APA (APA) Director Charles W. Hooper Receives 1,203-Unit Award

What Happened
Charles W. Hooper, a director of APA Corp (APA), received a grant of 1,203 restricted stock units (RSUs) on September 30, 2026. The grant was reported as an award/acquisition at a reported price of $0.00 (no cash paid). The RSUs immediately vested and were automatically deferred into phantom stock units under APA’s Outside Directors' Deferral Program (ODDP).

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-09-30; Form filed: 2026-10-01 (reporting period 2026-09-30).
• Transaction type/code: Award/Grant (A); reported acquisition price $0.00.
• Newly credited: 1,203 RSUs converted into deferred phantom stock units.
• Amount owned after transaction: 33,074 phantom stock units (1,203 newly deferred + 31,689 previously reported + 182 units from dividend accruals).
• Footnotes: F1 — RSUs granted to non-employee directors under APA’s 2016 Omnibus Compensation Plan and immediately deferred under the ODDP. F2 — Column 5 total includes newly deferred units, prior deferred units, and dividend-accrued phantom units.
• Timeliness: Filing appears timely (no late-report indication).

Context
This transaction is a routine director compensation award that vested immediately and was placed into a deferred (phantom) account rather than resulted in an open-market purchase or sale. Deferred phantom units track the value of APA shares and generally represent future cash or stock settlement under the company's deferral program; they do not necessarily indicate a personal buy/sell decision by the director.