Annual report pursuant to section 13 and 15(d)

SHARE BASED COMPENSATION

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SHARE BASED COMPENSATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Disclosure Of Compensation Related Costs, Share-Based Payments [Abstract]  
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block]
NOTE 10 – SHARE BASED COMPENSATION
 
2012 Incentive Stock Option Plan
 
On February 12, 2012, the Company’s board of directors (“Board of Directors”) approved the 2012 Incentive Stock Option Plan (the “2012 Plan”). The 2012 Plan provides for the issuance of options to purchase up to 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company. Under the terms of the 2012 Plan, the Company may issue Incentive Stock Options as defined by the Internal Revenue Code to employees of the Company and may also issue nonstatutory options to employees and others. The Board of Directors of the Company determines the exercise price, vesting and expiration period of the grants under the 2012 Plan. However, the exercise price of an Incentive Stock Option may not be less than 110% of fair value of the common stock at the date of the grant for a 10% or more shareholder and 100% of fair value for a grantee who is not a 10% shareholder. The fair value of the common stock is determined based on quoted market price or in absence of such quoted market price, by the Board of Directors in good faith. Additionally, the vesting period of the grants under the 2012 Plan may not be more than five years and expiration period not more than ten years. The Company reserved 200,000 shares of its common stock for future issuance under the terms of the 2012 Plan.
 
On May 9, 2012, 175,000 options had been granted under the 2012 Plan. Of such  options, 25,000 were cancelled and 150,000 were outstanding at December 31, 2013 with an exercise price of $30.00, a 10 year life and fair value of $23.50. The options vest 1/3rd on May 9, 2013 and 1/36th on the 9th of each month thereafter for 24 months.
 
On February 12, 2013, the 2012 Plan was amended and restated to increase the number of shares reserved under the plan to 550,000. On February 12, 2013, 226,500 options were granted under the 2012 Plan (all of which were outstanding at December 31, 2013) with an exercise price of $10.20, a 10 year life and fair value of $7.83. The options vest 1/3rd on February 12, 2014 and 1/36th on the 12th of each month thereafter for 24 months.
 
The Company measures the fair value of stock options on the date of grant, based on a Binomial option pricing model using certain assumptions discussed in the following paragraph, and the closing market price of the Company's common stock on the date of the grant. Stock options granted vest over a three year period and expire ten years from the date of grant. Share-based compensation expense related to awards is amortized over the applicable vesting period using the straight-line method.
 
The assumptions used in the valuation of stock options granted during the years ended December 31 , 2013 and 2012 were as follows:
 
 
 
2012
 
 
2013
 
Risk-free interest rate
 
 
1.87
%
 
 
2.02
%
Expected term of option
 
 
6.5 years
 
 
 
6.0 years
 
Expected stock price volatility
 
 
95.89
%
 
 
99.96
%
Expected dividend yield
 
$
0.0
 
 
$
0.0
 
 
The risk-free interest rate is based on the yield of Daily U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Rates with terms equal to the expected term of the options as of the grant date.  The expected term of options is determined using the simplified method, as provided in an SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin, and the expected stock price volatility is based on comparable companies’ historical stock price volatility since the Company does not have sufficient historical exercise or volatility data because its equity shares have been publicly traded for only a limited period of time.
 
Share-based compensation expense of $1,717,037 and $865,158 was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
 
As of December 31, 2013, the Company had approximately $2,798,281 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested awards granted under the Company’s 2012 option plan, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted average period of  1.69 years.
 
A summary of the stock option activity and related information for the 2012 Plan for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 is as follows:
 
 
Shares
 
Weighted-Average
Exercise Price
 
Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual Term
 
Aggregate Intrinsic
Value
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2012
 
 
-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Grants
 
 
175,000
 
$
30.00
 
 
10.00
 
$
-
 
Exercised
 
 
-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Forfeitures or expirations
 
 
(25,000)
 
$
30.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2013
 
 
150,000
 
$
30.00
 
 
9.35
 
$
-
 
Grants
 
 
226,500
 
$
10.20
 
 
10.00
 
$
-
 
Exercised
 
 
-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Forfeitures or expirations
 
 
-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Outstanding at December 31,
2013
 
 
376,500
 
$
18.09
 
 
8.81
 
$
24,915
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vested and expected to vest at
December 31, 2013
 
 
376,500
 
$
18.09
 
 
8.81
 
$
24,915
 
Exercisable at December 31,
2013
 
 
79,167
 
$
30.00
 
 
8.36
 
$
-
 
 
The aggregate intrinsic value in the preceding tables represents the total pretax intrinsic value, based on options with an exercise price less than the Company’s closing stock price of $10.31 as of December 31, 2013, which would have been received by the option holders had those option holders exercised their options as of that date.