Baker Kevin L 4

What Happened

• Kevin L. Baker, Vice President of a subsidiary of Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), exercised stock options on 2026-05-06 for 2,800 shares at an exercise price of $52.20 (total cost $146,160) and sold those 2,800 shares the same day in an open-market transaction at $69.96 per share (sale proceeds $195,888). The filing records both the option exercise (transaction code M) and the open-market sale (transaction code S).

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-05-06.
• Exercise: 2,800 shares at $52.20 each = $146,160 (M).
• Sale: 2,800 shares at $69.96 each = $195,888 (S).
• Shares owned after transaction: not specified in the provided filing extract.
• Notable footnotes: F1 notes holdings in the company 401(k) stock fund (share equivalents). Footnotes F2–F10 list multiple vesting schedules for restricted awards (various future vesting dates/amounts).
• Filing timeliness: report filed on 2026-05-06 for transactions on 2026-05-06 (no late filing indicated).

Context

• This appears to be a cashless-type transaction where options were exercised and the resulting shares were sold the same day. In Form 4 filings, M = option exercise/conversion and S = sale. Sales are common insider activity and do not by themselves indicate management sentiment; purchases tend to be a stronger signal of bullishness.