Darin Harper - 07 Oct 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY)

Reporting relationship: Chief Financial Officer
Issuer ticker: PLAY
Reported as of: 07 Oct 2025
Net transaction value: $0
SEC form: 4
Accepted by SEC: 30 Mar 2026, 17:31:47 UTC
Prior SEC filing: 23 Jun 2025
Next SEC filing: 23 Dec 2025
Source filing: View source filing
Reporting owner signature: Sherri M. Smith, Attorney-in-Fact

Key filing fact

Darin Harper filed Form 4 for Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY) on 30 Mar 2026.

Key facts

This page summarizes Darin Harper's Form 4 filing for Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY).
5 reported transactions and 4 derivative rows are listed below.
Accepted by SEC: 30 Mar 2026, 17:31.

Change

Previous filing in this sequence was filed on 23 Jun 2025.
Current net transaction value: $0.

Research use

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You can trace every row back to the original SEC filing document.

Evidence

Filed on Form 4

Ownership activity is grounded in SEC Form 4 disclosures.

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Reporting Owners (1)

CIK 0001422482 Primary reporting owner

Harper Darin

Relationship: Chief Financial Officer
Address: 1221 S. BELT LINE RD., SUITE 500, COPPELL
Signature: Sherri M. Smith, Attorney-in-Fact
Signature date: 30 Mar 2026

Reported non-derivative transactions

Shares, units, or other non-derivative securities reported in this filing.

PLAY transaction

Common Stock

Award

Transaction value
Shares: +22,026
Change %: +27%
Price: $0.000000^*
Shares after: 102,498
Date: 07 Oct 2025
Ownership: Direct
Footnotes: F1, F2

Reported derivative securities

Options, warrants, convertible securities, or similar derivative positions disclosed in the filing.

PLAY transaction Derivative

Performance Stock Unit

Disposed to Issuer

Transaction value
Shares: -41,477
Change %: -100%
Price: $0.000000^*
Shares after: 0
Date: 07 Oct 2025
Ownership: Direct
Underlying class: Common Stock
Underlying amount: 41,477
Exercise price
Footnotes: F3

PLAY transaction Derivative

Stock Option (Right to Buy)

Award

Transaction value
Shares: +22,026
Change %
Price: $0.000000^*
Shares after: 22,026
Date: 07 Oct 2025
Ownership: Direct
Underlying class: Common Stock
Underlying amount: 22,026
Exercise price: $22.70
Footnotes: F4

PLAY transaction Derivative

Stock Option (Right to Buy)

Award

Transaction value
Shares: +60,327
Change %
Price: $0.000000^*
Shares after: 60,327
Date: 07 Oct 2025
Ownership: Direct
Underlying class: Common Stock
Underlying amount: 60,327
Exercise price: $22.70
Footnotes: F5

PLAY transaction Derivative

Stock Option (Right to Buy)

Award

Transaction value
Shares: +47,934
Change %
Price: $0.000000^*
Shares after: 47,934
Date: 07 Oct 2025
Ownership: Direct
Underlying class: Common Stock
Underlying amount: 47,934
Exercise price: $34.05
Footnotes: F6

^* marks a reported price that did not pass the local price check.

Additional SEC filing notes

Filing notes and footnotes

Explanation of responses 6 footnotes

Footnote F1

Represents restricted stock units granted to the reporting person under the Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. 2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). The restricted stock units will vest in three equal annual installments on each of July 14, 2026, 2027 and 2028.

Footnote F2

This Form 4 includes the corrected ownership total in Table I, Column 5. The Form 4s filed by the reporting person on December 23, 2025 and February 18, 2026 understated the ownership total in Table I, Column 5 by 22,026 shares due to an administrative error failing to account for the grant of the restricted stock units described further in Note (1).

Footnote F3

Represents the cancellation of the performance-based restricted stock units subject to stock price-based vesting conditions previously granted to the reporting person on June 24, 2024.

Footnote F4

Represents stock options granted to the reporting person under the Plan. The shares underlying these stock options will vest and become exercisable in three equal annual installments on each of July 14, 2026, 2027 and 2028.

Footnote F5

Represents stock options granted to the reporting person under the Plan. The stock options will become earned upon the first date (the "2X Attainment Date") occurring before February 1, 2028 on which the 60-day trailing volume weighted average closing price ("VWAP") of the shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the "Common Stock"), of Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (the "Issuer") is greater than or equal to $64.12. After the 2X Attainment Date, the shares underlying these stock options will vest and become exercisable on either the first or the second anniversary of the 2X Attainment Date depending on the Issuer's 60-day trailing VWAP on the first anniversary of the 2X Attainment Date.

Footnote F6

Represents stock options granted to the reporting person under the Plan. The stock options will become earned upon the first date (the "3X Attainment Date") occurring before February 1, 2028 on which the 60-day trailing VWAP of the Common Stock is greater than or equal to $96.18. After the 3X Attainment Date, the shares underlying these stock options will vest and become exercisable on either the first or the second anniversary of the 3X Attainment Date depending on the Issuer's 60-day trailing VWAP on the first anniversary of the 3X Attainment Date.