Roper (ROP) Director Laura Thatcher Receives Restricted Share Award

What Happened
Laura G. Thatcher, a director of Roper Technologies, was granted 1,191 restricted shares on 2026-05-20 under the company’s Director Compensation Plan. The shares were issued at $0.00 (no cash exchanged), so the acquisition value reported is $0. This is an award of restricted stock rather than an open-market purchase or sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-05-20; transaction type: Award/Grant (code A) of 1,191 shares at $0.00 (acquired).
• Filing: Form 4 filed 2026-05-21 (appears timely for a Form 4 report).
• Shares owned after transaction: not specified in the provided filing data.
• Footnote: The restricted shares vest 50% on the 6-month anniversary of the grant date and 50% on the day prior to the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (per footnote F1).
• No 10b5-1 plan, tax-withholding sale, or cashless exercise noted in the provided information.

Context
Restricted-share awards to directors are commonly part of routine compensation and do not necessarily signal immediate trading intent—vested shares may be sold later or retained. Because this was a grant (not a sale), it does not reflect a reduction in insider ownership; it increases the director’s unvested equity position subject to the stated vesting schedule.