BAHAI AHMAD 4

What Happened
Bahai Ahmad, Senior Vice President at Texas Instruments (TXN), exercised 3,000 stock options on Feb 5, 2026 at a $79.26 strike (cost $237,780) and sold 3,000 shares in an open‑market transaction the same day for total proceeds of approximately $670,387. The Form 4 also reports a related derivative disposition of 3,000 shares at $0.00, reflecting the conversion/settlement of the exercised options.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-02-05 (Form 4 filed 2026-02-06 — appears timely).
• Exercise: 3,000 options at $79.26 = $237,780 paid.
• Sale: 3,000 shares sold at a weighted average price of $223.46 = $670,387; sale prices ranged $223.42–$223.525 (footnote F1).
• Reported derivative disposition: 3,000 shares at $0.00 associated with the option conversion.
• Vesting note: the option became exercisable in four equal annual installments beginning Jan 26, 2018 (footnote F2).
• Shares owned after transaction: not provided in the supplied filing excerpt.

Context
This is an option exercise followed by an immediate open‑market sale (common “cashless” pattern). Such transactions are often routine (exercising vested options and selling shares to cover cost/taxes) and do not on their own indicate insider sentiment about the company’s stock price.