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EQUITY PLANS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
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The Company has two equity incentive plans: the 2010 BLB Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Stock Option Plan (the “2010 Option Plan”) and the 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (“2015 Incentive Plan”).

The 2010 Option Plan provided for options to acquire 2,455,368 shares of the Company’s common stock. Options granted to employees, officers and directors of the Company under the 2010 Option Plan vested on various schedules by individual as defined in the individual participants’ option agreements. Vested options can generally be exercised all or in part at any time until the tenth anniversary of the date of grant. Effective December 9, 2015, it was determined that no new awards would be granted under the 2010 Option Plan.

The 2015 Incentive Plan provides for the grant of stock options, RSAs, RSUs and other stock-based awards (including those with performance-based vesting criteria) to employees, directors or consultants of the Company. The 2015 Incentive Plan provides for the issuance of up to 1,700,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. As of December 31, 2020, 576,076 shares were available for grant under the 2015 Incentive Plan.

The Company recognized total share-based compensation expense of $17.7 million and $3.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, compared to a benefit of $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. The increase in share-based compensation expense was directly attributable to the Company’s annual grant of restricted stock awards to eligible employees and executive management which occurred during the first quarter of 2020 with one-third of the restricted stock award vesting during the first quarter of 2020 and one-third vesting at the end of the 2020 year. Additionally, the Company issued other stock based awards (“OSBAs”) to eligible employees in the form of immediately vested common stock on December 30, 2020. See “Other Stock Based Awards” section below.

The total income tax benefit (expense) for share-based compensation arrangements was $6.9 million, $0.9 million, and $(0.4) million, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

As of December 31, 2020, there was $15.3 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to outstanding share-based compensation arrangements (including stock options, RSA, RSU and PSU arrangements) which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.4 years.
Stock Options

Stock option activity under the 2010 Option Plan for the year ended December 31, 2020 is as follows:
 SharesWeighted
Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual TermAggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2019109,564 $4.31 
Exercised(19,564)$4.31 
Outstanding at December 31, 202090,000 $4.31 2.7 years$4.1  million
Exercisable at December 31, 202090,000 $4.31 2.7 years$4.1  million

There were no stock options granted during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 or 2018.

The total intrinsic value of options exercised or unvested options put to the Company (see discussions below) and cancelled was $0.4 million and $40.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2018, respectively. There were no options exercised for the year ended December 31, 2019.
All stock option awards were vested as of December 31, 2017. Accordingly, there was no remaining compensation cost relating to unvested stock options as of December 31, 2020, 2019 or 2018.

Exercises and Related Notes Receivable and Puts

In July and November 2015, certain employees and directors exercised a combined total of 1,864,428 outstanding stock options (the “Financed Options”) and executed promissory notes to TRMG in connection with those exercises to finance the exercise price and associated income taxes. The notes are considered nonrecourse for accounting purposes. As such, (i) the purchases of common stock with a promissory note continued to be accounted for as stock options and (ii) no receivable for amounts due under the promissory notes for the exercise price of the Financed Options were recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

On August 19, 2015, all previously issued option agreements under the 2010 Option Plan were amended (the “Put Amendment”), allowing the participant to request purchase by the Company (“Put”) during April or October each year beginning in 2016 (“Put Periods”) of up to one-third of any previously issued shares or vested but unexercised options under the 2010 Option Plan for Fair Market Value, as defined therein, less the applicable exercise price in the case of vested but unexercised options. Participants seeking to exercise the Put were required to be employed by the Company or serving as a director of the Company at the time of the request. Any purchases by the Company during a Put Period were subject to limitations contained in the credit agreements related to the Company’s indebtedness that were outstanding at the time. In March 2018, the Company revised the Put Periods from April and October to four periods in each year, subject to anticipated blackout periods. In December 2018, all outstanding options under the 2010 Option Plan were amended to remove the Put rights.

Certain employees and directors Put a total of 331,112 Financed Options to the Company at $23.50 per share and paid the related promissory notes with a portion of the proceeds during the year ended December 31, 2018. The shares were included in Treasury stock in the consolidated balance sheets after the respective Put dates. During the year ended December 31, 2018, in addition to the Put shares discussed above, promissory notes related to 1,439,984 Financed Options were paid. On the date the promissory notes are paid, the options are considered exercised and the common stock is considered issued for accounting purposes. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, there were no Financed Options outstanding.

Exercises for Cash and Puts of Unexercised Options

During 2017, 13,336 vested but unexercised options were Put to the Company at $24.38 per share and 54,976 options were exercised, with cash paid for the exercise price. During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019, no vested but unexercised options were Put to the Company and no options, excluding the Financed Options, were exercised.
In December 2018, when the Put rights were removed, the awards were reclassified from liability classified awards to equity classified awards. Upon the modification of the awards, the intrinsic value of the outstanding stock options of $2.9 million was moved from the stock options liability to additional paid in capital in the consolidated balance sheets. For the year ended December 31, 2018 the Company recorded a reduction to compensation expense of $3.2 million to adjust the stock options to the intrinsic value as of the date the stock options were exercised or reclassified to equity classified awards.
Restricted Stock Units and Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units

Under the 2015 Incentive Plan, RSUs and PSUs have been awarded to eligible employees, members of the Company’s senior management and certain members of its Board of Directors. Each RSU and PSU represents the right to receive one share of the Company’s common stock. RSUs generally vest in one-third increments over a three year period, and compensation cost is recognized over the respective service periods based on the grant date fair value. PSUs generally vest over a two or three year period depending on the individual award agreement and become eligible for vesting upon attainment of performance objectives for the performance period. The number of PSUs that may become eligible for vesting varies and is dependent upon whether the performance targets are met, partially met or exceeded each year. The fair value of RSUs and PSUs issued subsequent to the Company becoming publicly traded in 2019 are determined based on the number of units granted and the quoted price of the Company’s common stock as of the grant date. Refer to “Valuation of Equity Compensation Awards” below for the valuation methodology used for awards issued prior to 2019.

