NorthWestern Energy (NWE) Director Jeffrey Yingling Receives Award

What Happened
Jeffrey W. Yingling, a director of NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. (NWE), was granted 524 shares (issued as deferred share units) on August 4, 2026. The grant is reported at a per-share grant price of $71.62, for a total reported value of $37,529. This transaction is an award/grant (transaction code A), not an open-market purchase or sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-08-04; Form 4 filed: 2026-08-05 (filed timely).
• Grant details: 524 shares @ $71.62 per share = $37,529 (grant price as of June 30, 2026).
• Security issued as deferred share units (DSUs) on 2026-08-04.
• Footnotes: grant was the Q3 2026 non-employee director stock grant (F1); includes underlying DSUs issuable after termination of service (F2); grant price dated 6/30/2026 and shares issued as DSUs on 8/4/2026 (F3); includes shares acquired from dividend reinvestment (F4).
• Shares owned after the transaction: not specified in the provided summary.

Context
This is routine director compensation: DSUs defer delivery/value until a later date (often after leaving service) and are common for non-employee directors. Awards like this are compensation, not an immediate buy or sell signal about the director’s view of the stock.