Performance Criteria. The criterion or criteria that the Committee shall select for purposes of establishing the Performance Goal(s) for a Performance Period with respect to any Performance Compensation Award under the Plan. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish the Performance Goal(s) shall be based on the attainment of specific levels of performance of the Company (or Affiliate, division, business unit or operational unit of the Company) and may be, but shall not be limited to, the following,... used individually or in ratios or other combinations: (a) basic earnings per share; (b) basic cash earnings per share; (c) diluted earnings per share; (d) core earnings per share; (e) diluted cash earnings per share; (f) earnings before taxes; (g) net income; (h) net interest income; (i) non-interest income; (j) revenue; (k) efficiency ratio; (l) salaries and benefits efficiency ratio; (m) return on average assets; (n) core return on average assets; (o) core return on equity; (p) return on average shareholders' equity; (q) return on average tangible shareholders' equity; (r) core earnings; (s) operating income; (t) net interest margin; (u) net interest rate spread; (v) growth in assets, loans or deposits; (w) loan production volume; (x) sales; (y) net charge-offs; (z) nonperforming/classified assets; (aa) classified loans; (bb) cash flow; (cc) capital level (core or risk-based); (dd) interest rate risk exposure-net portfolio value; (ee) interest rate risk-sensitivity; (ff) liquidity; (gg) strategic business objectives, cost control, business expansion goals, and goals relating to acquisitions or divestitures, or goals relating to capital raising and capital management; (hh) objective customer service measures or indices, (ii) stock price (including, but not limited to, growth measures and total shareholder return); (jj) operating expense as a percentage of average assets; (kk) core deposits as a percentage of total deposits; (ll) net charge-off percentage; (mm) loan delinquency rates; and (nn) market share. Any one or more of the Performance Criteria may be used on an absolute or relative basis in any combination or ratio, or year-over-year change to measure the performance of the Company and/or an Affiliate as a whole or any division, business unit or operational unit of the Company and/or an Affiliate or any combination thereof, as the Committee may deem appropriate, or as compared to the performance of a group of comparable companies, or published or special index that the Committee, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. The Committee may alter the governing Performance Criteria and the Committee has sole discretion to make such changes without obtaining shareholder approval.View More
