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Stock-Based Compensation (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Schedule of Stock-Based Compensation Expense and Related Tax Benefits |
|  | Third Quarter |  | First Nine Months
|  | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | ($ in millions)
Stock-based compensation expense |  | $ | 17 |  |  | $ | (5) |  |  | $ | 52 |  |  | $ | 27 |
Total tax benefit |  | 5 |  |  | (1) |  |  | 13 |  |  | 7 |
Schedule of Long-Term Incentive Plan Awards | During 2025, we granted stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance share units (PSUs) pursuant to the Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), as follows:
|  | Third Quarter |  | First Nine Months
|  | Granted |  | Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value |  | Granted |  | Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Stock options |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 80,067 |  |  | $ | 87.33 |
RSUs |  | 2,875 |  |  | 276.55 |  |  | 196,213 |  |  | 255.06 |
PSUs |  | 302 |  |  | 310.75 |  |  | 66,636 |  |  | 296.61 |
Summary of Stock Options, Restricted Stock Units, and Performance Share Units |
|  | Third Quarter |  | First Nine Months
|  | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | ($ in millions)
Options exercised |  | 57,035 |  | 142,833 |  |  | 125,939 |  |  | 257,807 |
Cash received upon exercise |  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 31 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | 1 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 6 |
|  | Third Quarter |  | First Nine Months
|  | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | ($ in millions)
RSUs vested |  | 6,884 |  |  | 1,836 |  |  | 170,102 |  |  | 170,981 |
Common Stock issued net of tax withholding |  | 4,653 |  |  | 1,391 |  |  | 118,135 |  |  | 118,657 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1 |  |  | $ | — |
|  | First Nine Months
|  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | ($ in millions)
PSUs earned |  | 8,540 |  |  | 41,580 |
Common Stock issued net of tax withholding |  | 5,633 |  |  | 26,056 |
Related tax benefits realized |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |

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