STEPAN CO — Director's Dealing 2018

Mar 19, 2018

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: STEPAN CO (SCL)
CIK: 0000094049
Period of Report: 2018-03-15

Reporting Person: Moriarty Sean Thomas (VP & GM Polymers)

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2018-03-15	Share Units	$	A	14.01	Acquired		Common Stock (14.01)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Share Units acquired under the Management Incentive Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 2015) ("MIP"), a nonqualified deferred compensation plan which allows MIP participants to elect to defer all or a portion of their deferred compensation into accounts pursuant to MIP provisions that convert on a one-for-one basis into Common Stock.

F2: Share Units convert on a one-for-one basis into Common Stock.

F3: Reflects acquisition of Share Units pursuant to a dividend equivalent feature of the MIP, generally payable at end of employment, unless otherwise elected.

F4: Price reported is the price of Common Stock on the date the dividend equivalents are payable pursuant to a dividend equivalent feature of the MIP.