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Note 9 - Stock-based Incentive Plans | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements |
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Text Block] | 9. STOCK-BASED INCENTIVE PLANS Restricted Stock In 2016, the Company’s stockholders approved the Natural Health Trends Corp. 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”) to replace its 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. The 2016 Plan allows for the grant of various equity awards including incentive stock options, non-statutory options, stock, stock units, stock appreciation rights and other similar equity-based awards to the Company’s employees, officers, non-employee directors, contractors, consultants and advisors of the Company. Up to 2,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (subject to adjustment under certain circumstances) may be issued pursuant to awards granted. At December 31, 2025, 1,129,047 shares remained available for issuance under the 2016 Plan. On February 6, 2023, the Company granted 97,900 shares of restricted common stock to certain of its employees. The shares vested in equal parts on a quarterly basis over the next three years and were subject to forfeiture in the event of an employee's termination of service to the Company under specified circumstances. No shares of restricted common stock remained outstanding as of December 31, 2025. The following table summarizes the Company’s restricted stock activity under the 2016 Plan:
|  | Shares |  |  | Wtd. Avg. Price at Date of Issuance |
Nonvested at December 31, 2023 |  |  | 62,320 |  |  | $ | 4.84 |
Vested |  |  | (29,946 | ) |  | $ | 4.84 |
Forfeited |  |  | (3,698 | ) |  | $ | 4.84 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2024 |  |  | 28,676 |  |  | $ | 4.84 |
Vested |  |  | (28,676 | ) |  | $ | 4.84 |
Nonvested at December 31, 2025 |  |  | — |  |  | $ | — |
Share-based compensation expense of $132,000 and $145,000 was recognized during 2025 and 2024, respectively. Phantom Equity In 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors approved and adopted a Phantom Equity Plan (the “Phantom Plan”). Under the terms of the Phantom Plan, the Board of Directors' Compensation Committee may grant to the Company’s employees, officers, directors, contractors, consultants, or advisors awards of phantom shares entitling grantees the right to receive a cash payment equal to the fair market value of an equal number of shares of the Company’s common stock upon the close of a vesting period, subject to any maximum payment value that the Compensation Committee may set. The vesting of phantom shares is subject to such vesting conditions as the Compensation Committee may specify in a grantee’s award agreement. Grantees of phantom shares do not by virtue of their receipt of phantom shares have any ownership rights in shares of the Company’s common stock. The Phantom Plan shall continue for a period of ten years, after which no further phantom shares may be awarded (although any phantom shares awarded prior to the expiration of such 10-year period shall be unaffected by the termination of the Phantom Plan). On February 7, 2023, the Company granted 212,937 phantom shares to certain of the Company’s employees and its non-employee directors. The phantom shares vested in eight equal three-month vesting increments, subject to the satisfaction of both a time-based vesting condition and a performance vesting condition. Both of these vesting conditions were deemed satisfied on the grant date for the initial vesting increment. In order for the time-based vesting condition to be satisfied for each vesting period, the grantee must have remained continuously employed by, or be otherwise continuously providing services to, the Company through the end of the vesting period, and in order for the performance vesting condition to be satisfied for each performance period, the performance criteria designated by the Compensation Committee must have been satisfied. The initial performance vesting condition was designated by the Compensation Committee and applied to all future performance periods. If either vesting condition was not satisfied for a vesting date, then the phantom shares scheduled to vest on such date were forfeited. These phantom shares were subject to a maximum payment value of $12.00 per phantom share. Of the phantom shares awarded in 2023, 186,320 phantom shares vested and 26,617 were forfeited. On April 1, 2025, awards for 223,307 phantom shares were granted to the Company’s employees and its non-employee directors. Each award has a vesting period of two years, with 12.5% of the award eligible to vest in each of the eight calendar quarters during the vesting period, beginning with the second quarter of 2025, subject to satisfaction of the conditions outlined below. For awards to vest as to a particular quarter, the employee or director must be continuously employed by (or in the case of directors, providing services to) the Company for the entire quarter. The awards are subject to a maximum payment value of $12.00 per phantom share, and the grantees are not entitled to any dividend or dividend equivalent payments with respect to the awards. As a condition to the grant of the awards to each employee grantee, the grantee agreed not to sell or otherwise transfer any shares of the Company’s common stock held by him or her until all phantom shares subject to the award are vested or forfeited. One-half of the award eligible to vest in each calendar quarter (the “Financial Results-Based Award”, representing 6.25% of the aggregate award amount) will vest if the service condition is met for the quarter and if the Company attains positive operating profit for the quarter of at least $150,000. If these conditions are not met, the Financial Results-Based Award for the quarter will be forfeited. The other half of the award eligible to vest in each calendar quarter (the “Stock Appreciation-Based Award”, or 6.25% of the aggregate award amount) will vest if the service condition is met for the quarter and if two additional conditions are satisfied: (a) a stock appreciation condition, which will be satisfied if the average closing price of the Company’s common stock over the last month of the applicable quarter exceeds the average closing price of the Company’s common stock over the last month of the previous calendar year; and (b) an additional financial performance condition, which will be satisfied if the Company attains positive operating profit for the quarter of at least $300,000. If the stock appreciation condition is not met for the applicable quarter, the Stock Appreciation-Based Award for the quarter will be forfeited. If the stock appreciation condition is met for this portion of the award but the additional financial performance condition is not met for the quarter, the Stock Appreciation-Based Award for the quarter will not be forfeited but will be carried forward to a future quarter during the two-year vesting period of the award. Any portion of an award carried forward may vest at the end of a subsequent quarter during the two-year vesting period if the Company’s operating profit for that quarter exceeds by $150,000 the sum of (a) the amount necessary to satisfy the Financial Results-Based Award for the quarter (i.e. $150,000), (b) the additional amount, if any, used to satisfy the additional financial performance condition for a Stock Appreciation-Based Award that vests for the quarter (i.e., $150,000 if the current quarter’s Stock Appreciation-Based Award vests, or $0 if it does not vest) and (c) the additional amount, if any used to satisfy the vesting conditions of any other carried-forward awards to which this test is previously applied. Of the phantom shares awarded in 2025, 83,739 phantom shares were forfeited and 139,568 shares remain unvested as of December 31, 2025. The phantom share awards are accounted for as liabilities in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation since they require cash settlement. Compensation expense is recognized over the requisite service period if it is probable that the performance vesting condition will be achieved. The fair value of the liability incurred is remeasured at the end of each reporting period with any changes in fair value recognized as compensation expense over the requisite service period. As a result of the vesting of phantom shares, the Company recognized compensation expense related to the cash settlement of such shares of $475,000 during 2024. No compensation expense was recognized related to the cash settlement of such shares during 2025.

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