Michael Dean Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer of Travel & Leisure Co. (NYSE:TNL), completed a series of option exercises and subsequent open-market sales on April 16 and April 17, 2026, disposing of a total of 10,552 common shares and collecting $834,747 in gross proceeds.
On April 16, Mr. Brown sold 1,109 shares of common stock at a weighted average price of $79.133 per share. The individual transactions on that date traded between $79.00 and $79.340. Those sales came after he exercised stock options to acquire an equal number of shares at an exercise price of $44.38 per share.
The following day, April 17, Mr. Brown sold an additional 9,443 shares at a weighted average price of $79.105 per share, with the executions ranging from $79.00 to $79.290. As on April 16, these sales were preceded by the exercise of stock options to obtain 9,443 shares at $44.38 per share.
Combined, the option exercises resulted in the acquisition of 10,552 shares at a uniform exercise price of $44.38 per share, representing a cash outlay of $468,297. The subsequent sales of those shares produced proceeds totaling $834,747; across the reported transactions, sale prices clustered around the $79.105 to $79.133 range.
All of the transactions were implemented under a prearranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that Mr. Brown adopted on November 25, 2025. The options exercised trace back to grants made on March 7, 2019, under the Registrant’s Equity and Incentive Plan. Those options vested in four equal installments on each of the first four anniversaries of the grant date.
Following the transactions disclosed for April 16 and 17, Mr. Brown’s direct holdings consist of 288,134 common shares and 24,326 derivative shares in the form of stock options.
Investors will have an additional data point ahead of the company’s upcoming earnings report, with Travel & Leisure Co. scheduled to report results on April 22. The timing of these insider sales - formally executed under a Rule 10b5-1 program - will likely be considered in the context of that scheduled release.
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