What are insiders buying?
Executives and directors have to report their trades in their own company's stock within two business days. Here are the open market purchases, the stocks where several insiders bought at once, and the biggest sales, straight from the filings.
Insider Buying in 30 seconds
Company executives and directors must report their own trades within two business days. When they spend their own money buying shares at the market price, it is public and it is here.
Latest buys
Open market purchases by officers, directors and big holders, newest first. Stake change shows how much the buy added to what that person already held: a 50% increase says more than 1%.
Cluster buys
Stocks where two or more different insiders bought in the same window. Several people with inside knowledge of the business buying at once is the pattern people watch most.
Big sales
Open market sales of $50,000 or more. Treat them with care: insiders sell to pay tax, diversify or buy a house, so a sale says much less than a purchase. Plan marks sales scheduled in advance.
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Type a ticker to read that company's last year of insider filings straight from the SEC, with a link to every original filing.
What every number on this page means
- Insider
- An officer, director, or an owner of more than 10% of the company.
- Value
- Shares traded times the price paid, in dollars.
- Stake change
- Shares traded against the insider's holding before the trade.
- Plan
- The filer says the trade was made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan set up beforehand.
- Filed
- The date the Form 4 reached the SEC. The trade itself can be up to two business days earlier.
Good to know. Insiders can be early, wrong, or buying for reasons that have nothing to do with the share price. Filings can be amended; the SEC filing linked on each row is the authority. Nothing here is advice to buy or sell.
Where this comes from
- Source. Every Form 4 filed with the SEC, read from EDGAR, the SEC's public filing system. Company officers, directors and owners of more than 10% of a company must file one within two business days of a trade.
- Buys are open market purchases (transaction code P): the insider paid for shares at the market price with their own money. Grants, option exercises and awards are left out because they are not a decision to buy.
- Sales are open market sales (code S) of $50,000 or more. Insiders sell for many reasons, such as taxes, diversification or a home purchase, so a sale says less than a purchase.
- Plan marks trades the filer says were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan set up in advance.
- Stake change is the shares traded compared with what the insider held before the trade, from the holdings reported on the same filing.
- Cluster buys are stocks where two or more different officers or directors bought within the chosen period.
- When several related entities (a fund and its general partner, for example) file the same trade, it is shown once. The market-wide lists start from the filings collected since this page went live and fill in over the first days; a stock you look up gets its last year of filings read directly.
For education only. Insider trades are public information and show what insiders did, not what a stock will do next. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. Filings can be amended, and we may miss or misread one; the SEC filing linked on each row is the authority. See the Terms and Disclaimer.