Note 11. Employee Benefits

Until its expiration on June 1, 2025, the Company maintained the REX American Resources Corporation 2015 Incentive Plan, approved by its shareholders, which reserved a total of 3,300,000 split-adjusted shares of common stock for issuance pursuant to its terms. At its time of expiration, 1,065,809 shares (pre-2025 split) remained available for issuance under the plan.

On May 28, 2026, shareholders approved the REX American Resources Corporation 2026 Incentive Plan, which reserves a total of 1,500,000 shares of common stock pursuant to its terms. The plan provides for the granting of shares of stock, including options to purchase shares of common stock, stock appreciation rights tied to the value of common stock, restricted stock, and restricted stock unit awards to eligible employees, non-employee directors and consultants.

Restricted Stock Awards

As a component of their compensation, restricted stock has been granted in the past to directors and certain employees at the closing market price of REX common stock on the grant date. In addition, one quarter of executives’ incentive compensation is payable by an award of restricted stock based on the then closing market price of REX common stock on the grant date. The Company’s board of directors has determined that the grant date will be June 15^th, or the next business day if June 15^th is not a business day, for all grants of restricted stock.

Based on retirement eligibility provisions, a portion of restricted stock grants were expensed at grant date, based on grant date fair value, thus considered vested for accounting purposes. At April 30, 2026, 20,964 shares were unvested for accounting purposes and unrecognized compensation cost related to these nonvested restricted stock awards was approximately $174,000, to be recognized over a weighted average vesting term of 1.0 year.

The following tables summarize legally unvested restricted stock award activity for the periods presented:

Restricted Stock Units

In May 2022, the Company issued a total of 135,000 RSUs to certain officers with a performance period that ended on December 31, 2024. The number of RSUs eligible to vest ranged from zero percent to two-hundred percent and was determined based on how the Company’s TSR compared to the TSR of companies that comprised the Russell 2000 Index during the performance period. The calculated payout of the RSUs that vested was 148%, or 199,800 shares of REX common stock, and the shares were issued on February 26, 2025.