Company: VCYT
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001384101-25-000051
Chunk: 120

Company: VERACYTE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 120
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 other property dividends for each Share represented by an Award held by such Participant.

28.15. “Effective Date” means the date this Plan is approved by the stockholders of the Company (which shall be within twelve (12) months of the approval of this Plan by the Board).

28.16. “Employee” means any person, including officers and Directors, providing services as an employee to the Company or any Parent, Subsidiary, or Affiliate. Neither service as a Director nor payment of a director’s fee by the Company will be sufficient to constitute “employment” by the Company.

28.17. “Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

28.18. “Exchange Program” means a program approved by the Company’s stockholders pursuant to which (i) outstanding Awards are surrendered, cancelled, or exchanged for cash, the same type of Award, or a different Award (or combination thereof) or (ii) the exercise price of an outstanding Award is reduced.

28.19. “Exercise Price” means, with respect to an Option, the price at which a holder may purchase the Shares issuable upon exercise of an Option and with respect to a SAR, the price at which the SAR is granted to the holder thereof.

28.20. “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of a Share, determined as follows:

(a) If such Common Stock was traded over-the-counter on the date in question, then the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the last transaction price quoted for such date by the OTC Bulletin Board or, if not so quoted, shall be equal to the mean between the last reported representative bid and asked prices quoted for such date by the principal automated inter-dealer quotation system on which the Common Stock is quoted or, if the Common Stock is not quoted on any such system, by the OTC Link Quote system;

(b) if such Common Stock is publicly traded and is then listed on a national securities exchange, its closing price on the date of determination on the principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Committee determines;

(c) if such Common Stock is publicly traded but is neither listed nor admitted to trading on a national securities exchange, the average of the closing bid and asked prices on the date of determination as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Committee determines; or

(d) by the Board or