Performance Measures

Performance Measures. (a) with respect to any Incentive Award intended to qualify as Performance-Based Compensation, any one or more of the measures described in Section 13.1 of this Plan on which the Performance Goals are based and which measures are approved by the Company's shareholders pursuant to this Plan in order to qualify Incentive Awards as Performance-Based Compensation; and (b) with respect to any other Incentive Award, any performance measures as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion and... set forth in the applicable Incentive Award Agreement for purposes of determining the applicable Performance Goal. View More

Performance Measures. Mean one or more performance factors which may be established by the Administrator with respect to an Award. Performance factors may be based on such corporate, business unit or division and/or individual performance factors and criteria as the Administrator in its discretion may deem appropriate; provided, however, that, if and to the extent that Section 162(m) of the Code is applicable, then such performance factors shall be limited to one or more of the following (as determined by the... Administrator in its discretion): (i) cash flow; (ii) return on equity; (iii) return on assets; (iv) earnings per share; (v) operations expense efficiency milestones; (vi) consolidated earnings before or after taxes (including earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization); (vii) net income; (viii) operating income; (ix) book value per share; (x) return on investment; (xi) return on capital; (xii) improvements in capital structure; (xiii) expense management; (xiv) profitability of an identifiable business unit or product; (xv) maintenance or improvement of profit margins; (xvi) stock price or total shareholder return; (xvii) market share; (xviii) revenues or sales; (xix) costs; (xx) working capital; (xxi) economic wealth created; (xxii) strategic business criteria; (xxiii) efficiency ratio(s); (xxiv) achievement of division, group, function or corporate financial, strategic or operational goals; and (xxv) comparisons with stock market indices or performances of metrics of peer companies. If and to the extent that Section 162(m) of the Code is applicable, the Administrator shall, within the time and in the manner prescribed by Section 162(m) of the Code and related regulations, define in an objective fashion the manner of calculating the Performance Measures it selects to use for Participants during any specific performance period and determine whether such Performance Measures have been met. Such performance factors may be adjusted or modified due to extraordinary items, transactions, events or developments, or in recognition of, or in anticipation of, any other unusual or nonrecurring events affecting the Corporation or the financial statements of the Corporation, or in response to, or in anticipation of, changes in Applicable Laws, accounting principles or business conditions, in each case as determined by the Administrator. View More

Performance Measures. One or more of the following criteria, on which Performance Goals may be based: (a) earnings (either in the aggregate or on a per-Share basis, reflecting dilution of Shares as the Committee deems appropriate and, if the Committee so determines, net of or including dividends) before or after interest and taxes ('EBIT') or before or after interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ('EBITDA'); (b) gross or net revenue or changes in annual revenues; (c) cash flow(s) (including operating, free... or net cash flows); (d) financial return ratios; (e) total stockholder return, stockholder return based on growth measures or the attainment by the Shares of a specified value for a specified period of time, (f) Share price, or Share price appreciation; (g) earnings growth or growth in earnings per Share; (h) return measures, including return or net return on assets, net assets, equity, capital, investment, or gross sales; (i) adjusted pre-tax margin; (j) pre-tax profits; (k) operating margins; (l) operating profits; (m) operating expenses; (n) dividends; (o) net income or net operating income; (p) growth in operating earnings or growth in earnings per Share; (q) value of assets; (r) market share or market penetration with respect to specific designated products or product groups and/or specific geographic areas; (s) aggregate product price and other product measures; (t) expense or cost levels, in each case, where applicable, determined either on a company-wide basis or in respect of any one or more specified divisions; (u) reduction of losses, loss ratios or expense ratios; (v) reduction in fixed costs; (w) operating cost management; (x) cost of capital; (y) debt reduction; (z) productivity improvements; (aa) satisfaction of specified business expansion goals or goals relating to acquisitions or divestitures; (bb) customer satisfaction based on specified objective goals or a Company-sponsored customer survey; or (cc) Associate diversity goals. Performance Measures may be applied on a pre-tax or post-tax basis, and may be based upon the performance of the Company (or a division, organization or other business unit thereof), a Subsidiary, an Affiliated Company, or of an individual Participant. The Committee may, at time of grant, in the case of an Award intended to be a Qualified Performance-Based Award, and in the case of other grants, at any time, provide that the Performance Goals for such Award may include or exclude items to measure specific objectives, such as losses from discontinued operations, extraordinary gains or losses, the cumulative effect of accounting changes, acquisitions or divestitures, foreign exchange impacts, and any unusual nonrecurring gain or loss View More

