BUTLER HELEN RANKIN 4

What Happened Helen Butler Rankin, a non-employee director of Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Co. (HBB), was reported as receiving an award of 1,581 shares on April 1, 2026. The filing lists this as an award/grant (code A) with no price or total value disclosed (N/A). According to the filing, the shares were awarded to the reporting person's spouse as "Required Shares" under the company's Non-Employee Directors' Equity Compensation Plan; the reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-04-01 (Period of Report); Form 4 filed 2026-04-03. No late filing is indicated in the provided data.
• Transaction type: Award/Grant (code A) of 1,581 shares. Price per share: N/A; total value: N/A.
• Shares owned after transaction: Not disclosed in the provided filing.
• Footnotes: F1 — shares awarded to the reporting person's spouse as "Required Shares" under the Non-Employee Directors' Equity Compensation Plan. F3 — reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares.
• No indication of a 10b5-1 plan, sale, exercise, or tax withholding in the provided details.

Context This was a director compensation award (required shares to a spouse), not an open-market purchase or sale. Such awards are routine for non-employee directors and—since the reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership—do not necessarily indicate a direct change in the insider's personal economic stake. No price or dollar value was reported, so the economic magnitude of the award isn’t disclosed in this filing.