Stock Compensation Plans (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2023

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 June 30,		Six Months Ended June 30,
	2023	2022	2023	2022
Stock options	21,500	32,000	4,257,200	1,404,400
Restricted stock	10,300	6,800	10,300	6,800
Restricted stock units	21,500	19,500	1,535,900	443,100

Stock options and restricted stock units generally cliff vest three years from the date of grant. Certain stock options and restricted stock units vest based on achievement of stock price hurdles. 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 June 30, 2023, total unrecognized compensation remaining to be recognized in future periods totaled $555 million for stock options, $3 million for restricted stock and $610 million for restricted stock units and the weighted average period over which they are expected to be recognized is three years for stock options, ten months for restricted stock and two years for restricted stock units. The Company recorded stock compensation expense of $168 million and $376 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, respectively, and $104 million and $251 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, respectively, which is included in operating costs and expenses.