Total Shareholder Return

Total Shareholder Return. A rate of return reflecting annualized stock price appreciation, plus the reinvestment of dividends in additional shares of stock, from the beginning of the Performance Period through the end of the Performance Period

Total Shareholder Return. Shall mean the change in the value expressed as a percentage of a given dollar amount invested in a company's most widely publicly traded stock over the Performance Period, taking into account both stock price appreciation (or depreciation) and the reinvestment of dividends (including the cash value of non-cash dividends) in such stock of the company. The ten (10) trading-day average closing value of the Shares and the stock of the Comparator Group companies, as applicable (i.e., average... closing values over the period of ten (10) trading days ending on the day prior to the beginning of the Performance Period and the final ten (10) trading days ending on the final day of the Performance Period) will be used to value the Shares and the stock of the Comparator Group companies, as applicable. Dividend reinvestment will be calculated using the closing price of the Shares or the stock of the applicable Comparator Group company, as applicable, on the dividend payment date or, if no trades were reported on such date, the latest preceding date for which a trade was reported. View More

Total Shareholder Return. The total return to a Company shareholder, including any cash dividends paid, expressed as a percentage by comparing the Ending Stock Price for calendar years 2013 through 2016 with the Beginning Stock Price using the following formula: (Ending Stock Price plus cumulative cash dividends paid minus Beginning Stock Price) divided by the Beginning Stock Price. For purposes of this Subsection (u), the term "Beginning Stock Price" means the average per share closing price of Company common stock, as... reported by the NASDAQ National Market, over the last ten (10) trading days immediately preceding today's date, adjusted to reflect subsequent stock splits, stock dividends and similar events affecting shares of Company common stock, and the term "Ending Stock Price" means the average per share closing price of Company common stock, as reported by the NASDAQ National Market, over the ten (10) trading days immediately preceding and immediately following the date of the Company's public release of fourth quarter financial results for the applicable calendar year. View More

Total Shareholder Return. Means the average annual return on Common Shares for the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the last day of the calendar month of the Performance Period in question, expressed as a percentage. The annual return to shareholders shall be determined by taking into account all dividends and interest paid on account of Common Shares as well as the per share appreciation in the per share price of Common Shares.

Total Shareholder Return. For the Performance Period is the measure of a company's stock price appreciation plus any dividends paid during the Performance Period. Only those companies that were included in the Growth Index in each of the years of the Performance Period will be considered. Total Shareholder Return for the Company and the companies in the Growth Index will be determined using the Daily Comparative Return as calculated by Bloomberg (or other independent third party data system). If the Growth Index is... discontinued, the Committee shall select the most comparable index then in use for the sector comparison. In addition, if the sector comparison is no longer representative of the Company's industry or business, the Committee shall replace the Growth Index with the most representative index then in use. Once the Total Shareholder Returns of the Company and all relevant companies in the Growth Index have been determined, the member companies will be ranked from greatest to least. Percentiles will be calculated (interpolated from 0% to 100%) based on a company's relative ranking. Percentiles will be carried out to one (1) decimal place. If the Company is not in the Growth Index, then its percentile will be interpolated between the companies listed in the relative ranking. These calculations will be verified by the Company's internal auditors. View More

Total Shareholder Return. The stock price appreciation, plus dividends reinvested and plus cash equivalent distributions reinvested over a specific period of time. Total Shareholder Return is expressed as a percentage increase (decrease) over the beginning value of the stock

Total Shareholder Return. The total return to a shareholder per share of Stock, from Stock Price appreciation, determined by comparing the Stock Price as of January 1, 2008 with the Stock Price on the last day of the applicable period, plus cumulative dividends (compounded) during such period

Total Shareholder Return. The Total Shareholder Return ("TSR") for the Performance Period is equal to the following: Ending Stock Price – Beginning Stock Price + Dividends Beginning Stock Price Where: "Beginning Stock Price": is the closing price of a share of the Company's common stock, as listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the day immediately preceding the first day of the Performance Period; "Dividends": is the per share dividends paid on Company common stock during the Performance... Period; and "Ending Stock Price": is the closing price of a share of the Company's common stock, as listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the day immediately preceding the last day of the Performance Period. View More

Total Shareholder Return. The percentage change in the closing stock price from the immediately preceding trading day prior to the first day of the Performance Period through the last day of the applicable Performance Period (or immediately preceding trading day if such day is not a trading day) assuming reinvestment of dividends on the ex-dividend date.

Total Shareholder Return. With respect to the Company or other S&P 500 company: (i) the change in the average closing market price of its common stock (as quoted in the principal market on which it is traded over the 20 trading days immediately preceding the beginning and end of the Performance Period) plus dividends and other distributions paid, divided by (ii) the average closing market price over the 20 trading days immediately preceding the beginning of the Performance Period, all of which is adjusted for any... changes in equity structure, including but not limited to stock splits and stock dividends, and assuming that all cash dividends and cash distributions are immediately reinvested in common stock of the entity using the closing market price on the dividend payment date. View More