Peer Group definition

Peer Group means the group of companies, as more particularly set forth on attached Exhibit A, against which the Relative Total Shareholder Return of the Company is measured over the Incentive Period.

Peer Group means hospitals that share a common, stable, and independently definable characteristic or feature that significantly influences the cost of providing hospital services, including specialty hospitals that limit the provision of services to specific patient populations, such as rehabilitative patients or children.

Peer Group means the group made up of the following 9 financial institutions: BBVA, BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Agricole, HSBC, ING, Itaú, Scotiabank and Unicredit.

Examples of Peer Group in a sentence

• Each Peer Group Member ranked in between will be assigned a percentile equal to one hundred divided by n minus one (100/(n-1)), plus the percentile assigned to the Peer Group Member ranked directly below it, where “n” is the total number of companies in the Peer Group.

• The Board may disregard any of these guidelines when evaluating changes in the membership of the Peer Group during the Performance Period in any particular situation, as it deems reasonable in the exercise of its discretion.

• The Peer Group Member ranked highest will be assigned the one hundred percentile (100%) rank and the Peer Group Member ranked lowest will be assigned the zero percentile (0%) rank.

• The Company’s TSR percentile ranking shall be determined as follows: the TSR percentile ranking shall be determined by ranking each Peer Group Member (excluding the Company) from the highest TSR to the lowest TSR.

• The percentile rank of the Company’s Total Shareholder Return as compared to the Total Shareholder Returns of all members of the Peer Group, ranked in descending order (including the Company), at the end of the Performance Period.

More Definitions of Peer Group

Peer Group means the following eight companies: American Water Works Company, Inc., Aqua America, Inc., California Water Service Group, SJW Corp., Middlesex Water Company, Connecticut Water Service, Inc., York Water Company and Artesian Resources Corporation. For this purpose, total shareholder return for the Corporation and each of the other eight companies shall be calculated using the Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines for reporting financial performance. If the stock of any of the members of the Peer Group is no longer traded or is suspended from trading as of the last business day of the Performance Period, that company shall not be included in the Peer Group.

Peer Group means the group of companies that are pre-established by the Board which principally represent a group of selected peers, or such other group of companies as selected and pre-established by the Board.

Peer Group means the group of companies selected by the Committee for purposes of this Agreement as set forth in the Award Notice. Should consolidation among any Peer Group companies in the marketplace occur during the Performance Period, the Committee will determine the appropriate adjustments to accommodate the reduced number of Peer Group companies for the Performance Period. Should a Change of Control of the Company occur during the Performance Period, the Committee will determine the appropriate adjustments to measure Apache Corporation’s TSR for the Performance Period. The Peer Group companies for any particular Performance Period shall be determined at the commencement of such Performance Period.

Peer Group means the companies that comprise the S&P Composite 1500 Health Care Index. Companies that are members of the index at the beginning of the Performance Period that subsequently cease to be listed in the index as a result of acquisitions, mergers or combinations involving such companies shall be excluded from the Peer Group. Companies that are members of the index at the beginning of the Performance Period that subsequently file for bankruptcy during the Performance Period shall be treated as worst performers for purposes of the Relative Total Shareholder Return Performance Goal calculation.

Peer Group means the Company’s peer group set forth in Section D.3. hereof.

Peer Group means the peer group approved by the Committee which shall be the companies that comprised the S&P Supercomposite Insurance Index at the beginning of the Performance Period (other than the Company), adjusted as of the end of the Performance Period to remove any such companies which are no longer included in the S&P Supercomposite Insurance Index as of the last day of the Performance Period.

Peer Group means the peer group of companies set forth on Exhibit A; provided that if a constituent company(s) in the Peer Group ceases to be actively traded, due, for example, to merger or bankruptcy, or the Committee otherwise reasonably determines that it is no longer suitable for the purposes of this Agreement, then the Committee in its reasonable discretion shall select a comparable company to be added to the Peer Group for purposes of making the Total Return to Shareholders comparison required by Sections 2(b)(iii) and 3(b) meaningful and consistent across the relevant measurement period.