Christopher Posner - May 5, 2023 Form 4 Insider Report for Cara Therapeutics, Inc. (CARA)

Signature
/s/Darren DeStefano, Attorney-in-Fact
Stock symbol
CARA
Transactions as of
May 5, 2023
Transactions value $
-$17,024
Form type
4
Date filed
5/9/2023, 04:22 PM
Previous filing
Mar 7, 2023
Next filing
Aug 4, 2023

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction CARA Common Stock Sale -$17K -3.87K -2.19% $4.40 173K May 5, 2023 Direct F1
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 This sale was effected pursuant to a "sell to cover" arrangement adopted by the Reporting Person on November 2, 2022 in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 to satisfy the tax withholding obligations triggered by the vesting of restricted stock units and does not represent a discretionary trade by the Reporting Person.