Ramirez Elisa Z 4

What Happened
Elisa Z. Ramirez, a director of Peoples Financial Services Corp. (PFIS), was granted 297 shares as a stock award under the company’s director compensation plan on January 30, 2026. The award is reported at $0.00 per share in the filing (transaction code A), so the filing lists no cash value for the grant itself.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-01-30; Form 4 filed: 2026-02-03 (timely — within the usual 2-business-day reporting window).
• Transaction: Grant/award (code A) — 297 shares at $0.00 per share (reported value $0).
• Holdings reported in the filing (footnote): 1,262.8500 shares held individually by Ms. Ramirez (this includes 46.1260 shares acquired in 2025 via the issuer’s Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan) and 500 shares held jointly with her spouse.
• Footnotes: F1 — award granted under the director compensation plan; F2 — breakdown of shares included in reported holdings.
• No indication in the Form 4 of a sale, option exercise, tax withholding, 10b5‑1 plan, or late filing.

Context
Director stock awards are a common form of non-cash compensation and do not carry the same market-sentiment signal as an open-market purchase by an insider. The filing does not specify vesting or transfer restrictions for this award; such conditions, if any, would be disclosed elsewhere (e.g., proxy or grant agreement). For retail investors, this is useful to track insider compensation but should not be interpreted alone as a bullish purchase by management.