in-control arrangements. Describe the terms and conditions of each of the following contracts or arrangements:
1. Any employment contract between the registrant and a named executive officer; and
2. Any compensatory plan or arrangement, including payments to be received from the registrant, with respect to a named executive officer, if such plan or arrangement results or will result from the resignation, retirement or any other termination of such executive officer's employment with the registrant and its subsidiaries or from a change-in-control of the registrant or a change in the named executive officer's responsibilities following a change-in-control and the amount involved, including all periodic payments or installments, exceeds $100,000.
i. Report on repricing of options/SARs.
1. If at any time during the last completed fiscal year, the registrant, while a reporting company pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, has adjusted or amended the exercise price of stock options or SARs previously awarded to any of the named executive officers, whether through amendment, cancellation or replacement grants, or any other means ("repriced"), the registrant shall provide the information specified in paragraphs (i)(2) and (i)(3) of this item.
2. The compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) shall explain in reasonable detail any such repricing of options and/or SARs held by a named executive officer in the last completed fiscal year, as well as the basis for each such repricing.
i. The information specified in paragraph (i)(3)(ii) of this item, concerning all such repricings of options and SARs held by any executive officer during the last ten completed fiscal years, shall be provided in the tabular format specified below:
TEN-YEAR OPTION/SAR REPRICINGS
| Name | Date | Number of securities underlying options / SARs repriced or amended (#) | Market price of stock at time of repricing or amendment ($) | Exercise price at time of repricing or amendment ($) | New exercise price ($) | Length of original option term remaining at date of repricing or amendment |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) |
ii. The Table shall include, with respect to each repricing:
A. The name and position of the executive officer (column (a));
B. The date of each repricing (column (b));
C. The number of securities underlying replacement or amended options or SARs (column (c));
D. The per-share market price of the underlying security at the time of repricing (column (d));
E. The original exercise price or base price of the cancelled or amended option or SAR (column (e));
F. The per-share exercise price or base price of the replacement option or SAR (column (f)); and
G. The amount of time remaining before the replaced or amended option or SAR would have expired (column (g)).
Instructions to Item 402(i):
1. The required report shall be made over the name of each member of the registrant's compensation committee, or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors.
2. A replacement grant is any grant of options or SARs reasonably related to any prior or potential option or SAR cancellation, whether by an exchange of existing options or SARs for options or SARs with new terms; the grant of new options or SARs in tandem with previously granted options or SARs that will operate to cancel the previously granted options or SARs upon exercise; repricing of previously granted options or SARs; or otherwise. If a corresponding original grant was canceled in a prior year, information about such grant nevertheless must be disclosed pursuant to this paragraph.
3. If the replacement grant is not made at the current market price, describe the terms of the grant in a footnote or accompanying textual narrative.
4. This paragraph shall not apply to any repricing occurring through the operation of:
a. A plan formula or mechanism that results in the periodic adjustment of the option or SAR exercise or base price;
b. A plan antidilution provision; or
c. A recapitalization or similar transaction equally affecting all holders of the class of securities underlying the options or SARs.
5. Information required by paragraph (i)(3) of this item shall not be provided for any repricings effected before the registrant became a reporting company pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
j. Additional information with respect to Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation in compensation decisions. Under the caption "Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation,"
1. The registrant shall identify each person who served as a member of the compensation committee of the registrant's board of directors (or board committee performing equivalent functions) during the last completed fiscal year, indicating each committee member who:
i. was, during the fiscal year, an officer or employee of the registrant or any of its subsidiaries;
ii. was formerly an officer of the registrant or any of its subsidiaries; or
iii. Had any relationship requiring disclosure by the registrant under any paragraph of Item 404 of Regulation S-K. In this event, the disclosure required by Item 404 shall accompany such identification.
2. If the registrant has no compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions), the registrant shall identify each officer and employee of the registrant or any of its subsidiaries, and any former officer of the registrant or any of its subsidiaries, who, during the last completed fiscal year, participated in deliberations of the registrant's board of directors concerning executive officer compensation.
3. The registrant shall describe any of the following relationships that existed during the last completed fiscal year:
i. An executive officer of the registrant served as a member of the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of the registrant;
ii. An executive officer of the registrant served as a director of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of the registrant; and
iii. An executive officer of the registrant served as a member of the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of another entity, one of whose executive officers served as a director of the registrant.
4. Disclosure required under paragraph (j)(3) of this item regarding any compensation committee member or other director of the registrant who also served as an executive officer of another entity shall be accompanied by the disclosure called for by Item 404 with respect to that person.
Instruction to
Item
402(j):
For purposes of this paragraph, the term "entity" shall not include
an entity exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code.
k. Board compensation committee report on executive compensation.
