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CEO Stock Purchases

When a chief executive buys their own company's stock on the open market, they are doing the one thing no press release can fake: spending personal money at the price anyone else can pay. This page lists every such purchase, filtered to code P transactions only.

How to read this: Size matters less than context. A $50,000 purchase by a CEO earning $300,000 is a bigger statement than a $2M purchase by one earning $20M. Check the "Δ Own" column — it shows how much the buy changed their existing stake.

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Common questions

Is CEO buying a bullish signal?
Academic research has generally found that open-market purchases by senior executives modestly outperform the market, and that purchases are more informative than sales. That is a statistical tendency across thousands of trades, not a prediction about any single one. A CEO can be wrong about their own company.
Why are option exercises excluded?
An option exercise (code M) converts options granted years ago into shares. It appears as an acquisition on the filing but no purchase happened at the market price, and it is frequently paired with a same-day sale. Counting it as buying would be misleading.
How quickly do CEO purchases appear here?
Insiders must file Form 4 within two business days of the transaction. We poll the SEC every two minutes, so a filing usually appears here within minutes of becoming public.

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