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Share-Based Payments | 5 Months Ended
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Feb. 11, 2023
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Share-Based Payments | Note B – Share-Based Payments AutoZone maintains several equity incentive plans, which provide equity-based compensation to non-employee directors and eligible employees for their service to AutoZone, its subsidiaries or affiliates. The Company recognizes compensation expense for share-based payments based on the fair value of the awards at the grant date. Share-based payments include stock option grants, restricted stock grants, restricted stock unit grants, stock appreciation rights, discounts on shares sold to employees under share purchase plans and other awards. Additionally, directors’ fees are paid in restricted stock units with value equivalent to the value of shares of common stock as of the grant date. The change in fair value of liability-based stock awards is also recognized in share-based compensation expense. Stock Options: The Company made stock option grants for 157,870 shares during the twenty-four week period ended February 11, 2023 and granted options to purchase 164,262 shares during the comparable prior year period. The Company grants options to purchase common stock to certain of its employees under its equity incentive plans at prices equal to the market value of the stock on the date of grant. The fair value of each option is amortized into compensation expense on a straight-line basis between the grant date for the award and each vesting date. The weighted average fair value of the stock option awards granted during the twenty-four week periods ended February 11, 2023 and February 12, 2022, using the Black-Scholes-Merton multiple-option pricing valuation model, was $760.98 and $463.09 per share, respectively, using the following weighted average key assumptions: ​
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​ |  | 2023 | ​ | 2022 | ​
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Expected price volatility |  | 29 | % | 28 | %
Risk-free interest rate |  | 3.8 | % | 1.1 | %
Weighted average expected lives (in years) |  | 5.4 |  | 5.6 |
Forfeiture rate |  | 10 | % | 10 | %
Dividend yield |  | 0 | % | 0 | %
​ During the twenty-four week period ended February 11, 2023, and the comparable prior year period, 96,080 and 123,216 stock options were exercised at a weighted average exercise price of $709.98 and $584.81, respectively. As of February 11, 2023, total unrecognized share-based expense related to stock options, net of estimated forfeitures, was approximately $137.7 million, before income taxes, which we expect to recognize over an estimated weighted average period of 3.3 years. Restricted Stock Units: Restricted stock unit awards are valued at the market price of a share of the Company’s stock on the date of grant. Grants of employee restricted stock units vest ratably on an annual basis over a four-year service period and are payable in shares of common stock on the vesting date. Compensation expense for grants of employee restricted stock units is recognized on a straight-line basis over the four-year service period, less estimated forfeitures, which are consistent with stock option forfeiture assumptions. Grants of non-employee director restricted stock units are made and expensed on January 1 of each year, as they vest immediately. As of February 11, 2023, total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to nonvested restricted stock unit awards, net of estimated forfeitures, was approximately $11.7 million, before income taxes, which we expect to recognize over an estimated weighted average period of 2.8 years. Transactions related to restricted stock units for the twenty-four weeks ended February 11, 2023 were as follows: ​
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​ |  | Number |  | Average Grant
​ | ​ | of Shares | ​ | Date Fair Value
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Nonvested at August 27, 2022 |  | 12,731 | ​ | $ | 1,223.61
Granted |  | 3,584 | ​ | ​ | 2,267.40
Vested |  | (6,635) | ​ | ​ | 1,276.65
Forfeited |  | (1,054) | ​ | ​ | 1,555.01
Nonvested at February 11, 2023 |  | 8,626 | ​ | $ | 1,576.00
​ Total share-based compensation expense (a component of Operating, selling, general and administrative expenses) for the twelve and twenty-four week periods ended February 11, 2023, was $23.4 million and $42.4 million, respectively. For the comparable prior year periods, total share-based compensation expense was $16.4 million and $30.7 million, respectively. For the twelve and twenty-four week periods ended February 11, 2023, 156,925 and 122,072, respectively, stock options were excluded from the diluted earnings per share computation because they would have been anti-dilutive. For the comparable prior year periods, 162,955 and 128,399, respectively, anti-dilutive stock options were excluded from the dilutive earnings per share computation. See AutoZone’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 27, 2022 and other filings with the SEC, for a discussion regarding the methodology used in developing AutoZone’s assumptions to determine the fair value of the option awards and a description of AutoZone’s Amended and Restated 2011 Equity Incentive Award Plan, the AutoZone, Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Award Plan and the Director Compensation Program.

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