Mark A Esquivel, Chief Operating Officer of Park Aerospace Corp (**NYSE: $PKE), sold 60,000 shares of company stock on July 29, 2026, in an open-market transaction totaling $1,986,600. The shares were sold at an average price of $33.11 each, according to a Form 4 filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 30, one day after the trade.
Following the transaction, Esquivel reported direct ownership of 15,000 shares of Park Aerospace common stock. The sale reduced his position by 80%, as the 60,000 shares sold and 15,000 retained imply a pre-transaction holding of approximately 75,000 shares.
The Form 4 filing lists Esquivel's role as Chief Operating Officer of the company. Park Aerospace Corp, headquartered in Newton, Kansas, develops and manufactures advanced composite materials and components for the aerospace and defense industry. The company carries a market capitalization of approximately $751 million and trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
The only other recent insider transaction on $PKE recorded in the database was a sale by Director Carl William Smith, who sold 3,000 shares at $19.44 per share on November 6, 2025. That open-market transaction totaled $58,320, and Smith reported owning 1,000 shares afterward. The two sales occurred roughly eight months apart and differed substantially in both share count and dollar value. No other $PKE insiders filed Form 4s during the intervening period.
No members of Congress have disclosed trades in Park Aerospace stock, based on STOCK Act filings available in the database.
$PKE shares declined through the month of July 2026. The stock closed at $38.23 on July 1 and ended the month at $33.09 on July 29, the date of Esquivel's trade. The sale price of $33.11 was within two cents of the closing price that day. Over the course of the month, the stock saw a daily low of $31.33 on July 16 and traded as high as $39.86 on July 2.
Esquivel's Form 4 was filed on July 30, 2026, meeting the SEC's requirement that open-market transactions by corporate insiders be reported within two business days.