SEC Form 4 · accession 0000874977-17-000018
State Auto Financial CORP · STFC
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗
Reporting owner
Steven Eugene English
Officer — Senior Vice President
Period of report
Mar 10, 2017
Accepted (ET)
Mar 16, 2017 · 11:01 am EDT
Rule 10b5-1 plan
unknown — predates the checkbox
Issuer CIK
0000874977
Table I — non-derivative securities
| Security | Date | Code | Shares | Price | A/D | Owned after | D/I | Nature of ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Shares without par valueF1 | Mar 10, 2017 | F | 914 | $27.18 | D | 21,803 | D |
Table II — derivative securities
No Table II lines on this filing.
Explanation of responses
- F1Includes the following acquisitions: 60.221 shares acquired in March 2016, 63.769 shares acquired in June 2016, 58.762 shares acquired in September 2016 and 51.636 shares acquired in December 2016 under the STFC Dividend Reinvestment Plan; 539.950 shares acquired in June 2016 and 514.339 shares acquired in December 2016 through the State Auto Financial Corp. Employee Stock Purchase Plan; 45.063, 42.513 and 39.439 shares acquired in 2016 as Restricted Reinvestment.
- F2Represents common shares surrendered by the reporting person to STFC (or disposed to the issuer thereof) for payment of tax liability incident to a prior stock award of 2,572 common shares which vested on March 6, 2017. Prior thereto, such disposition to the issuer had been approved by the STFC Compensation Committee pursuant to Rule 16-b-3 (e) and is therefore exempt from the provisions of Section 16 (b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The price per share of $27.18 represents the closing price of STFC's common shares on March 6, 2017.