1. Disclosure of the compensation committee's compensation policies applicable to the registrant's executive officers (including the named executive officers), including the specific relationship of corporate performance to executive compensation, is required with respect to compensation reported for the last completed fiscal year.
2. Discussion is required of the compensation committee's bases for the CEO's compensation reported for the last completed fiscal year, including the factors and criteria upon which the CEO's compensation was based. The committee shall include a specific discussion of the relationship of the registrant's performance to the CEO's compensation for the last completed fiscal year, describing each measure of the registrant's performance, whether qualitative or quantitative, on which the CEO's compensation was based.
3. The required disclosure shall be made over the name of each member of the registrant's compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, entire board of directors). If the board of directors modified or rejected in any material way any action or recommendation by such committee with respect to such decisions in the last completed fiscal year, the disclosure must so indicate and explain the reasons for the board's actions, and be made over the names of all members of the board.
Instructions to Item 402(k):
1. Boilerplate language should be avoided in describing factors and criteria underlying awards or payments of executive compensation in the statement required.
2. Registrants are not required to disclose target levels with respect to specific quantitative or qualitative performance-related factors considered by the committee (or board), or any factors or criteria involving confidential commercial or business information, the disclosure of which would have an adverse effect on the registrant.
1. Provide a line graph comparing the yearly percentage change in the registrant's cumulative total shareholder return on a class of common stock registered under section 12 of the Exchange Act (as measured by dividing (i) the sum of (A) the cumulative amount of dividends for the measurement period, assuming dividend reinvestment, and (B) the difference between the registrant's share price at the end and the beginning of the measurement period; by (ii) the share price at the beginning of the measurement period) with
i. the cumulative total return of a broad equity market index assuming reinvestment of dividends, that includes companies whose equity securities are traded on the same exchange or NASDAQ market or are of comparable market capitalization; provided, however,that if the registrant is a company within the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index, the registrant must use that index; and
ii. the cumulative total return, assuming reinvestment of dividends, of:
A. A published industry or line-of-business index;
B. Peer issuer(s) selected in good faith. If the registrant does not select its peer issuer(s) on an industry or line-of-business basis, the registrant shall disclose the basis for its selection; or
C. Issuer(s) with similar market capitalization(s), but only if the registrant does not use a published industry or line-of-business index and does not believe it can reasonably identify a peer group. If the registrant uses this alternative, the graph shall be accompanied by a statement of the reasons for this selection.
2. For purposes of paragraph (l)(1) of this item, the term "measurement period" shall be the period beginning at the "measurement point" established by the market close on the last trading day before the beginning of the registrant's fifth preceding fiscal year, through and including the end of the registrant's last completed fiscal year. If the class of securities has been registered under section 12 of the Exchange Act for a shorter period of time, the period covered by the comparison may correspond to that time period.
3. For purposes of paragraph (l)(1)(ii)(A) of this item, the term "published industry or line-of-business index" means any index that is prepared by a party other than the registrant or an affiliate and is accessible to the registrant's security holders; provided, however, that registrants may use an index prepared by the registrant or affiliate if such index is widely recognized and used.
4. If the registrant selects a different index from an index used for the immediately preceding fiscal year, explain the reason(s) for this change and also compare the registrant's total return with that of both the newly selected index and the index used in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Instructions to Item 402(l):
1. In preparing the required graphic comparisons, the registrant should:
a. Use, to the extent feasible, comparable methods of presentation and assumptions for the total return calculations required by paragraph (l)(1) of this item; provided, however, that if the registrant constructs its own peer group index under paragraph (l)(1)(ii)(B), the same methodology must be used in calculating both the registrant's total return and that on the peer group index; and
b. Assume the reinvestment of dividends into additional shares of the same class of equity securities at the frequency with which dividends are paid on such securities during the applicable fiscal year.
a. The closing price at the measurement point must be converted into a fixed investment, stated in dollars, in the registrant's stock (or in the stocks represented by a given index), with cumulative returns for each subsequent fiscal year measured as a change from that investment; and
b. Each fiscal year should be plotted with points showing the cumulative total return as of that point. The value of the investment as of each point plotted on a given return line is the number of shares held at that point multiplied by the then-prevailing share price.
3. The registrant is required to present information for the registrant's last five fiscal years, and may choose to graph a longer period; but the measurement point, however, shall remain the same.
4. Registrants may include comparisons using performance measures in addition to total return, such as return on average common shareholders' equity, so long as the registrant's compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) describes the link between that measure and the level of executive compensation in the statement required by paragraph (k) of this Item.
5. If the registrant uses a peer issuer(s) comparison or comparison with issuer(s) with similar market capitalizations, the identity of those issuers must be disclosed and the returns of each component issuer of the group must be weighted according to the respective issuer's stock market capitalization at the beginning of each period for which a return is indicated.
Regulatory History |
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57 FR 48150, Oct. 21, 1992 |
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