Nardecchia Christopher 4

4 · ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC · Filed Feb 27, 2026

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Updated Feb 28, 2026

Rockwell Automation (ROK) CIO Christopher Nardecchia Exercises Options and Sells Shares

What Happened

Christopher Nardecchia, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Rockwell Automation (ROK), exercised stock options on 2026-02-26 to acquire 14,465 shares and immediately sold those 14,465 shares in an open-market transaction. The option exercises had aggregate exercise costs of $3,061,891 (breakdown below). The open-market sale generated proceeds of $5,930,806 (weighted average sale price $410.01), resulting in approximately $2.87M in gross proceeds before taxes/fees.
Exercise detail (all 2026-02-26, code M): 500 shares @ $192.86 ($96,430); 7,000 shares @ $171.46 ($1,200,220); 3,400 shares @ $246.77 ($839,018); 3,565 shares @ $259.81 ($926,223). Sale detail: 14,465 shares sold at a weighted avg $410.01 (range $410.00–$410.13) for $5,930,806.

Key Details

Transaction date: 2026-02-26; filing date: 2026-02-27 (timely).
Sale price: weighted average $410.01 (shares sold ranged $410.00–$410.13).
Shares acquired by exercise: 14,465; shares sold: 14,465 — net change in immediate holdings from these transactions appears to be zero.
Notable footnotes: F1 — shares exercised and sold pursuant to a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 plan (entered 11/26/2025). F2 — sale price is a weighted average; reporting person can provide per-price breakdown on request. F3 — filing notes additional plan-held stock fund units may be included in reported balances. F4 — referenced options vest in three annual installments (vesting schedule).
Shares owned after transaction: not specified in the provided excerpt of the filing.

Context

This pattern—exercising options and immediately selling the resulting shares—is commonly a cashless exercise plus sale to cover exercise cost/taxes or to take liquidity. Because the sale was executed under a 10b5-1 plan, it was pre-arranged and should not be interpreted as a new, unscheduled signal of sentiment.
For retail investors: purchases are generally considered more informative than routine option exercises followed by sales. This filing documents a scheduled exercise/sale that generated material proceeds for the insider but did not clearly increase insider share ownership.

Form 4

Period: 2026-02-26

SVP, Chief Information Officer

Transactions

Exercise/Conversion
Common Stock
2026-02-26$192.86/sh+500$96,430→ 14,732 total
Exercise/Conversion
Common Stock
2026-02-26$171.46/sh+7,000$1,200,220→ 21,732 total
Exercise/Conversion
Common Stock
2026-02-26$246.77/sh+3,400$839,018→ 25,132 total
Exercise/Conversion
Common Stock
2026-02-26$259.81/sh+3,565$926,223→ 28,697 total
Sale
Common Stock
[F1][F2]
2026-02-26$410.01/sh−14,465$5,930,806→ 14,232 total
Exercise/Conversion
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
[F4]
2026-02-26−500→ 0 total
Exercise: $192.86From: 2018-12-08Exp: 2027-12-08→ Common Stock (500 underlying)
Exercise/Conversion
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
[F4]
2026-02-26−7,000→ 0 total
Exercise: $171.46From: 2019-12-04Exp: 2028-12-04→ Common Stock (7,000 underlying)
Exercise/Conversion
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
[F4]
2026-02-26−3,400→ 400 total
Exercise: $246.77From: 2021-12-10Exp: 2030-12-10→ Common Stock (3,400 underlying)
Exercise/Conversion
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
[F4]
2026-02-26−3,565→ 300 total
Exercise: $259.81From: 2023-12-09Exp: 2032-12-09→ Common Stock (3,565 underlying)

Holdings

Footnotes (4)

[F1]Shares exercised and sold pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 plan entered into on 11/26/2025.
[F2]Price reported in column 4 is a weighted average price. Shares sold at prices ranging from $410.00 to $410.13. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the Company, any shareowners of the Company and the staff of the SEC, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price
[F3]Includes shares represented by Company stock fund units acquired under the Company Savings Plan since the date last reported for this person based on information furnished by the Plan Administrator as of 12/31/2025. The number of stock fund units represented by the balance of the participant's Company stock fund account may not exactly equal the number of stock fund units represented by a prior balance due to variance in the proportion of uninvested cash held in the reference fund used to determine unit values of the Company stock fund under the Plan.
[F4]The option vests in three substantially equal annual installments beginning on the date exercisable.

Signature

Danielle White, Attorney-in-fact for Christopher Nardecchia|2026-02-27

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