Equity Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2024

Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

SJW Group’s long-term incentive plans provide employees, non-employee board members or the board of directors of any parent or subsidiary, consultants, and other independent advisors who provide services to the company or subsidiary the opportunity to acquire an equity interest in SJW Group. SJW Group also maintains stock plans in connection with its acquisition of CTWS which are no longer granting new stock awards. In addition, shares are issued to employees under SJW Group’s employee stock purchase plan (“ESPP”). As of September 30, 2024, 187,810 shares are issuable upon the vesting of outstanding restricted stock units and deferred restricted stock units and an additional 1,038,040 shares are available for award issuances under the long-term incentive plans.

A summary of compensation costs charged to income, by award type, and proceeds from the ESPP, are presented below for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:


	Three months ended September 30,			Nine months ended September 30,
	2024		2023	2024		2023
Compensation costs charged to income:
ESPP	$	259	187	$	454	378
Restricted stock and deferred restricted stock	1,307		1,051	3,925		3,198
Total compensation costs charged to income	$	1,566	1,238	$	4,379	3,576
ESPP proceeds	$	1,087	1,061	$	2,188	2,141

Restricted Stock and Deferred Restricted Stock

For the three months ended September 30, 2024, there was no grant activity of service-based restricted stock awards. For the three months ended September 30, 2023, SJW Group granted 968 one-year and three-year service-based restricted stock awards with a weighted average grant date fair value per unit of $63.96. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, SJW Group granted 64,482 and 38,310, respectively, one-year and three-year service-based restricted stock awards with a weighted average grant date fair value per unit of $56.70 and $76.88, respectively.

For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, there was no grant activity of performance-based or market-based restricted stock awards. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, SJW Group granted 45,763 and 31,345 target units, respectively, of performance-based and market-based restricted stock awards with a weighted average grant date fair value per unit of $55.60 and $80.05, respectively. Based upon actual attainment relative to the target performance metric, the number of shares issuable can range between 0% to 150% of the target number of shares for performance-based restricted stock awards, or between 0% and 200% of the target number of shares for market-based restricted stock awards.

As of September 30, 2024, the total unrecognized compensation costs related to restricted and deferred restricted stock plans was $6,739. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.77 years.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The total unrecognized compensation costs related to the semi-annual offering period that ends January 31, 2025, for the ESPP is approximately $135. This cost is expected to be recognized during the fourth quarter of 2024.