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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION: (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
Schedule of stock-based compensation activity, by award type | The Company's stock-based compensation activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018, by award type, was (dollars in millions):
|  | For the nine months ended |  |
|  | December 31, |  |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Stock options |  | $ | 2.6 |  | $ | 4.0
Performance stock options |  | 0.2 |  | 0.9
Restricted stock units |  | 34.6 |  | 21.6
Arbor acquisition consideration holdback |  | 11.5 |  | 11.5
Pacific Data Partners assumed performance plan |  | 11.8 |  | —
Other non-employee stock-based compensation |  | 0.9 |  | 0.9
Total non-cash stock-based compensation included in the condensed consolidated statements of operations |  | 61.6 |  | 38.9
Less expense related to liability-based equity awards |  | (10.8) |  | —
Stock-based compensation of discontinued operations |  | 62.9 |  | 7.8
Total non-cash stock-based compensation included in the condensed consolidated statement of equity |  | $ | 113.7 |  | $ | 46.7
Schedule of option activity | Stock option activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  |  |  | Weighted-average |  |
|  |  |  | Weighted-average |  | remaining |  | Aggregate
|  | Number of |  | exercise price |  | contractual term |  | Intrinsic value
|  | shares |  | per share |  | (in years) |  | (in thousands)
Outstanding at March 31, 2018 |  | 2,456,184 |  | $ | 13.30 |  |  |  |
Exercised |  | (870,453) |  | $ | 11.22 |  |  |  | $ | 27,517
Forfeited or canceled |  | (25,591) |  | $ | 18.64 |  |  |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2018 |  | 1,560,140 |  | $ | 14.37 |  | 4.8 |  | $ | 37,850
Exercisable at December 31, 2018 |  | 1,378,721 |  | $ | 15.27 |  | 4.5 |  | $ | 32,210
Summary of stock options outstanding and exercisable | A summary of stock options outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  |  |  | Options outstanding |  |  |  |  |  | Options exercisable |  |
Range of |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Weighted-average |  | Weighted-average |  |  |  | Weighted-average
exercise price |  |  |  |  |  | Options |  | remaining |  | exercise price |  | Options |  | exercise price
per share |  |  |  |  |  | outstanding |  | contractual life |  | per share |  | exercisable |  | per share
$ | 0.61 |  | — |  | $ | 9.99 |  | 304,455 |  | 5.3 years |  | $ | 1.45 |  | 192,111 |  | $ | 1.46
$ | 10.00 |  | — |  | $ | 19.99 |  | 732,241 |  | 3.9 years |  | $ | 14.78 |  | 662,833 |  | $ | 14.50
$ | 20.00 |  | — |  | $ | 24.99 |  | 523,444 |  | 5.8 years |  | $ | 21.31 |  | 523,444 |  | $ | 21.31
|  |  |  |  |  | 1,560,140 |  | 4.8 years |  | $ | 14.37 |  | 1,378,388 |  | $ | 15.27
Schedule of performance stock option unit activity | Performance stock option unit activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  |  |  | Weighted-average |  |
|  |  |  | Weighted-average |  | remaining |  | Aggregate
|  | Number |  | exercise price |  | contractual term |  | intrinsic value
|  | of shares |  | per share |  | (in years) |  | (in thousands)
Outstanding at March 31, 2018 |  | 322,823 |  | $ | 21.42 |  |  |  |
Forfeited or canceled |  | (187,885) |  | $ | 21.41 |  |  |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2018 |  | 134,938 |  | $ | 21.44 |  | 1.4 |  | $ | 2,320
Exercisable at December 31, 2018 |  | — |  | $ | — |  | — |  | $ | —
