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Stock Incentive Plans

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Stock Incentive Plans
 4 Months Ended
Apr. 16, 2017
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]  
Stock Incentive Plans
Stock Incentive Plans
Under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated 2007 Performance Incentive Plan (the “2007 Stock Plan”), various stock options and stock awards may be granted to employees of the Company and any of its subsidiaries, directors of the Company, and certain consultants and advisors to the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
Stock options are granted with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of shares of the Company’s common stock at the grant date. We account for stock-based compensation in accordance with fair value recognition provisions, calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model (the “pricing model”). The weighted-average fair value of non-qualified stock options and the related assumptions used in the pricing model for periods in which options were granted were as follows:
 
Sixteen Weeks Ended
 
April 16, 2017
 
April 17, 2016
Risk-free interest rate
1.8
%
 
1.2
%
Expected years until exercise
5.0

 
4.7

Expected stock volatility
37.9
%
 
39.3
%
Dividend yield
—
%
 
—
%
Weighted average Black-Scholes fair value per share at date of grant
$
17.11

 
$
21.93


The following table presents a summary of the Company’s stock-based compensation activity for the sixteen weeks ended April 16, 2017 (in thousands):
 
Stock Options
 
Restricted Stock Units
Outstanding, December 25, 2016
408

 
82

Granted
145

 
58

Forfeited/expired
(13
)
 
(3
)
Exercised/vested
(24
)
 
(17
)
Outstanding, April 16, 2017
516

 
120


We recognized stock-based compensation expense of $0.9 million and $2.1 million for the sixteen weeks ended April 16, 2017 and April 17, 2016.