Company: SPWH
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-054732
Chunk: 31

Company: SPORTSMAN'S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 section and the award agreements for his equity awards provide for certain benefits to be paid to him in connection with a termination of his employment. In addition, we have entered into a severance agreement with Mr. White, also providing for certain benefits to be paid to him in connection with a termination of his employment, and the award agreements for his equity awards provide for certain benefits to be paid to him in connection with a termination of his employment. Such benefits are described below in the section titled “Potential Payments on Termination or Change in Control.”

Other Benefits

Messrs. Stone and White are eligible to participate in our employee benefit plans, including our medical, dental, vision, group life, disability and accidental death and dismemberment insurance plans, in each case on the same basis as all of our other employees. We provide a 401(k) plan to our employees, including our named executive officers, as discussed in the section below entitled "Defined Contribution Plan." We do not generally provide perquisites or personal benefits to our named executive officers.

Tax and Accounting Implications

Under Financial Accounting Standard Board ASC Topic 718 (“ASC 718”), we are required to estimate and record an expense for each award of equity compensation over the vesting period of the award. We record share-based compensation expense on an ongoing basis according to ASC 718.

Under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Section 162(m)”), compensation paid to each of the Company’s “covered employees” that exceeds $1 million per taxable year is generally non-deductible.

Although the Compensation Committee will continue to consider tax implications as one factor in determining executive compensation, the Compensation Committee also looks at other factors in making its decisions and retains the flexibility to provide compensation for the Company’s named executive officers in a manner consistent with the goals of the Company’s executive compensation program and the best interests of the Company and its stockholders, which may include providing for compensation that is not deductible by the Company due to the deduction limit under Section 162(m).

Clawback Policy

We maintain a clawback policy that complies with the relevant requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related stock exchange listing standards. In addition, both time-based and performance-based cash and equity awards (whether short-term or long-term) are subject to an additional clawback policy that applies to cash or stock that vests or is received by Section 16 officers and certain other executives within 36 months prior to the date on which we are required to prepare an accounting rest