SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

11. SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

The Company has issued restricted stock to employees and nonemployee directors generally with terms ranging up to seven years. The fair value is equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. Expense for restricted stock is amortized ratably over the vesting period. The following table summarizes the restricted stock activity:

		Weighed-Average
	Shares	Grant Date Fair Value
Unvested at December 31, 2012	149,667	$	8.21
Granted	365,856		25.12
Vested	(122,000)		7.24
Forfeited	-		-
Unvested at December 31, 2013	393,523	$	24.23

The total share-based compensation expense charged against income during the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 were $3,209,000, $2,850,000, and $2,524,000, respectively. Included in share-based compensation expense for 2013 is $912,000 for 63,750 shares of performance awards to be issued to certain key employees based on achieving 2013 financial plan, 48,750 shares of these performance awards also have a one year vesting requirement. The Company intends to issue additional performance awards in 2014 to certain key employees if certain 2014 financial plans are met. During 2013, the Company issued 297,000 restricted stock awards to certain key employees vesting over 5 - 7 years. The Company issued an additional 20,106 awards throughout the year to members of the Board of Directors to vest over a one year period. The total income tax benefit recognized in the consolidated statement of income for these restricted stock awards was approximately $1,123,000, $969,000 and $986,000 for the years ending December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively. The tax benefit recognized in additional paid-in capital upon vesting of restricted stock awards was approximately $383,000, $1,265,000 and $614,000 for the years ending December 31, 2013, 2012, 2011, respectively. There was approximately $7.4 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2013. The cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 4.3 years.

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The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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