Swift Christopher 4
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Hartford (HIG) CEO Christopher Swift Exercises Options and Sells Shares
What Happened
- Christopher Swift, Chairman & CEO of Hartford Insurance Group (HIG), exercised 201,938 stock options (exercise price $48.89; total exercise cost reported $9,872,749) on Feb 2, 2026, and on the same day sold the 201,938 resulting shares in multiple open-market transactions for total proceeds of approximately $27.55M.
- Sales were executed in several blocks at prices ranging roughly from $135.04 to $137.14 per share (individual blocks and proceeds listed below). The Form 4 also reports a derivative/conversion entry for 201,938 shares at $0.00 (recorded as a disposal).
Key Details
- Transaction date: Feb 2, 2026; Form filed Feb 4, 2026.
- Option exercise: 201,938 shares @ $48.89 = $9,872,749 (code M).
- Sales (code S), all on Feb 2, 2026:
- 7,598 sh @ $137.08 = $1,041,503
- 7,845 sh @ $137.09 = $1,075,433
- 19,734 sh @ $135.54 = $2,674,662
- 19,834 sh @ $135.56 = $2,688,755
- 73,390 sh @ $136.57 = $10,023,056
- 73,537 sh @ $136.58 = $10,043,529
- Total sold: 201,938 shares; total proceeds ≈ $27,546,938.
- A separate derivative entry lists 201,938 shares disposed at $0.00 (reported as exercise/conversion/disposition).
- Footnotes note the trades were executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted Nov 3, 2025; the exercised options were granted in 2017 and expire Feb 28, 2027.
- Beneficial ownership after the transaction is not specified in the provided excerpt.
- Filing appears timely (transactions 2/2/2026; Form filed 2/4/2026).
Context
- This is an option exercise (M) followed by immediate open-market sales (S) of the same number of shares — a common pattern when executives exercise vested options and sell shares (often to cover exercise costs, taxes, or for diversification). The presence of a pre-established 10b5-1 plan indicates the sales were executed under a pre-set program, not necessarily a reactive trade.
- Transaction codes: M = option exercise/conversion; S = sale. The $0.00 derivative disposal entry reflects how the exercise/conversion was reported on the Form 4, per the filing.