Sony (SONY) CPO Ito Yasuhiro Exercises Options

What Happened
Ito Yasuhiro, Chief People Officer of Sony Group Corp (SONY), exercised stock options on 2026-09-11 to acquire 9,000 shares at an exercise price of $8.35 per share, for a total cash payment of $75,150. The filing also records a related conversion/disposition of 9,000 derivative securities at $0, consistent with conversion of the derivative into common stock as part of the exercise process. The Form 4 was filed on 2026-09-15 (reporting period 2026-09-11).

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-09-11. Filing date: 2026-09-15 (timely within SEC two-business-day rule).
• Primary transaction: Exercise/conversion (code M) — 9,000 shares acquired @ $8.35 = $75,150.
• Related entry: 9,000 derivative securities shown disposed @ $0 (reflects conversion into common stock).
• Shares owned after the transaction: not specified in the filing.
• Footnotes: F1 — USD conversion used $0.00648 per JPY 1.00. F2 — Option was granted 2018-11-20 and vested in three equal installments (10/31/2020, 11/20/2020, 11/20/2021).

Context
This was an exercise of existing options (not an open-market purchase or sale). There is no separate sale reported of the acquired shares in this filing (i.e., not a cashless sale). Exercises are routine for option holders and represent the insider paying to convert options into shares; they are factual transactions rather than clear signals of future company performance.