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Share-based awards (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Summary of Stock Option Activity | The following table summarizes option activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2024:
| Options Outstanding Number of Shares |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life
Outstanding at December 31, 2023 | 902,806 |  |  | $ | 142.96 |  |  | 4.42
Granted | 68,380 |  |  | $ | 325.51 |  |  |
Exercised | (275,805) |  |  | $ | 117.37 |  |  |
Forfeited | (17,341) |  |  | $ | 239.54 |  |  |
Outstanding at September 30, 2024 | 678,040 |  |  | $ | 169.30 |  |  | 4.29
Exercisable at September 30, 2024 | 461,732 |  |  | $ | 133.30 |  |  | 3.48
Schedule of Weighted Average Fair Values and Assumptions Used | The weighted average grant date fair values and assumptions used were as follows:
| Nine Months Ended
| September 30, 2024 |  | September 30, 2023
Weighted average grant date fair value | $ | 115.76 |  |  | $ | 85.12 |
Assumptions: |  |  |
Expected volatility | 36 | % |  | 33 | %
Dividend yield | — | % |  | — | %
Risk-free interest rate | 4.20 | % |  | 4.18 | %
Expected life | 4.3 years |  | 5 years
Summary of RSU and PSU Activity | The following table summarizes RSU and PSU activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2024:
| PSU Outstanding Number of Shares |  | PSU Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value |  | RSU Outstanding Number of Shares |  | RSU Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2023 | 105,256 |  |  | $ | 226.29 |  |  | 621,011 |  |  | $ | 218.27 |
Granted | 48,626 |  |  | $ | 325.51 |  |  | 245,750 |  |  | $ | 318.49 |
Shares vested | (9,975) |  |  | $ | 177.38 |  |  | (115,570) |  |  | $ | 221.85 |
Forfeited | (94,178) |  |  | $ | 262.66 |  |  | (62,360) |  |  | $ | 233.79 |
Outstanding at September 30, 2024 | 49,729 |  |  | $ | 264.25 |  |  | 688,831 |  |  | $ | 251.87 |
Schedule of Non-Cash Stock Compensation Expense | Stock compensation expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023 has been allocated as follows:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| September 30, 2024 | September 30, 2023 |  | September 30, 2024 | September 30, 2023
| (in thousands)
Direct costs | $ | 7,745 |  | $ | 6,637 |  |  | $ | 21,765 |  | $ | 18,725 |
Selling, general and administrative | 5,293 |  | 9,828 |  |  | 19,418 |  | 29,097 |
Total | $ | 13,038 |  | $ | 16,465 |  |  | $ | 41,183 |  | $ | 47,822 |

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