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Stock Based Compensation
9 Months Ended
Oct. 02, 2015
Stock Based Compensation [Abstract]  
Stock Based Compensation

8. Stock Based Compensation

During the nine months ended October 2, 2015, the Company issued 730,237 restricted stock units at a weighted average grant-date fair value of $8.36 per share. As of October 2, 2015, the Company had 2,185,728 restricted stock units outstanding at a weighted average grant-date fair value of $6.73 per share. As of October 2, 2015,  $8.1 million of total restricted stock unit compensation expense related to unvested awards had not been recognized and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1.95 years. 

During the quarter ended October 2, 2015, 483,051 shares of common stock subject to vesting requirements were granted for the settlement of the contingent earn-out consideration related to the 2014 acquisition of Technolab.  As of October 2, 2015, the Company had 747,525 shares of common stock subject to vesting requirements outstanding at a weighted average grant-date fair value of $8.77 per share. As of October 2, 2015,  $4.5 million of compensation expense related to common stock subject to vesting requirements had not been recognized and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2.9 years.

On February 8, 2012, the Compensation Committee approved the fiscal year 2012 through 2015 equity compensation target for the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Under this target, a single performance-based option grant was made to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of 1,912,500 options and 1,004,063 options, respectively, totaling 2,916,563 options, each with an exercise price of $4.00 and a fair value of $1.31.  One-half of the options would have vested upon the achievement of at least 50% growth of pro forma earnings per share and the remaining half would have vested upon the achievement of at least 50% pro forma EBITDA growth. Each metric could have been achieved at any time during the six-year term of the award based on a trailing twelve month period measured quarterly. The grants would have expired if neither target were achieved during the six-year term. The base year for the performance calculation was fiscal 2011 for both pro forma earnings per share and pro forma EBITDA performance targets.

In March of 2013, these performance-based stock option grants were surrendered by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer and replaced with performance-based SARs, equal to the number of options. The terms and conditions and the specific performance targets applicable to the SARs are the same as those applicable to the replaced options, with the exception that the SARs will be settled in cash, stock or any combination thereof, at the Company’s discretion.

Subsequent to year end 2014, in connection with the Company’s achievement of over 50% growth of pro forma net earnings per share since fiscal 2011 base year and upon the approval of the Audit Committee’s review of the Company’s 2014 financial statements and Annual Report on Form 10-K, 50% of the outstanding SARs awards granted to the CEO and COO became vested. In the third quarter of 2015, the Company recorded $1.3 million of compensation expense related to the SARs awards tied to the pro forma EBITDA performance target, which represented 50% of the total non-cash compensation expense assuming the awards fully vest. These awards have not yet vested.