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Stock-Based Compensation (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Schedule of Stock-Based Compensation Cost |
|  | Second Quarter |  | First Six Months
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
|  | ($ in millions)
Stock-based compensation expense |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 32 |  |  | $ | 22 |
Total tax benefit |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 8 |  |  | 9 |
Schedule of LTIP Awards | During 2024, we granted stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance share units (PSUs) pursuant to the Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), as follows:
|  | Second Quarter |  | First Six Months
|  | Granted |  | Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value |  | Granted |  | Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Stock options |  | 8,090 |  |  | $ | 83.48 |  |  | 72,430 |  |  | $ | 80.08 |
RSUs |  | 29,941 |  |  | 240.18 |  |  | 226,509 |  |  | 234.61 |
PSUs |  | 5,420 |  |  | 248.86 |  |  | 58,020 |  |  | 259.02 |
Schedule of Cash Proceeds Received from Share-Based Payment Awards |
|  | Second Quarter |  | First Six Months
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
|  | ($ in millions)
Options exercised |  | 17,757 |  | 10,461 |  |  | 114,974 |  |  | 77,272 |
Cash received upon exercise |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 1 |  |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 6 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |
Schedule of Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit, Activity |
|  | Second Quarter |  | First Six Months
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
|  | ($ in millions)
RSUs vested |  | 12,494 |  |  | 3,908 |  |  | 169,145 |  |  | 153,030 |
Common Stock issued net of tax withholding |  | 9,016 |  |  | 2,811 |  |  | 117,266 |  |  | 107,419 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1 |
Schedule of Share-Based Compensation, Activity |
|  | First Six Months
|  | 2024 |  | 2023
|  | ($ in millions)
PSUs earned |  | 41,580 |  |  | 58,599 |
Common Stock issued net of tax withholding |  | 26,056 |  |  | 40,255 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |

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