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Stock Plans (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Schedule of Stock Compensation Expense | Stock compensation expense, included in Selling, general and administrative expense in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, is as follows:
|  |  | Three Months Ended March 31,
(In thousands) |  |  |  |  | 2025 |  | 2024
Stock compensation expense |  |  |  |  | $ | 2,629 |  |  | $ | 4,187 |
Income tax benefit |  |  |  |  | 649 |  |  | 1,026 |
Stock compensation expense, net of tax |  |  |  |  | $ | 1,980 |  |  | $ | 3,161 |
We have not capitalized any stock-based compensation expense.
Summary of Stock Option Activity | A summary of stock option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025, is as follows:
| Shares |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price
Outstanding at January 1, 2025 | 15,018 |  |  | $ | 45.10 |
Exercised | (5,173) |  |  | 44.50 |
Outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2025 | 9,845 |  |  | $ | 45.41 |
Summary of Restricted Stock and Unit Activity | A summary of restricted stock activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025, is as follows:
| Shares |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2025 | 179,584 |  |  | $ | 150.39 |
Granted | 55,124 |  |  | 159.70 |
Vested | (31,277) |  |  | 138.81 |
Forfeited | (7,648) |  |  | 153.94 |
Unvested at March 31, 2025 | 195,783 |  |  | $ | 154.72 |
Schedule of Fair Value Assumptions for Units | The following weighted average assumptions were used in estimating the fair value of the performance stock units granted in the first quarter of 2025.
Fair value per unit | $160.54 |  |  |
Risk-free interest rate | 4.28% |  |  |
Expected dividend yield | 1.14% |  |  |
Expected volatility | 25.3% |  |  |
MSA stock beta | 0.744 |  |  |
Summary of Performance Stock Unit Activity | A summary of performance stock unit activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025, is as follows:
| Shares |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at January 1, 2025 | 161,996 |  |  | $ | 146.50 |
Granted | 55,405 |  |  | 160.54 |
Performance adjustments(a) | 64,457 |  |  | 143.49 |
Vested | (118,605) |  |  | 143.47 |
Forfeited | (15,852) |  |  | 154.55 |
Unvested at March 31, 2025 | 147,401 |  |  | $ | 152.03 |
(a)Performance adjustments relate primarily to the final number of shares issued for the 2022 performance unit awards which vested in the first quarter of 2025 at 220% of the target award based on both cumulative performance against EBITDA margin and revenue growth targets and MSA's total shareholder return during the three-year performance period.

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