Riesterer Terry L. 4

What Happened

• Terry L. Riesterer, Vice President and Controller of Rockwell Automation (ROK), exercised multiple stock options and sold shares on May 7–8, 2026. He exercised a total of 3,824 shares at various strike prices for a combined cash cost of about $960,190, and sold 4,024 shares in open-market transactions for total proceeds of about $1,818,722. The activity looks like option exercises with concurrent open-market sales (common for exercise-to-sell or sell-to-cover transactions).

Key Details

• Exercise (acquired): 900 @ $246.77 (222,093); 1,246 @ $259.81 (323,723); 778 @ $279.50 (217,451); 500 @ $196.43 (98,215); 400 @ $246.77 (98,708). Total exercised = 3,824 shares; total cost ≈ $960,190.
• Open-market sales (disposed): 1,100 @ $451.83 (497,015) and 2,924 @ $452.02 (1,321,707). Total sold = 4,024 shares; proceeds ≈ $1,818,722.
• The Form 4 also shows matching “exercise/conversion” derivative dispositions at $0 for the exercised option lots (these represent the option instruments being converted/exercised).
• Shares owned after the transactions are not specified in the information provided.
• Footnotes: F1 — counts may include company stock fund units from the Company Savings Plan as of 3/31/2026; F2 — the options vest in three substantially equal annual installments beginning on the date exercisable.
• Filing timing: Report filed 2026-05-08 for transactions on 2026-05-07–05-08 (filed the next day), so appears timely.

Context

• For retail investors: exercising options and immediately selling some or all of the resulting shares is a common way for insiders to cover option costs and taxes; it is not necessarily a directional vote on the company. Here, exercised shares (~3,824) are slightly fewer than shares sold (~4,024), implying some sales may have come from previously held shares or from a mix of exercised and existing holdings.
• The $0 “disposed” derivative entries simply reflect the conversion/settlement of option contracts upon exercise.