Note 13: Equity Compensation Plans

Stock-based awards are outstanding under the Company’s 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2008 Plan”), the Company’s 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2014 Plan”), and the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan” and together with the 2008 Plan and the 2014 Plan, the “Plans”). The 2019 Plan was approved at the May 2019 annual stockholders’ meeting and the number of authorized shares under the 2019 Plan is fixed at 600,000. Following approval of the 2014 Plan, no further awards will be granted under the 2008 Plan or any other prior Company equity compensation plan, and following the approval of the 2019 Plan, no further awards will be granted under the 2014 Plan. The 2019 Plan authorizes the granting of qualified stock options, non-qualified stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, and stock appreciation rights (“SARs”). Awards may be granted to selected directors, officers, employees or eligible service providers under the 2019 Plan at the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. As of December 31, 2019, 447,781 shares remained available for issuance under the 2019 Plan.

The Company granted 16,500 stock options in 2009 under the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan, and there are no remaining outstanding stock options as of December 31, 2019. No stock options were granted in 2009 through 2019. There were 4,500 stock options exercised during 2019 and 2018, and no stock options exercised during 2017. At December 31, 2019, the Company had no unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock options as all stock options have fully vested.

A summary of stock option activity in the Plans for the year ending December 31, 2019, is as follows:


				Weighted-
		Weighted		Average
		Average		Remaining
		Exercise		Contractual	Aggregate
	Shares	per Price		Term (years)	Intrinsic Value
Beginning outstanding	4,500	$	7.49	0.1	$	25
Canceled	-		-	-		-
Exercised	(4,500)		7.49	-		(27)
Expired	-		-	-		-
Ending outstanding	-	$	-	-	$	-

Exercisable at end of period	-	$	-	-	$	-

A summary of stock option activity as of each year is as follows:


		2019		2018		2017
Intrinsic value of options exercised	$	27	$	27	$	-
Cash received from option exercises		32		33		-
Tax benefit realized from option exercises		5		5		-
Weighted average fair value of options granted		-		-		-

Generally, restricted stock and restricted stock units granted under the Plans vest three years from the grant date, but the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors has discretionary authority to change some terms including the amount of time until the vest date.

Under the 2019 Plan, unless otherwise provided in an award agreement, upon the occurrence of a change in control, all stock options and SARs then held by the participant will become fully exercisable immediately if, and all stock awards and cash incentive awards will become fully earned and vested immediately if, (i) the 2019 Plan is not an obligation of the successor entity following a change in control or (ii) the 2019 Plan is an obligation of the successor entity following a change in control and the participant incurs a termination of service without cause or for good reason following the change in control. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the vesting of an award is conditioned upon the achievement of performance measures, then such vesting will generally be subject to the following: if, at the time of the change in control, the performance measures are less than 50% attained (pro rata based upon the time of the period through the change in control), the award will become vested and exercisable on a fractional basis with the numerator being equal to the percentage of attainment and the denominator being 50%; and if, at the time of the change in control, the performance measures are at least 50% attained (pro rata based upon the time of the period through the change in control), the award will become fully earned and vested immediately upon the change in control.

The Company granted restricted stock under its equity compensation plans beginning in 2005 and it began granting restricted stock units in February 2009. Awards of restricted stock under the Plans generally entitle holders to voting and dividend rights upon grant and are subject to forfeiture until certain restrictions have lapsed including employment for a specific period. Awards of restricted stock units under the Plans are also subject to forfeiture until certain restrictions have lapsed including employment for a specific period, but do not entitle holders to voting rights until the restricted period ends and shares are transferred in connection with the units.

Total compensation cost that has been charged for the 2019 and 2014 Plan was $2.5 million, $2.3 million and $1.2 million the years ending December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

There were 171,356 restricted stock units granted during the year ending December 31, 2019. There were 254,281 restricted stock units granted the year ending December 31, 2018. Compensation expense is recognized over the vesting period of the restricted stock unit based on the market value of the award on the issue date.

A summary of changes in the Company’s unvested restricted awards for the year ending December 31, is as follows:


	2019
		Weighted
	Restricted	Average
	Stock Shares	Grant Date
	and Units	Fair Value
Unvested at January 1	552,281	$	11.30
Granted	171,356		12.75
Vested	(168,354)		7.68
Forfeited	-		-
Unvested at December 31	555,283	$	12.85

Total unrecognized compensation cost of restricted stock unit awards was $3.0 million as of December 31, 2019, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.83 years.