California Water (CWT) VP Kristan Hamner Surrenders 42 Shares for Taxes

What Happened Kristan A. Hamner, Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer of California Water Service Group (CWT), surrendered 42 shares to the company on Sept 4, 2026 to satisfy tax withholding obligations. The transaction is reported as code F (payment of exercise price or tax liability): 42 shares at $50.03 per share, value reported ≈ $2,101. This was a withholding of shares to cover taxes on the vesting of a Restricted Stock Award—not an open-market sale.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-09-04; Filing date: 2026-09-08 (no late filing flag indicated).
• Price/value: $50.03 per share; total ≈ $2,101 (42 shares).
• Shares owned after the transaction: not specified in the provided filing.
• Transaction code: F = tax withholding/payment of liability (surrendered shares).
• Footnotes: F1—shares withheld and surrendered to satisfy tax withholding from the vesting of an RSA granted Mar 4, 2025. F2—note indicating inclusion of shares acquired through the ESPP (as applicable to other entries).

Context This was a routine tax-withholding share surrender tied to vested restricted stock (a common administrative action) rather than a discretionary market sale or purchase. Such withholdings are standard and do not, by themselves, indicate the insider’s market view.