Under the terms of the above awards, shares of the Company’s stock are issued upon vesting of the awards, unless deferral is elected by the participant at the time of the award. The Company removed the Put rights from the award agreements in December 2018; prior to that time, at the election of the participant, issued shares could be Put to the Company at fair value during any Put Period that was at least three years following the vesting date.

Equity-Classified Awards
The following summary presents information of equity-classified RSU and PSU activity for the year ended December 31, 2020:
 Restricted Stock
Units
Performance
Stock Units
Weighted
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
Outstanding at December 31, 201976,343 53,613 $28.57 
Granted762,670 48,209 31.27 
Vested(422,962)(53,617)26.17 
Forfeited(1,642)(16,727)26.52 
Outstanding at December 31, 2020414,409 31,478 $36.12 

The weighted average grant date fair value for RSUs and PSUs was $31.27, $30.68, and $27.15 in 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively.

The total intrinsic value of RSUs vested, but not deferred, during the year ended December 31, 2020 was $23.7 million, $5.4 million and $0.6 million, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
For PSU awards, performance objectives for each year are established no later than 90 days following the start of the year. As the performance targets have not yet been established for the PSUs that are eligible to be earned in 2021, a grant date has not yet been established for those awards in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation. The grant date for the 2020, 2019 and 2018 performance periods have been established and, based upon achievement of the performance criteria for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, 31,478 and 48,525 PSUs, respectively, became eligible for vesting. For the 2018 performance period the Company did not achieve the performance target, thus no shares became eligible to vest.
Liability-Classified Awards
On January 1, 2018, the Company granted RSU’s to certain employees with a cash settlement feature. The actual amount of cash will be determined by the number of RSUs to be settled in cash multiplied by the share price of the Company’s common stock at the time of settlement. These awards vest in one-third increments as of December 31, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
The following summary presents liability-classified RSU activity for the year ended December 31, 2020:
Restricted
Stock Units
Weighted
Average
Grant
Date Fair
Value
Outstanding at December 31, 20199,572 $25.50 
Vested and settled for cash(9,572)25.50 
Forfeited— 25.50 
Outstanding at December 31, 2020— $25.50 
The 9,572 cash-settled vested RSUs were settled for $0.5 million cash in January 2021 and 9,568 cash-settled vested RSUs were settled for $0.2 million of cash in January 2020.

Other Stock Based Awards

On December 30, 2020, the Company issued OSBAs in the form of immediately vested common stock to eligible employees, members of the Company’s senior management and certain members of its Board of Directors under the 2015 Incentive Plan. These OSBAs were awarded in recognition of the strategic accomplishments of individuals and the Company as a whole for fiscal 2020 in lieu of potential cash incentive compensation. The Company elected to utilize stock as form of compensation in an effort to preserve liquidity for the Company in light of COVID-19 and its impact on operations. Total net shares awarded on December 30, 2020 were 131,046 and the associated expense recognized was $6.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.

Valuation of Equity Compensation Awards

Prior to the Company becoming publicly traded in 2019, the fair values of the shares of common stock underlying the Company’s liability classified awards, RSUs and PSUs were estimated on each grant date by the Board of Directors. In order to determine the fair value, the Company’s Board of Directors considered, among other things, valuations of its common stock in accordance with the guidance provided by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 2013 Practice Aid, Valuation of Privately Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, or the Practice Aid. Given the absence of a public trading market of the Company’s common stock, its Board of Directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered a number of objective and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of the fair value of its common stock. The Board of Directors used an income approach, weighted 50%, and a market approach, weighted 50%.

For the income approach, the Company performed a discounted cash flow analysis, which utilized projected cash flows as well as a residual value, which were discounted to the present value in order to arrive at an enterprise value. The Company relied on the following key assumptions for the income approach, in addition to management projections for the business:
a weighted average cost of capital (WACC), which served as the discount rate applied to forecasted future cash flows to calculate the present value of those cash flows; and
a long-term growth rate assumption, which was used to calculate the residual value of the Company before discounting to present value.
For the market approach, the Company utilized the guideline company method and comparable transaction method by analyzing separately a population of comparable companies and comparable transactions and selected those companies considered to be the most comparable to the Company in terms of business description, size, growth, profitability, risk and return on investment, among other factors. The Company then used these guideline companies and comparable transactions to develop relevant market multiples and ratios, which were applied to the corresponding latest twelve months and forward financials to estimate total enterprise value. The Company relied on the following key assumptions for the market approach:
the Company’s projected financial results determined as of the valuation date based on its best estimates; and
multiples of enterprise value to EBITDA, determined as of the valuation date, based on a group of comparable companies and comparable transactions.