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| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block] |
Note 7 Stock-Based Compensation On February 28, 2017, the Board approved the recommendations of the Compensation Committee of the Board with respect to the granting of 2017 annual performance-based equity incentive awards in the form of long-term incentive plan, or LTIP units (the “Annual Awards”) and long-term performance-based LTIP awards (the “Long-Term Awards”) to the executive officers of the Company and other employees of the Company’s external manager who perform services for the Company (the “2017 Program”). The 2017 Program is a part of the Company’s 2016 Plan and therefore the Annual Awards and Long-Term Awards were granted pursuant to the 2016 Plan. The purpose of the 2016 Plan is to attract and retain qualified persons upon whom, in large measure, our sustained progress, growth and profitability depend, to motivate the participants to achieve long-term company goals and to more closely align the participants’ interests with those of the Company’s other stockholders by providing them with a proprietary interest in the Company’s growth and performance. The Company’s executive officers, employees, employees of our advisor and its affiliates, consultants and non-employee directors are eligible to participate in the 2016 Plan.
The Company granted LTIP units under the 2017 Program and experienced forfeitures during the three months ended March 31, 2017 as follows:
The Company granted LTIP units under the 2016 Plan during the year ended December 31, 2016 and experienced forfeitures during the three months ended March 31, 2017 as follows:
Under the 2016 Plan a total of 1,232,397 shares of common stock are available to be granted or issued in respect of other equity-based awards such as LTIP units. Shares subject to awards under the 2017 Program and the 2016 Plan that are forfeited, cancelled, lapsed, settled in cash or otherwise expired (excluding shares withheld to satisfy exercise prices or tax withholding obligations) will again be available for grant. The 2017 Program is administered by the Company’s compensation committee, which will interpret the 2017 Program and the Committee has broad discretion to select the eligible individuals to whom awards will be granted, as well as the type, size and terms and conditions of each award, including the fair market value of LTIP units, the exercise price of options, the number of shares subject to awards and the expiration date of, and the vesting schedule or other restrictions (including, without limitation, restrictive covenants) applicable to, awards. 2017 Program Of the 244,324 LTIP units that were granted under the 2017 Program (prior to forfeitures) during the three months ended March 31, 2017, an aggregate of 97,243 target LTIP units were awarded under the Annual Awards and an aggregate of 147,081 target LTIP units were awarded under the Long-Term Awards. All the 244,324 LTIP units were granted to non-employees. The number of target LTIP units comprising each Annual Award was based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock reported on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) on the date of grant (February 28, 2017) and the number of target LTIP Units comprising each Long-Term Award was based on the fair value of the Long-Term Awards as determined by an independent valuation consultant, in each case rounded to the next whole LTIP unit in order to eliminate fractional units. There was an aggregate of 2,662 forfeited units that will not be eligible to vest.
Annual Awards. The Annual Awards are subject to the terms and conditions of LTIP Annual Award Agreements (“LTIP Annual Award Agreements”) between the Company and each grantee. The Compensation Committee established various operating performance goals for calendar year 2017, as set forth in Exhibit A to the LTIP Annual Award Agreements (the “Performance Goals”), that will be used to determine the actual number of LTIP Units earned by each grantee under each LTIP Annual Award Agreement. As soon as reasonably practicable following the last day of the 2017 fiscal year, the Compensation Committee will determine the extent to which the Company has achieved the Performance Goals and, based on such determination, will calculate the number of LTIP Units that each grantee is entitled to receive under the grantee’s Annual Award based on the performance percentages described in the grantee’s LTIP Annual Award Agreement. Each grantee may earn up to 150% of the number of target LTIP units covered by the grantee’s Annual Award. Any target LTIP Units that are not earned will be forfeited and cancelled. The Company expenses the fair value of all unit awards in accordance with the fair value recognition requirements of ASC Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation, for “employees,” and ASC Topic 505, Equity, for “non-employees.” As the Annual Awards were granted to non-employees, in accordance with the provisions of ASC Topic 505, the Annual Awards utilize the grant date fair value for expense recognition; however, the accounting after the measurement date requires a fair value re-measurement each reporting period until the awards vest. Since these are performance based awards with no market condition, the closing price on the valuation date and revaluation date will be used for expense recognition purposes.
