CHILDERS D BRADLEY 4

What Happened Bradley Childers, President & CEO and a director of Archrock, surrendered 74,714 shares of Archrock common stock on 2026-01-27 to satisfy tax withholding obligations tied to the vesting of restricted shares. The shares were surrendered at a reported per-share value of $27.85, for a total value of $2,080,785. This was a tax-withholding share surrender (transaction code F), not an open-market sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-01-27; Form 4 filed: 2026-01-28.
• Disposition: 74,714 shares withheld at $27.85 per share = $2,080,785.
• Transaction code: F (issuer withheld maximum allowable shares to satisfy tax withholding).
• Shares owned after transaction: not specified in the provided excerpt.
• Footnotes: F1 notes the issuer withheld shares for taxes; F2 notes 979 shares were acquired since the last Form 4 via the company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Filing timeliness: filed the day after the transaction; no indication of a late filing in the provided data.

Context This was a routine cashless/share-withholding action to cover withholding taxes on vested restricted stock, which is common for equity compensation—different from an open-market sale that might signal a change in sentiment. The filing reports a disposition of shares to meet tax obligations rather than a discretionary sale by the insider.