Insider Trading Statistics

How much stock are US corporate insiders actually buying and selling? Monthly totals from SEC Form 4 filings, with pre-planned 10b5-1 selling separated from discretionary trades.

The headline ratio

Across every filing we track, insiders have bought $18.2B of stock in open-market purchases and sold $175.0B — about $9.6 sold for every $1 bought. A lopsided sell ratio is structural, not a market call: insiders receive stock as compensation and sell for liquidity, taxes, and diversification, while buying their own stock with cash is the rarer, more deliberate act. That is why purchases carry more signal per dollar than sales.

Insider buying and selling by month

Events are whole filings (a multi-tranche 10b5-1 ladder counts once), bucketed by the month the Form 4 hit EDGAR. The last column shows how much of the selling was pre-planned under Rule 10b5-1.

August 20261,148$1.7B4,224$20.0B28%
July 2026600$830.8M2,672$8.8B50%
June 20261,112$1.4B4,193$18.6B29%
May 2026589$2.2B2,216$9.9B20%
April 2026643$1.3B2,547$10.5B33%
March 20261,354$1.8B4,335$16.5B25%
February 2026806$1.1B3,935$13.1B23%
January 2026573$1.1B2,340$5.8B50%
December 20251,072$2.1B3,571$14.7B27%
November 20251,354$1.1B3,228$15.3B22%
October 2025547$683.1M2,174$12.1B29%
September 2025747$1.7B3,115$17.7B29%
August 2025956$964.2M2,823$12.0B30%

Largest insider buys, last 90 days

Open-market purchases (transaction code P), one row per filing.

PBLSParabilis Medicines, Inc.RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P.$423.8MJune 11, 2026
JEFJefferies Financial Group Inc.SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.$318.7MJuly 15, 2026
MAIRMadison Air Solutions CorpBERTARELLI ERNESTO$219.0MAugust 25, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$127.0MAugust 25, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$108.1MAugust 11, 2026
SCTHSecuretech Innovations, Inc.SITRA J SCOTT$100.0MAugust 21, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$88.2MAugust 21, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$83.4MAugust 19, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$78.3MAugust 13, 2026
RSGREPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.CASCADE INVESTMENT, L.L.C.$76.6MAugust 17, 2026

Largest insider sells, last 90 days

Sales and sales to the issuer (codes S and D). Pre-planned 10b5-1 sales are flagged — they are scheduled liquidity, not a fresh decision.

BTSGBrightSpring Health Services, Inc.KKR Phoenix Aggregator L.P.$857.5MJune 5, 2026
BTSGBrightSpring Health Services, Inc.KKR Group Partnership L.P.$857.5MJune 5, 2026
MASIMASIMO CORPPolitan Capital Management LP$826.4MJune 10, 2026
JMKEJersey Mike's Subs Inc.Blackstone Holdings II L.P.$648.8MJuly 31, 2026
JMKEJersey Mike's Subs Inc.Submarine Buyer LLC$648.8MJuly 31, 2026
ALHAlliance Laundry Holdings Inc.BDT CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC$589.6MAugust 20, 2026
WMTWalmart Inc.Walton Family Holdings Trust$535.8MJune 16, 2026
PRMBPrimo Brands CorpLee Tony W$497.4MAugust 7, 2026
PRMBPrimo Brands CorpORCP III DE TopCo GP, LLC$497.4MAugust 7, 2026
CRBDCorebridge Financial, Inc.Argon Holdco LLC$491.1MAugust 10, 2026

Methodology

Source data is SEC EDGAR Form 4 — the filing every US corporate insider (director, officer, or 10%+ owner) must submit within two business days of trading their company's stock. alphai parses each filing about six minutes after it reaches EDGAR and groups its non-derivative transactions into economic events: one filing's tranches with the same transaction code and ownership form count as one event, so a 25-tranche ladder sale is one sale, not 25.

Hygiene applied to every number on this page: event groups summing over $1B are excluded (at that size a Form 4 is almost always an M&A or tender disposition, an IPO reorganization, or a filer error, not an open-market trade), and values are taken as filed — a small number of foreign issuers file in their listing currency, which this page does not normalize. Monthly buckets use the EDGAR receipt date, not the self-reported trade date, which occasionally carries typos.

This is a noise-filtered readout of public filings, not investment advice. Live event-level data is on the Insider Trading Tracker and per-company pages; weekly editorial snapshots are in Research; the full feed is available programmatically via the API (free tier, no card).

Cite this page

These statistics are free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Suggested citation:

Insider trading statistics: AlphaAI (alphai.io), computed from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings. https://alphai.io/insider-trading-statistics

The underlying event-level data is published as a CSV dataset (also CC BY 4.0): SEC Form 4 Insider Trading on Hugging Face.