Schedule of time-vesting restricted stock unit activity | Time-vesting restricted stock unit activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  | Weighted-average |  |
|  |  |  | fair value per |  | Weighted-average
|  | Number |  | share at grant |  | remaining contractual
|  | of shares |  | date |  | term (in years)
Outstanding at March 31, 2018 |  | 2,702,497 |  | $ | 24.60 |  | 2.34
Granted |  | 1,877,874 |  | $ | 33.66 |  |
Vested |  | (1,363,871) |  | $ | 24.60 |  |
Forfeited or canceled |  | (265,878) |  | $ | 25.39 |  |
PSUs converted to RSUs in conjunction with AMS disposition |  | 1,017,422 |  | $ | 21.21 |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2018 |  | 3,968,044 |  | $ | 27.97 |  | 2.37
Schedule of non-vested performance-based restricted stock units activity | Non-vested performance-based restricted stock unit activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  | Weighted-average |  |
|  |  |  | fair value per |  | Weighted-average
|  | Number |  | share at grant |  | remaining contractual
|  | of shares |  | date |  | term (in years)
Outstanding at March 31, 2018 |  | 561,018 |  | $ | 25.68 |  | 2.53
Granted |  | 516,954 |  | $ | 40.82 |  |
Additional earned performance shares |  | 176 |  | $ | 23.89 |  |
Vested |  | (61,330) |  | $ | 24.22 |  |
Forfeited or canceled |  | (129,501) |  | $ | 25.15 |  |
PSUs converted to RSUs in conjunction with AMS disposition |  | (508,711) |  | $ | 28.08 |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2018 |  | 378,606 |  | $ | 43.55 |  | 3.45
Schedule of other performance unit activity | Other performance-based stock unit activity for the nine months ended December 31, 2018 was:
|  |  |  | Weighted-average |  |
|  |  |  | fair value per |  | Weighted-average
|  | Number |  | share at grant |  | remaining contractual
|  | of shares |  | date |  | term (in years)
Outstanding at March 31, 2018 |  | 111,111 |  | $ | 5.33 |  | -
Vested |  | (45,364) |  | $ | 5.33 |  |
Forfeited or canceled |  | (65,747) |  | $ | 5.33 |  |
Outstanding at December 31, 2018 |  | — |  | $ | — |  | -
Schedule Of Share Conversion | Share activity related to these conversions was:
|  |  |  | Continuing Operations |  | Discontinued Operations |  | Total Continuing and Discontinued Operations
TSR-based performance restricted stock units converted to time-based restricted stock units, by fiscal year granted: |  | Original Performance Maturity Date: |  |  |  |  |  |
Fiscal 2017 PSU |  | 3/31/2019 |  | (168,939) |  | (45,657) |  | (214,596)
Fiscal 2018 PSU |  | 3/31/2020 |  | (153,233) |  | (32,545) |  | (185,778)
Fiscal 2019 PSU |  | 3/31/2021 |  | (186,539) |  | (30,188) |  | (216,727)
Totals |  |  |  | (508,711) |  | (108,390) |  | (617,101)
Time-based restricted stock units converted from TSR-based performance restricted stock units |  | RSU Cliff Vest Date (Continuing Ops Only): |  |  |  |  |  |
Fiscal 2017 PSU |  | 3/31/2019 |  | 337,878 |  | 91,314 |  | 429,192
Fiscal 2018 PSU |  | 3/31/2020 |  | 306,466 |  | 65,090 |  | 371,556
Fiscal 2019 PSU |  | 3/31/2021 |  | 373,078 |  | 60,376 |  | 433,454
Totals |  |  |  | 1,017,422 |  | 216,780 |  | 1,234,202
Schedule Of Recognized Incremental and Accelerated Compensation Costs | The impact on compensation costs was (dollars in thousands):
|  | Continuing Operations |  | Discontinued Operations |  | Total Continuing and Discontinued Operations
Incremental compensation costs |  | $ | 7,179 |  | $ | 1,599 |  | $ | 8,778
Accelerated compensation costs of original grant date fair value related to immediate vesting of converted PSUs of AMS associates |  | $ | — |  | $ | 1,607 |  | $ | 1,607

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