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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-409820"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPK"
cik: "0000019745"
company_name: "CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP"
filed_at: "2026-10-01T11:30:22+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:14:52.252051+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chesapeake Utilities launches $225M at-the-market equity offering program

## Summary
- ATM program permits sales of up to $225,000,000 of common stock (NYSE: CPK) from time to time through managers or forward sellers under shelf registration No. 333-299198.
- Managers: Barclays, Citizens JMP, Ladenburg Thalmann, Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities; forward purchasers include Barclays Bank PLC, Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank.
- Commission to managers up to 2.0% of gross sales price per share; forward sellers receive up to 2.0% of the volume-weighted average price of borrowed shares sold.
- Net proceeds targeted for general corporate purposes: capital expenditures, repayment of short-term debt or revolving credit borrowings, acquisitions, subsidiaries and working capital.
- Equity Distribution Agreement and Master Forward Confirmations dated September 30, 2026; company gets no initial proceeds from borrowed-share sales, expecting cash on future physical settlement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-409820
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPK
- cik: 0000019745
- company_name: CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP
- filed_at: 2026-10-01T11:30:22+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19745/000119312526409820/0001193125-26-409820-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19745/000119312526409820/d141334d8k.htm

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