Brian E Shore, chief executive officer of Park Aerospace Corp, sold 46,250 shares of $PKE on Aug. 11, 2026, at $37.3163 per share, for a total of $1,725,878.88. The transaction was recorded as an open-market sale, which means it was executed outside a company equity plan. The Form 4 covering the sale was dated Aug. 12, 2026, one day after the trade. After the sale, Shore held 621,369 shares of the aerospace and defense company, according to the filing.
The Aug. 11 sale followed another Shore sale on the previous trading day. On Aug. 10, he sold 30,000 $PKE shares at $37.09 per share, for $1,112,700. That transaction was disclosed in the same Aug. 12 filing, two days after the trade. Both August sales were open-market transactions. Across the two August trading days, Shore reported sales of 76,250 $PKE shares for a combined $2,838,578.88. The filing listed the same 621,369-share total held after both August transactions.
Other $PKE insiders also filed sales in recent months. Mark A Esquivel, the company's chief operating officer, sold 60,000 shares on July 29 at $33.11 per share, for $1,986,600, and reported the transaction on July 30. The July 29 sale was the largest of the four transactions by share count, at 60,000 shares. Carl William Smith, a director, sold 3,000 shares on Nov. 6, 2025, at $19.44 per share, for $58,320, and filed the same day. The November 2025 sale price of $19.44 per share was below the July and August 2026 sale prices. The four transactions spanned three different insider roles at the company.
On Aug. 7, the trading session before the Aug. 10 sale, $PKE closed at $37.67. On Aug. 10, the stock closed at $36.84. On Aug. 11, $PKE shares opened at $37.01 and closed at $37.47, within a trading range of $36.64 to $37.60. The reported sale price of $37.3163 was inside that range. Park Aerospace Corp had a market capitalization of about $819.4 million at the time of the filing.
After the Aug. 11 sale, Shore's remaining position stood at 621,369 shares. Among the four $PKE insider transactions reviewed, the Aug. 11 sale was the second-largest by dollar value, behind the $1,986,600 sale reported by Esquivel in July. The four filings covered transactions dated from Nov. 6, 2025, through Aug. 11, 2026. The most recent $PKE insider transactions in the database were all sales, and none was recorded as a purchase. The dataset contained no congressional STOCK Act disclosures for $PKE during the periods reviewed.