Performance Measures. One or more of the following criteria, on which Performance Goals may be based: revenues, net income, pre-tax income, operating income, earnings per share, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), cash flow, return on equity, return on capital, return on assets, operating ratio, and capital expenditures; provided, that the Committee shall have the authority to use Performance Measures other than those herein specified as... it deems appropriate in its sole discretion View More

Performance Measures. Shall mean the criteria and objectives, established by the Committee in its sole discretion, which shall be satisfied or met as a condition to a Participant's receipt of a bonus payment for a Performance Period. The Committee may amend or adjust the Performance Measures for a Performance Period in recognition of unusual or nonrecurring events affecting the Company or its financial statements or changes in law or accounting, but only, in the case of a bonus payment that is intended to qualify as... "qualified performance-based compensation" under Section 162(m) of the Code, to the extent such adjustment would not cause any portion of the bonus payment to be nondeductible pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Code. In the case of a bonus that is intended to qualify as qualified performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Code, the Performance Measures shall be based on one or more of the following business criteria, determined with respect to the performance of Company as a whole, or, where determined to be appropriate by the Committee, with respect to the performance of one or more divisions or groups within the Company, or with respect to the performance of individual Participants: net sales; pretax income before allocation of corporate overhead and bonus; budget; earnings per share; net income; return on stockholders' equity; return on assets; return on capital employed; attainment of strategic and operational initiatives; appreciation in and/or maintenance of the price of the common stock or any other publicly traded securities of the Company; market share; gross profits; earnings before interest and taxes; earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; economic value- added models; comparisons with various stock market indices; increase in number of customers and/or reductions in costs; total stockholder return (based on the change in the price of a share of the Company's common stock and dividends paid); operating income; and cash flows (including, but not limited to, operating cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on equity and cash flow return on investment) for the applicable Performance Period. View More

Performance Measures. One or more of the following: (i) earnings per share, (ii) return on average common equity, (iii) pre-tax income, (iv) pre-tax operating income, (v) net revenue, (vi) net income, (vii) profits before taxes, (viii) book value per share, (ix) changes in amounts of oil and gas reserves, (x) changes in production rates, (xi) net asset value, (xii) net asset value per share, (xiii) sales, (xiv) finding costs, or (xv) operating cost reductions, but shall not include remaining in the employ of the... Company for a specified period of time View More

Performance Measures. With respect to any Award Agreement, the business criteria selected by the Committee to measure the level of performance of the Company and/or a business unit, segment, division or subsidiary of the Company during a Performance Period

Performance Measures. For any Long-Term Performance Period shall mean: (a) Efficiency Ratio, Non-Performing Asset Ratio, Net Income Growth, Return on Average Equity, Revenue Growth, and/or Tangible Book Value Per Diluted Share, as determined by the Committee in its discretion.

Performance Measures. Any business or performance criteria selected by the Committee on which it will base performance goals that must be satisfied as a condition precedent to the vesting of an Award. For any Award intended to constitute Performance-Based Compensation, the Performance Measures shall consist of one or a combination of two or more of the following business or performance criteria: interest income; net interest income; income before income tax expense; net income; net income available to common... stockholders; earnings per common share (basic or diluted); profitability as measured by return ratios (including, but not limited to, return on average assets, return on average equity) or by the degree to which any of the foregoing earnings measures exceed a percentage of interest income; cash flow; market share; net interest margin; stock price; total stockholder equity; asset quality; non-performing assets; interest income growth; operating income; cash flow per share; improvement in, or attainment of, non-interest expense levels or cost savings. Any performance goal based a Performance Measure may be expressed in absolute amounts, on a per share basis (basic or diluted), relative to one or more other Performance Measures, as a growth rate or change from preceding periods, or as a comparison to the performance of specified companies, indices or other external measures, and may relate to one or any combination of Company, Affiliate, division, business unit, operational unit or individual performance View More

Performance Measures. Measures as described in Paragraph 16 on which the performance goals are based and which are approved by the Bank's shareholders pursuant to this 2014 Plan in order to qualify Awards as Performance-Based Compensation