Performance Criteria

Performance Criteria. ASUS Cumulative Net Earnings, ASUS New Base Acquisition Success Rate, Aggregate GSWC Operating Expense Level and Total Shareholder Return.

Performance Criteria. Shall mean the business criteria listed on Exhibit A hereto (or such other business or other performance criteria determined appropriate by the Committee) on which Performance Targets shall be established.

Performance Criteria. Performance Criteria means the End of Performance Period Stock Price set forth in Section 1.4(a) and the Average Return on Invested Capital set forth in Section 1.4(b).

Performance Criteria. The performance targets related to one or more performance goals specified in Section 4 of this Agreement

Performance Criteria. Shall mean a formula or standard determined at the discretion of the Administrator with respect to a Performance Period utilizing one or more of the following factors, whether in absolute terms or relative to the performance of one or more similarly situated companies or a published index: (i) operating income, operating cash flow and operating expense; (ii) earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; (iii) earnings; (iv) cash flow; (v) market share; (vi) sales; (vii)... revenue; (viii) profits before interest and taxes; (ix) expenses; (x) cost of goods sold; (xi) profit/loss or profit margin; (xii) working capital; (xiii) return on capital, equity or assets; (xiv) earnings per share; (xv) economic value added; (xvi) stock price; (xvii) price/earnings ratio; (xviii) debt or debt-to-equity; (xix) accounts receivable; (xx) writeoffs; (xxi) cash; (xxii) assets; (xxiii) liquidity; (xxiv) operations; (xxv) intellectual property (e.g., patents); (xxvi) product development; (xxvii) regulatory activity; (xxviii) manufacturing, production or inventory; (xxix) mergers and acquisitions or divestitures; (xxx) financings; (xxxi) total shareholder return; and/or (xxxii) any other performance factor selected by the Administrator. Performance Criteria may be established on a Company-wide basis or with respect to one or more business units, divisions, or Subsidiaries. When establishing Performance Criteria for a Performance Period, the Administrator may exclude any or all "extraordinary items" as determined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles including, without limitation, the charges or costs associated with restructurings of the Company or any Subsidiary, discontinued operations, other unusual or non-recurring items, and the cumulative effects of accounting changes. The Administrator may also adjust the Performance Criteria for any Performance Period as it deems equitable in recognition of unusual or non-recurring events affecting the Company, changes in applicable tax laws or accounting principles, or such other factors as the Administrator may determine. View More

Performance Criteria. Defined in Paragraph 10(b)

Performance Criteria. Means the one or more criteria that the Administrator will select for purposes of establishing the Performance Goals for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish such Performance Goals may be based on any one of, or combination of, the following, as determined by the Administrator: (i) earnings, including one or more of operating income, earnings before or after taxes, earnings before or after interest, depreciation, amortization, adjusted EBITDA, economic... earnings, or extraordinary or special items or book value per share (which may exclude nonrecurring items); (ii) earnings (as defined in (i), above) as a percentage of revenues; (iii) pre-tax income, after-tax income or adjusted net income; (iv) earnings per share (basic or diluted); (v) operating profit; (vi) revenue, revenue growth or rate of revenue growth; (vii) return on assets (gross or net), return on investment, return on capital, or return on equity; (viii) returns on sales or revenues; (ix) operating expenses; (x) stock price appreciation; (xi) cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on investment (discounted or otherwise), net cash provided by operations, or cash flow in excess of cost of capital; (xii) implementation or completion of critical projects or processes; (xiii) total shareholder return; (xiv) cumulative earnings per share growth; (xv) operating margin or profit margin; (xvi) cost targets, reductions and savings, productivity and efficiencies; (xvii) strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration, geographic business expansion, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, human resources management, goals relating to acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and/or similar transactions and/or goals relating to budget comparisons; (xviii) working capital; (xix) book value; (xx) customer satisfaction; (xxi) any other measures of performance selected by the Administrator; and (xxii) any combination of, or a specified increase or decrease in, any of the foregoing. Such performance goals may be measured on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or non-GAAP basis, and be based solely by reference to the performance of the Company as a whole or any subsidiary, division, business segment or business unit of the Company, or any combination thereof or based upon the relative performance of other companies or upon comparisons of any of the indicators of performance relative to a peer group of other comparable companies, or as compared to the performance of a published or special index deemed applicable by the Administrator, including by not limited to, the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index or any other market index. Unless otherwise stated in an Award Agreement a performance goal need not be based on an increase or positive result under a particular business criterion and could include, for example, maintaining the status quo or limiting economic losses (measured, in each case, by reference to specific business criteria). View More

