SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

The Company maintains share-based compensation plans under the shareholder-approved 2011 Plan. The purpose of the share-based compensation plans is to provide officers, employees, and non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company with additional incentive to further the success of the Company. At March 31, 2019, 881,920 shares of the common stock of the Company were reserved to be issued and 466,759 shares were available to be issued.

The 2011 Plan incentive awards may consist of grants of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, deferred stock units and performance shares. All employees of the Company and its present or future subsidiaries, and members of the Board of Directors of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, are eligible to participate in the 2011 Plan. The 2011 Plan allows for the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors to determine the type of incentive to be awarded, its term, manner of exercise, vesting of awards and restrictions on shares. Generally, awards are nonqualified under the IRC, unless the awards are deemed to be incentive awards to employees at the Compensation Committee’s discretion.

The table below presents a summary of nonvested restricted shares activity for the three months ended March 31, 2019.


	Shares	Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Nonvested shares, beginning of year	275,412	$	20.33
Granted	67,793	19.35
Forfeited	(700)	23.75
Vested	(23,405)	17.69
Nonvested shares, at period end	319,100	$	20.31

The following table presents restricted shares compensation expense, with tax benefit information, and fair value of shares vested, for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018.


	Three months ended March 31,
(Dollars in thousands)	2019		2018
Restricted share award expense	$	496	$	477
Restricted share award tax benefit	110		128
Fair value of shares vested	444		397

The unrecognized compensation expense related to the share awards totaled $2,803,000 at March 31, 2019 and $2,115,000 at December 31, 2018. The unrecognized compensation expense at March 31, 2019 is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.0 years.

The following table presents a summary of outstanding stock options at March 31, 2019. There was no activity in outstanding stock options in the three months ended March 31, 2019.


	Shares	Weighted Average Exercise Price




Options outstanding and exercisable	40,984	$	24.34

The exercise price of each option equals the market price of the Company’s stock on the grant date. An option’s maximum term is ten years. All options are fully vested upon issuance. The following table presents information pertaining to options outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2019.


Range of Exercise Prices	Number Outstanding	Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)	Weighted Average Exercise Price
$21.14 - $24.99	31,519	1.15	$	21.51
$25.00 - $34.99	2,792	1.01	25.76

$35.00 - $37.59	6,673	0.31	37.10

$21.14 - $37.59	40,984	1.01	$	24.34

Outstanding and exercisable options had no intrinsic value at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

The Company maintains an employee stock purchase plan to provide employees of the Company an opportunity to purchase Company common stock. Eligible employees may purchase shares in an amount that does not exceed 10% of their annual salary, at the lower of 95% of the fair market value of the shares on the semi-annual offering date or related purchase date. The Company reserved 350,000 shares of its common stock to be issued under the employee stock purchase plan. At March 31, 2019, 170,461 shares were available to be issued.

The following table presents information for the employee stock purchase plan for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018.


	Three months ended March 31,
(Dollars in thousands except share information)	2019		2018
Shares purchased	3,004		2,956
Weighted average price of shares purchased	$	18.96	$	23.47
Compensation expense recognized	3		4
Tax benefits	1		1

The Company issues new shares or treasury shares, depending on market conditions, in its share-based compensation plans.