COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORPCMCO

COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP Stock Compensation Disclosure

10-KFiled May 28, 20251 min read
Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
 
Effective January 1, 2012, the ESOP was closed to new hires.  Prior to this date, substantially all of the Company’s U.S. non-union employees were participants in the ESOP. Additionally, during the year ended March 31, 2015, the final loan payment was made by the ESOP to the Company and there was no compensation expense recorded in fiscal years 2025, 2024, or 2023.

At March 31, 2025 and 2024, 143,000 and 160,000 of ESOP shares, respectively, were allocated or available to be allocated to participants’ accounts. There are no shares of collateralized common stock related to the ESOP loan outstanding at March 31, 2025 and no ESOP shares were pledged as collateral to guarantee the ESOP term loans.

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Key signals: total unrecognized compensation expense and its expected recognition period signal future earnings headwinds from already-granted awards. For stock options, examine Black-Scholes assumptions — expected volatility, risk-free rate, and expected term — as understating any of these reduces reported compensation expense. Compare stock compensation expense as a percentage of revenue against peers to assess dilution cost. Watch vesting schedules for acceleration clauses tied to change-of-control events. Performance-based awards with undemanding targets may indicate weak governance. Add back stock compensation to operating cash flow to calculate a more conservative free cash flow figure.

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