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uniQure (QURE) CEO Matthew Kapusta Exercises Options, Sells Shares
What Happened
- Matthew C. Kapusta, CEO and Managing Director of uniQure (QURE), exercised stock options and sold shares on June 24–25, 2026. He exercised a total of 32,844 shares at an exercise price of $31.71 (total exercise cost $1,041,483) and sold a total of 35,412 shares in open-market transactions for aggregate proceeds of about $1,771,174.
- The sales were executed at weighted-average prices of about $50.00–$50.02 (range reported $50.00–$50.30 for some trades). The filing also records the related disposition of the derivative instruments (options) on the exercise dates.
Key Details
- Transaction dates: June 24, 2026 and June 25, 2026; Form 4 filed June 26, 2026 (timely).
- Options exercised: 4,128 shares (6/24) and 28,716 shares (6/25) at $31.71 per share (reporting shows exercise cost totals of $130,899 and $910,584).
- Shares sold: 6,696 shares on 6/24 at a weighted average of $50.00 (proceeds $334,800) and 28,716 shares on 6/25 at $50.02 (proceeds $1,436,374). Total sale proceeds ≈ $1,771,174.
- Footnotes: Sales executed pursuant to a 10b5-1 trading plan adopted Oct 5, 2025 (F1). The 6/24 sale price reported is a weighted average across multiple trades in the $50.00–$50.30 range (F2). The stock option vested in full on Jan 25, 2023 (F3).
- Shares owned after the transactions: not disclosed in this filing.
Context
- This filing shows an option exercise followed by immediate open-market sales of the resulting shares, consistent with a sell-under-plan or cashless exercise pattern. The 10b5-1 plan note indicates the sales were pre-arranged to comply with insider trading rules.
- These are routine executive transactions to monetize vested options; filings are factual records and do not on their own indicate company performance or insider sentiment.