Collins Trent Lee 4

What Happened Collins Trent Lee, Senior Vice President of Operations at Green Plains Inc. (GPRE), was granted an award of 21,024 shares on February 27, 2026. The award is recorded at a price of $14.27 per share for a total reported value of $300,012. This transaction is an equity award (code A) — a compensation/retention grant rather than an open-market purchase or sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date: February 27, 2026; price used: $14.27 per share; total value: $300,012.
• Vesting: One-third of the award vests on February 27, 2027, with the remaining two-thirds vesting in equal one-third installments on each of the next two anniversaries (footnote F1).
• Price basis: The $14.27 price is based on the company’s closing stock price on February 9, 2026 (footnote F2).
• Shares owned after the transaction: Not disclosed in the provided filing.
• Filing date: March 2, 2026 — the Form 4 was filed promptly following the Feb. 27 grant (timely filing).

Context This was an equity compensation award, subject to a multi-year vesting schedule, so shares are not fully transferable immediately. Such grants are common for executive compensation and retention; they do not by themselves indicate buying or selling sentiment in the open market.