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Stock Compensation Plans (Notes) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2021
Stock Compensation Plans [Abstract] |
Stock Compensation Plans | Stock Compensation Plans Charter’s stock incentive plans provide for grants of nonqualified stock options, incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights, dividend equivalent rights, performance units and performance shares, share awards, phantom stock, restricted stock units and restricted stock. Directors, officers and other employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, as well as others performing consulting services for the Company, are eligible for grants under the stock incentive plans. Charter granted the following equity awards for the periods presented.
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2021 |  | 2020 |  | 2021 |  | 2020
Stock options | 36,900 |  |  | 17,100 |  |  | 1,278,700 |  |  | 1,282,400 |
Restricted stock | — |  |  | — |  |  | 4,600 |  |  | 6,000 |
Restricted stock units | 8,900 |  |  | 5,000 |  |  | 363,100 |  |  | 420,900 |
Stock options and restricted stock units generally cliff vest three years from the date of grant. Stock options generally expire ten years from the grant date and restricted stock units have no voting rights. Restricted stock generally vests one year from the date of grant. As of September 30, 2021, total unrecognized compensation remaining to be recognized in future periods totaled $272 million for stock options, $2 million for restricted stock and $257 million for restricted stock units and the weighted average period over which they are expected to be recognized is two years for stock options, seven months for restricted stock and two years for restricted stock units. The Company recorded stock compensation expense of $98 million and $332 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, respectively, and $83 million and $263 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, which is included in operating costs and expenses.

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