Common use of Performance Factors Clause in Contracts

Performance Factors. Performance goals shall be based exclusively on one or more of the following objective Company (including any division or operating unit thereof) or individual measures, stated in either absolute terms or relative terms, such as rates of growth or improvement, the attainment by a share of Common Stock of a specified fair market value for a specified period of time, earnings per share, earnings per share excluding non-recurring, special or extraordinary items, return to stockholders (including dividends), return on capital, return on total capital deployed, return on assets, return on equity, earnings of the Company before or after taxes and/or interest, revenues, revenue increase, repeat purchase rate, recurring revenue, recurring revenue increase, market share, cash flow or cost reduction goals, cash flow provided by operations, net cash flow, short-term or long-term cash flow return on investment, interest expense after taxes, return on investment, return on investment capital, economic value created, operating margin, gross profit margin, net profit margin, pre-tax income margin, net income margin, net income before or after taxes, pretax earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization, pre-tax operating earnings after interest expense and before incentives, and/or extraordinary or special items, operating earnings, net cash provided by operations, and strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration, geographic business expansion goals, cost targets, customer satisfaction, reductions in errors and omissions, reductions in lost business, management of employment practices and employee benefits, supervision of litigation and information technology, quality and quality audit scores, productivity, efficiency, and goals relating to acquisitions or divestitures, or any combination of the foregoing.

Performance Factors. Performance goals shall be based exclusively on one or more of the following objective Company (including any division or operating unit thereof) or individual measures, stated in either absolute terms or relative terms, such as rates of growth or improvement, the attainment by a share of Common Stock of a specified fair market value for a specified period of time, earnings per share, earnings per share excluding non-recurring, special or extraordinary items, return to stockholders (including dividends), return on capital, return on total capital deployed, return on assets, return on equity, earnings of the Company before or after taxes and/or interest, revenues, revenue increase, new business development or acquisition, repeat purchase rate, recurring revenue, recurring revenue increase, market share, cash flow or cost reduction goals, cash flow provided by operations, net cash flow, short-term or long-term cash flow return on investment, interest expense after taxes, return on investment, return on investment capital, economic value created, operating margin, gross profit margin, net profit margin, pre-tax income margin, net income margin, net income before or after taxes, pretax earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization, pre-tax operating earnings after interest expense and before incentives, and/or extraordinary or special items, operating earnings, net cash provided by operations, and strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration, geographic business expansion goals, cost targets, customer satisfaction, reductions in errors and omissions, reductions in lost business, management of employment practices and employee benefits, supervision of litigation and information technology, quality and quality audit scores, productivity, efficiency, and goals relating to acquisitions or divestitures, or any combination of the foregoing.