0001209191-18-026422.txt : 20180427 0001209191-18-026422.hdr.sgml : 20180427 20180427132512 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-18-026422 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20180426 FILED AS OF DATE: 20180427 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20180427 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Taylor Matthew Freeman CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381969 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-08408 FILM NUMBER: 18782534 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 839 SOUTHRIDGE GREENS BLVD CITY: FORT COLLINS STATE: CO ZIP: 80525 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Woodward, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000108312 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIAL APPARATUS [3620] IRS NUMBER: 361984010 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1081 WOODWARD WAY CITY: FORT COLLINS STATE: CO ZIP: 80524 BUSINESS PHONE: 970-482-5811 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1081 WOODWARD WAY CITY: FORT COLLINS STATE: CO ZIP: 80524 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: WOODWARD GOVERNOR CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2018-04-26 0 0000108312 Woodward, Inc. WWD 0001381969 Taylor Matthew Freeman 1081 WOODWARD WAY FORT COLLINS CO 80615 0 1 0 0 President, Airframe Systems Woodward, Inc. Common Stock 2018-04-26 4 M 0 4000 18.67 A 8297 D Woodward, Inc. Common Stock 2018-04-26 4 S 0 4000 73.2527 D 4297 D Woodward, Inc. Common Stock 3423.21 I By Woodward Retirement Savings Plan Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy) 18.67 2018-04-26 4 M 0 4000 0.00 D 2009-11-24 2018-11-24 Woodward, Inc. Common Stock 4000 0 D The reporting person executed a trade order through a broker-dealer which resulted in multiple same day, same way open market purchases, with prices ranging from $73.2505 to $73.27 per share. The reporting person has reported these purchases on an aggregate basis using the weighted average price for the transactions. The reporting person undertakes to provide, upon request by the Securities and Exchange Commission staff, the Company or a security holder of the Company, full information regarding the number of shares purchased at each separate price. The information in this report regarding the number of shares held by the reporting person in the Woodward Retirement Savings Plan (the "Plan") is based on a calculation as of April 26, 2018 and includes 192.21 shares acquired under the Plan since the date of the reporting person's last Form 4 with Table I reporting. Options, which expire November 24, 2018, became exercisable as to 25% of the shares on November 24, 2009 and each one-year anniversary thereafter. Rebecca L. Dees, by Power of Attorney 2018-04-27 EX-24.4_785302 2 poa.txt POA DOCUMENT POWER OF ATTORNEY Known all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints David H. Haddon, Lynsey L. Weimer, Phoebe A. Larson, or Rebecca L. Dees, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) Execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Woodward, Inc. (the "Company") Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities and exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (2) Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such form 3, 4, and 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and (3) Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 6th day of February, 2018. /s/ Matthew F. Taylor Signature Matthew F. Taylor Print Name