Comparator Group definition

Comparator Group is defined as the following nine U.S. based carriers including, AirTran Airways, Inc., Alaska Air Group, Inc., AMR Corporation, Continental Airlines, Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., JetBlue Airways Corporation, Southwest Airlines Co., US Airways Group, Inc. and UAL Corporation.

Comparator Group means the companies comprising the S&P 500 as of the first day of the Performance Period and, except as provided below, the common stock of which is continually listed or traded on a national securities exchange from the first day of the Performance Period through the last trading day of the Performance Period. In the event a member of the Comparator Group files for bankruptcy or liquidates due to an insolvency, such company shall continue to be treated as a Comparator Group member, and such company’s Ending Price will be treated as $0 if the common stock (or similar equity security) of such company is no longer listed or traded on a national securities exchange on the last trading day of the Performance Period (and if multiple members of the Comparator Group file for bankruptcy or liquidate due to an insolvency, such members shall be ranked in order of when such bankruptcy or liquidation occurs, with earlier bankruptcies/liquidations ranking lower than later bankruptcies/liquidations). In the event of a formation of a new parent company by a Comparator Group member, substantially all of the assets and liabilities of which consist immediately after the transaction of the equity interests in the original Comparator Group member or the assets and liabilities of such Comparator Group member immediately prior to the transaction, such new parent company shall be substituted for the Comparator Group member to the extent (and for such period of time) as its common stock (or similar equity securities) are listed or traded on a national securities exchange but the common stock (or similar equity securities) of the original Comparator Group member are not. In the event of a merger or other business combination of two Comparator Group members (including, without limitation, the acquisition of one Comparator Group member, or all or substantially all of its assets, by another Comparator Group member), the surviving, resulting or successor entity, as the case may be, shall continue to be treated as a member of the Comparator Group, provided that the common stock (or similar equity security) of such entity is listed or traded on a national securities exchange through the last trading day of the Performance Period.

Comparator Group means the companies listed on Annex A, attached hereto. Each such company shall be included in the Comparator Group only if the company is publicly-traded at both the beginning and end of the TSR Performance Period.

Examples of Comparator Group in a sentence

• The “TSR Performance Multiplier” will be determined by comparing the Company’s total stockholder return to the total stockholder return of each of the companies in the Comparator Peer Group (as set forth below) over the period commencing on the Award Date and ending on the third anniversary of the Award Date (the “Performance Period”) to determine the Company’s TSR ranking against the Comparator Group.

• Subject to the other applicable provisions of the Plan, the Committee may at any time and from time to time grant stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) to eligible participants, either on a free-standing basis (without regard to or in addition to the grant of a stock option) or on a tandem basis (related to the grant of an underlying stock option), as it determines.

• Comparator Total Stockholder Return for an applicable company in the Comparator Group shall mean the percentage rate of growth during the Valuation Period of an investment of $1,000 in shares of the common stock of the applicable company in the Comparator Group on the first day of the Valuation Period, assuming reinvestment of all dividends paid during the Valuation Period and adjusted in an equitable manner for any material stock splits, reverse stock splits or similar transactions.

• Any distribution under the Plan will be determined by (i) the Corporation’s TSR rank within the Comparator Group and (ii) the terms and conditions of the award agreement (the “Agreement”) between the Corporation and the employee.

• A component company of the Comparator Group filing for bankruptcy protection (and thus no longer publicly traded) at any time during the Performance Period will be deemed to remain in the Comparator Group (at an assumed TSR of negative 100%).

More Definitions of Comparator Group

Comparator Group means the group of companies which the Compensation Committee shall from time to time determine should be the Comparator Group (which shall be set out in the documentation granting the Award) and which shall be, at the date of adoption of the Plan the companies listed below (the ticker numbers for the following companies are those used on the companies’ respective domestic exchanges): Aegis Group plc (GB:965756), Arbitron Inc (US:ARB), Dentsu Inc (JP:4324), GfK AG (DE:587530), Havas SA (FR:12188), Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (US:IPG), Ipsos SA (FR:7329), Omnicom Group Inc (US:OMC) and Publicis Groupe SA (FR:13057).

Comparator Group means the companies listed on Exhibit A hereto.

Comparator Group means all companies in the S&P 600 Financials Index as of the first day of the Performance Period (“Peer Companies”), modified to take into account mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other similar events as follows:

Comparator Group. The Comparator Group comprises the following 21 companies: Adient plc American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. Aptiv PLC Autoliv, Inc. BorgWarner Inc. Xxxxxx Tire & Rubber Company Xxxx Incorporated Xxxxxxx Motion Inc. Gentex Corporation LCI Industries Xxxx Corporation Linamar Corporation Magna International Inc. Martinrea International Inc. Standard Motor Products Inc. Tenneco Inc. TI Fluid Systems plc The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Tower International, Inc. Veoneer, Inc. Visteon Corporation

Comparator Group means the companies comprising the “S&P 500” as of the beginning of the Performance Period; except that companies acquired during the Performance Period will be eliminated from the Comparator Group.

Comparator Group means the Total Shareholder Return (TSR) comparator group which applies to the last awards made under the HSBC Share Plan immediately before the Termination Date or where any companies in the TSR comparator group are the subject of a takeover or undergo any form of reconstruction, the entities to which the business assets of such companies are transferred from time to time;

Comparator Group means the component companies of the S&P 600 SmallCap that are classified as members of the GICS® capital goods industry group on [ ], as listed in Appendix A; provided, however, that if any component company ceases to be listed as a publicly traded entity as a result of an acquisition, merger or other similar transaction during the Measurement Period, then such company shall not be included in the Comparator Group.