Plouffe Justin 4

What Happened
Justin Plouffe, Chief Financial Officer of Carlyle Group Inc. (CG), received two restricted stock unit (RSU) awards totaling 50,474 shares (40,770 and 9,704 RSUs) on February 1, 2026. On the same date, 2,792 shares were withheld by the issuer to satisfy tax withholding obligations related to vested awards; the withholding is reported as a disposition at $58.78 per share for a value of $164,114. The RSUs were granted at $0.00 (compensation awards), not open-market purchases.

Key Details

• Transaction date: February 1, 2026. Withheld shares: 2,792 @ $58.78 = $164,114 (disposition for tax withholding). Grants: 40,770 RSUs and 9,704 RSUs @ $0.00 (awards).
• Shares owned after the transaction: not specified in the filing.
• Footnotes: F1 clarifies the 2,792-share disposition was issuer withholding to pay taxes from vesting (no open-market sale by Plouffe). F2 and F3 set vesting schedules for the grants (see Context).
• Filing timeliness: the filing shows the transactions on 2026-02-01 and was filed on 2026-02-03; no late-filing indication noted in the report.

Context

• The awards are RSUs (restricted stock units). F2 award vests 40% on Aug 1, 2027, 30% on Aug 1, 2028 and 30% on Aug 1, 2029, conditional on continued service. F3 award vests one-third on each of Feb 1, 2027, Feb 1, 2028 and Feb 1, 2029, also subject to continued service.
• The 2,792 shares were withheld by the company to satisfy tax obligations related to vesting — a routine administrative action that does not represent an open-market sale by the insider.