Deere & Co (DE) Ryan D. Campbell Exercises Options and Sells Shares

What Happened
Ryan D. Campbell, President, WWC&F and Power Systems at Deere & Co., exercised a total of 4,860 option shares on 2026-08-31 (four tranches) by paying about $1.706M in exercise prices, then sold the same 4,860 shares in open-market transactions for roughly $3.165M. The exercises (reported as "M") and sales ("S") were executed the same day and documented in a Form 4 filed 2026-09-02.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-08-31; Form 4 filed: 2026-09-02. No late filing flag shown in the filing.
• Options exercised (total 4,860 shares):
  • 1,079 shares @ $254.83 = $274,962
  • 1,775 shares @ $343.94 = $610,494
  • 1,049 shares @ $438.44 = $459,924
  • 957 shares @ $377.01 = $360,799
  • Total exercise cost ≈ $1,706,179.
• Open‑market sales (total 4,860 shares) in multiple trades with weighted averages and ranges noted: total proceeds ≈ $3,164,765. Footnotes list price ranges for the separate sale batches.
• Net cash (proceeds minus exercise cost) ≈ $1,458,586 (approximate).
• Footnotes of note: F1 — exercises and sales were executed pursuant to a Rule 16b‑3 option exercise and a Rule 10b5‑1 trading plan adopted March 3, 2026. F2–F6 — reported sale prices are weighted averages; detailed per‑trade prices are available on request. Several footnotes (F8–F11) describe original option vesting schedules.
• Shares owned after the transactions are not specified in the data provided on this summary.

Context

• This is an example of an executive exercising vested options and selling the resulting shares the same day — commonly a cashless exercise followed by sale, here carried out under a pre‑arranged 10b5‑1 plan (reduces appearance of trading on inside information).
• Transaction codes: M = option exercise/conversion, S = open‑market sale. The $0 "disposed" derivative lines reflect conversion/termination of the option instruments as part of the exercise bookkeeping.
• These transactions are routine for executives monetizing vested equity; purchases generally carry more signal than sales, but this filing shows both the acquisition (exercise) and immediate sale.