Performance Criteria. Any performance criteria determined by the Committee to be applicable to an Award, which may include, but shall not be limited to, one or any combination of the following, for the Company or any identified Subsidiary or business unit, as determined by the Committee at the time of the Award: (i) net earnings; (ii) earnings per share; (iii) net debt; (iv) net revenue; (v) revenue growth, sales growth or product revenue growth; (vi) net income (before or after taxes); (vii) pre- or after-tax... income (before or after allocation of corporate overhead and bonus); (viii) net operating profit; (ix) return measures (including, but not limited to, return on assets or net assets, capital, equity or sales); (x) cash flow (including, but not limited to, operating cash flow, distributable cash flow, cash flow per share and free cash flow); (xi) earnings before or after interest, taxes depreciation, amortization and/or rent; (xii) appreciation in and/or maintenance of share price (including, but not limited to, growth measures and total stockholder return); (xiii) cost reduction, expense control or loss management; (xiv) market share; (xv) economic value added; (xvi) working capital; (xvii) adjusted operating margins, gross margins or cash margin; (xviii) year-end cash; (xix) debt reductions; (xx) the completion of corporate transactions; (xxi) gross or net profit margins; (xxii) revenue mix; (xxiii) operating efficiency; (xxiv) product diversification; (xxv) market penetration; (xxvi) measurable achievement in quality, operation or development initiatives or production volume levels; (xxvii) quarterly dividends or distributions; (xxviii) employee retention or turnover; (xxix) operating income before depreciation, amortization and/or taxes; (xxx) strategic goals and objectives, including objectives related to qualitative or quantitative environmental, social and governance metrics; and/or (xxxi) any combination of or a specified increase or decrease, as applicable, in any of the foregoing. Any applicable Performance Criteria shall be applied and interpreted in the discretion of the Committee. Any applicable Performance Criteria may be consistently applied on a business unit, divisional, Subsidiary or consolidated basis or any combination thereof, described in terms of objectives that are related to the individual Participant or objectives that are Company-wide or related to a Subsidiary, division, department, region, function or business unit and may be measured on an absolute or cumulative basis or on the basis of percentage of improvement over time, and may be measured in terms of Company performance (or performance of the applicable Subsidiary, division, department, region, function or business unit) or measured relative to a selected peer company or group of peer companies (including particular business segments or divisions of such company or companies) or a market or other index, or in such other manner as determined by the Committee View More

Performance Criteria. Objective business criteria established by the Compensation Committee for executive and AICC participants and by the applicable Business Unit Leader for business unit participants with respect to the Company and/or any Subsidiary, division, business unit or component thereof upon which the Performance Goals for a Performance Period are based.

Performance Criteria. The criteria that the Committee selects for purposes of establishing the Performance Goal or Performance Goals for a Participant with respect to the Performance Cycle for a Performance Share Award. The Performance Criteria may be described in terms of Company-wide objectives or objectives that are related to the performance of the individual Participant or an organizational level specified by the Committee, including, but not limited to, a Subsidiary or unit, division, group of the Company or a... Subsidiary. Performance Criteria may be measured on an absolute or relative basis, including but not limited to performance as measured against a group of peer companies or by a financial market index. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish such Performance Goal(s) may be, but is not required to be, based on any one of, or combination of, the following financial and non-financial metrics with respect to the entire Company or a business unit, as determined by the Committee: net sales or revenue, unit sales, return measures (including, but not limited to, return on invested capital, assets, net assets, capital, equity and sales), gross or net profit margin, operating expense ratios, operating expense targets, productivity ratios, operating income or earnings, gross or operating margins, adjusted earnings before or after taxes, interest, depreciation and/or amortization, net earnings or net income (before or after taxes), earning per share, cash flow (including, but not limited to, operating cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on equity, and cash flow return on investment, funds from operations or similar measures, capital expenditures, share price (including, but not limited to, growth measures and total stockholder return), appreciation in the fair market value or book value of the Shares, cash dividends declared per Share, stockholder returns, dividends and other distributions, economic value added (net operating profit after tax minus the sum of capital multiplied by the cost of the capital), debt to equity ratio, debt levels, budget achievement, expense reduction or cost savings, operating margins, quantitative measures of customer satisfaction, quantitative measures of employee satisfaction/engagement, environmental, social and/or governance-related metrics, market share and/or new or expanded market penetration, acquisitions, strategic transactions or business expansion, product line diversification, employee retention/attrition, productivity improvements and inventory control/efficiency View More