Employee Stock Ownership Plan

The Company’s ESOP was established in 2000. The plan is a leveraged ESOP in which the Company is the lender. The loans will be repaid from the Company’s discretionary plan contributions over the original 15 year term with a variable rate of interest. The annual interest rate was 1.67% at June 30, 2015, which is updated on a quarterly basis.

Shares are held by the plan trustee for allocation among participants as the loan is repaid. The unencumbered shares are allocated to participants using a compensation-based formula. Subject to vesting requirements, allocated shares are owned by participants and shares are held by the plan trustee until the participant retires.

Historically, the Company used the dividends, if any, on ESOP shares to pay down the loans, and allocated to the ESOP participants shares equivalent to the fair market value of the dividends they would have received. No dividends were paid in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013.

The Company reports compensation expense equal to the fair market value of shares committed to be released to employees in the period in which they are committed. The cost of shares purchased by the ESOP which have not been committed to be released or allocated to participants are shown as a contra-equity account “Unearned ESOP Shares” and are excluded from earnings per share calculations.

During the fiscal years ended June 30, 2015, 2014 and 2013, the Company charged $4.4 million, $3.3 million and $2.1 million, respectively, to compensation expense related to the ESOP. The increase in ESOP expense in fiscal 2015 and 2014 compared to the prior years was due to the increase in the fair market value of the Company's shares which determines the ESOP expense recorded. The difference between cost and fair market value of committed to be released shares, which was $1.0 million, $0.3 million and $0.1 million for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively, is recorded as additional paid-in capital.



	June 30,
	2015		2014
Allocated shares	1,970,117		1,943,882
Committed to be released shares	172,398		175,429
Unallocated shares	390,528		562,926
Total ESOP shares	2,533,043		2,682,237

(In thousands)
Fair value of ESOP shares	$	59,527	$	57,963

As of and for the years ended June 30,

Loan amount (in thousands)