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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-009137 to Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG) (CIK 0001766400) (PNTG)

Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG) (CIK 0001766400)
Date: Aug. 9, 2024 · CIK: 0001766400 · Accession: 0000000000-24-009137

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File numbers found in text: 001-38900

Date
August 9, 2024
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Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG) (CIK 0001766400)

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August 9, 2024 Brent Guerisoli Chief Executive Officer and Director The Pennant Group, Inc. 1675 East Riverside Drive, Suite 150 Eagle, ID 83616 Re:The Pennant Group, Inc. Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A Filed April 11, 2024 File No. 001-38900 Dear Brent Guerisoli: We have limited our review of your most recent definitive proxy statement to those issues we have addressed in our comment(s). Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and/or confirming that you will revise your future proxy disclosures in accordance with the topics discussed below. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A Pay Versus Performance, page 27 1.We note that you have included a figure that deducts income attributable to non- controlling interests in column (h) of your pay versus performance table in lieu of net income as required by Item 402(v)(2)(v) of Regulation S-K. In future filings, please include net income (loss), as reported in your audited GAAP financial statements, in column (h) for all years covered by the table. Refer to Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 128D.08. Please note that you may voluntarily provide supplemental measures of net income or financial performance, so long as any additional disclosure is “clearly identified as supplemental, not misleading, and not presented with greater prominence than the required disclosure.” See Pay Versus Performance, Release No. 34-95607 (August 25, 2022) [87 FR 55134 (September 8, 2022)] at Section II.F.3. In footnote 3, you indicate that the peer group used for your pay versus performance disclosures is the same as that used for the stock performance graph in your annual report 2.

August 9, 2024 Page 2 on Form 10-K. You also indicate that The Ensign Group, from which The Pennant Group, Inc. separated in 2019, is “one of the key contributors to the peer group TSR,” but The Ensign Group is not listed in your annual report on Form 10-K as one of the companies in the peer group used for the stock performance graph. Please advise. In addition, we note that the peer group is not a published industry or line-of-business index. In future filings, if the peer group is not a published industry or line-of-business index, please list all of the companies that comprise the peer group. Refer to Item 402(v)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K. 3.Refer to the reconciliation table in footnote 2 to your pay versus performance table. It is unclear what amounts are reflected in the row titled “Year over Year Change in Fair Value of Equity Awards Granted in Prior Year that Vested in the Year.” Specifically, equity awards granted in prior years that vest during the relevant year should be valued as the difference between the fair value as of the end of the prior fiscal year and the vesting date, not the “year over year” change in value. Please ensure that your table headings reflect the amounts used to calculate compensation actually paid. Refer to Item 402(v)(2)(iii)(C)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Laura Nicholson at 202-551-3584 or Amanda Ravitz at 202-551-3412 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Disclosure Review Program

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August 9, 2024
Brent Guerisoli
Chief Executive Officer and Director
The Pennant Group, Inc.
1675 East Riverside Drive, Suite 150
Eagle, ID 83616
Re:The Pennant Group, Inc.
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed April 11, 2024
File No. 001-38900
Dear Brent Guerisoli:
            We have limited our review of your most recent definitive proxy statement to those issues
we have addressed in our comment(s).
            Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and/or confirming that
you will revise your future proxy disclosures in accordance with the topics discussed below. If
you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your
response.
            After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Pay Versus Performance, page 27
1.We note that you have included a figure that deducts income attributable to non-
controlling interests in column (h) of your pay versus performance table in lieu of net
income as required by Item 402(v)(2)(v) of Regulation S-K. In future filings, please
include net income (loss), as reported in your audited GAAP financial statements, in
column (h) for all years covered by the table. Refer to Regulation S-K Compliance and
Disclosure Interpretation 128D.08. Please note that you may voluntarily provide
supplemental measures of net income or financial performance, so long as any additional
disclosure is “clearly identified as supplemental, not misleading, and not presented with
greater prominence than the required disclosure.” See Pay Versus Performance, Release
No. 34-95607 (August 25, 2022) [87 FR 55134 (September 8, 2022)] at Section II.F.3.
In footnote 3, you indicate that the peer group used for your pay versus performance
disclosures is the same as that used for the stock performance graph in your annual report 2.

August 9, 2024
Page 2
on Form 10-K. You also indicate that The Ensign Group, from which The Pennant Group,
Inc. separated in 2019, is “one of the key contributors to the peer group TSR,” but The
Ensign Group is not listed in your annual report on Form 10-K as one of the companies in
the peer group used for the stock performance graph. Please advise. In addition, we note
that the peer group is not a published industry or line-of-business index. In future filings,
if the peer group is not a published industry or line-of-business index, please list all of the
companies that comprise the peer group. Refer to Item 402(v)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K.
3.Refer to the reconciliation table in footnote 2 to your pay versus performance table. It is
unclear what amounts are reflected in the row titled “Year over Year Change in Fair
Value of Equity Awards Granted in Prior Year that Vested in the Year.” Specifically,
equity awards granted in prior years that vest during the relevant year should be valued as
the difference between the fair value as of the end of the prior fiscal year and the vesting
date, not the “year over year” change in value. Please ensure that your table headings
reflect the amounts used to calculate compensation actually paid. Refer to Item
402(v)(2)(iii)(C)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K.
            We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
            Please contact Laura Nicholson at 202-551-3584 or Amanda Ravitz at 202-551-3412 with
any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Disclosure Review Program