COPT Defense Properties Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

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Represents the baseline common share value that is used in valuing the grant date fair value of awards.

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Represents the earned performance share units payout, as a percentage of performance share units granted, if the entity's total shareholder return relative to a peer group of companies ranks at the 25th percentile.

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Represents the earned performance share units payout percentage based on percentile rank below 25.

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The weighted average fair value at grant date for nonvested equity-based awards issued during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)
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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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-Paragraph 2
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