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3. Stock Options
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of FASB Statement No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, for its stock-based compensation plans. The Company previously accounted for these plans under the recognition and measurement principles of APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations and disclosure requirements established by SFAS 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. In this regard, these options have been granted to individuals who are the Companys officers, and who would qualify as leased employees under FASB Interpretation No. 44 (FIN 44), Accounting for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation, an Interpretation of APB Opinion No. 25.
Under APB 25, no expense was recorded in the income statement for the Companys stock options. The pro forma effects on income for stock options were instead disclosed in a footnote to the financial statements. Under SFAS 123(R), all share-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the award, and is recognized as an expense in the income statement over an employees requisite service period.
The Company adopted SFAS 123(R) using the modified prospective method. Under this transition method, compensation cost recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2006 includes the cost for all stock-based payments granted prior to, but not yet vested, as of January 1, 2006. This cost was based on the grant-date fair value estimated in accordance with the original provisions of SFAS 123. For the three months ended March 31, 2006 the Company recorded stock option compensation expense of $46,216, using an estimated weighted average fair value of $1.26 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, based on options issued from date of inception forward, and the following weighted-average assumptions: divided yield of 5.07%, risk-free interest rate of 2.61%, expected volatility factor of 18.15%, and expected lives of 3 years.
The following table illustrates the effect on net income and earnings per share as if the company had applied the fair-value recognition provisions of SFAS 123 to stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance units and restricted stock units for periods prior to adoption of SFAS 123(R).
The stock-based compensation expense under the fair value method, as reported in the above table, was computed using an estimated weighted average fair value of $1.29 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, based on options issued from date of inception forward, and the following weighted-average assumptions: dividend yield of 4.99%, risk-free interest rate of 2.54%, expected volatility factor of 18.40%, and expected lives of 3 years.
As of March 31, 2006, there was approximately $61,000 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock-based compensation awards granted. That cost is expected to be recognized over the next 1.3 years.
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At March 31, 2006, 916,000 options were outstanding with exercise prices ranging from $15 to $16.85 with terms of ten years.
A summary of the status of the Companys 2003 Equity Incentive Plan for the three months ended March 31, 2006 is as follows:
The following table is a summary of all notes issued to employees for the exercise of stock options:
These notes were recorded as loans to employees in the equity section of the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As of March 31, 2006, approximately $432,000 of indebtedness was owed by current employees to the Company, and no current or former directors or executive officers had any loans outstanding.
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