Long-Term Awards. The Long-Term Awards are subject to the terms and conditions of LTIP Long-Term Award Agreements (“LTIP Long-Term Award Agreements”) between the Company and each grantee. The number of LTIP Units that each grantee is entitled to earn under the LTIP Long-Term Award Agreements will be determined following the conclusion of a three-year performance period based on the Company’s total shareholder return, which is determined based on a combination of appreciation in stock price and dividends paid during the performance period (“TSR”). Each grantee may earn up to 200% of the number of target LTIP units covered by the grantee’s Long-Term Award. Any target LTIP Units that are not earned will be forfeited and cancelled. The number of LTIP Units earned under the Long-Term Awards will be determined as soon as reasonably practicable following the end of the three-year performance period based on the Company’s TSR on an absolute basis (as to 75% of the Long-Term Award) and relative to the SNL Healthcare REIT Index (as to 25% of the Long-Term Award). As the Long-Term Awards were granted to non-employees and involved market-based performance conditions, in accordance with the provisions of ASC Topic 505, the Long-Term Awards utilize a Monte Carlo simulation to provide a grant date fair value for expense recognition; however, the accounting after the measurement date requires a fair value re-measurement each reporting period until the awards vest. The fair value re-measurement will be performed by calculating a Monte Carlo produced fair value at the conclusion of each reporting period until vesting. The Monte Carlo simulation is a generally accepted statistical technique used, in this instance, to simulate a range of possible future stock prices for the Company and the members of the SNL Healthcare REIT Index (the “Index”) over the Performance Period (February 28, 2017 to February 27, 2020). The purpose of this modeling is to use a probabilistic approach for estimating the fair value of the performance share award for purposes of accounting under ASC Topic 718. ASC Topic 505 does not provide guidance on how to derive a fair value, so the valuation defaults to that described in ASC Topic 718. The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo simulation include beginning average stock price, valuation date stock price, expected volatilities, correlation coefficients, risk-free rate of interest, and expected dividend yield. The beginning average stock price is the beginning average stock price for the Company and each member of the Index for the 5 trading days leading up to February 28, 2017. The valuation date stock price is the closing stock price of the Company and each of the peer companies in the Index on February 28, 2017 for the grant date fair value, and the closing stock price on March 31, 2017 for revaluation. The expected volatilities are modeled using the historical volatilities for the Company and the members of the Index. The correlation coefficients are calculated using the same data as the historical volatilities. The risk-free rate of interest is taken from the U.S. Treasury website, and relates to the expected life of the remaining performance period on valuation or revaluation. Lastly, the dividend yield assumption is 0.0%, which is mathematically equivalent to reinvesting dividends in the issuing entity, which is part of the Company’s award agreement assumptions.
Vesting. LTIP units that are earned as of the end of the applicable performance period will be subject to forfeiture restrictions that will lapse (“vesting”), subject to continued employment through each vesting date, in two installments as follows: 50% of the earned LTIP units will vest upon being earned as of the end of the applicable performance period and the remaining 50% will vest on the first anniversary of the date on which such LTIP units are earned.
Distributions. Pursuant to both the LTIP Annual Award Agreements and LTIP Long-Term Award Agreements, distributions equal to the dividends declared and paid by the Company will accrue during the applicable performance period on the maximum number of LTIP Units that the grantee could earn and will be paid with respect to all of the earned LTIP Units at the conclusion of the applicable performance period, in cash or by the issuance of additional LTIP Units at the discretion of the Compensation Committee 2016 Plan Of the aggregate 414,504 LTIP units that were granted under the 2016 Plan prior to December 31, 2016 (prior to forfeitures), 60,400 units vested immediately on July 1, 2016 upon completion of the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO Units”), 68,900 LTIP units vested on December 1, 2016, and an additional 8,000 LTIP units vested immediately during December 2016 (a total of 137,300 vested units as of March 31, 2017). Additionally, there was an aggregate of 2,760 forfeited units that were not vested. The remaining unvested 274,444 LTIP units (the “Service LTIPs”), net of forfeitures, consists of 260,694 units granted to employees of the Advisor and its affiliates deemed to be non-employees in accordance with ASC Topic 505 and vest over periods of 36 months, 41 months, and 53 months, from the grant date, dependent on the population granted to, as well as 13,750 units granted to the Company’s independent directors (that were treated as employees in accordance with ASC Topic 718), and vest over a period of 12 months from the grant date.
Detail of Compensation Expense Recognized For The Three Months Ended March 31, 2017 The Company incurred compensation expense of $419,610 for the three months ended March 31, 2017 related to the grants awarded under the 2017 Program and the 2016 Plan. Compensation expense is classified as “General and Administrative” expense in the Company’s accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. A detail of compensation expense recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2017, by plan, is as follows:
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