Big Money Moves
What are billionaires, executives and major funds actually doing?
Significant purchases and sales disclosed by executives, institutional portfolio filings, activist stakes and major acquisitions — always with the transaction date and the filing date.
Charles Schwab's trust sold $18.1M of Schwab stock in two days
A Form 4 filed on Oct 29, 2026 shows 203,150 shares sold on Oct 28 and 29. The size is modest next to the stake. The reason is not in the filing.
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Accenture's CEO put $3.0M of her own money into the stock, lifting her direct stake by a third
A Form 4 filed Oct 28, 2026 shows Julie Sweet bought 12,200 shares on the open market, outside any reported trading plan. Here is what the filing does and doesn't tell you.
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A Stride director bought $12.2 million of stock on the open market
A Form 4 filed Oct 27, 2026 shows three purchases of Stride shares worth about $12.2 million. The buyer is a director who also runs the fund named in the filing.
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Applied Digital's CEO and president bought .66M of their own stock, their first buy since 2023
Two executives made open-market purchases on Oct 16, 2026, after a quarter with a 21 million loss to common holders. What a Form 4 buy does and doesn't tell you.
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A 10% owner bought $24.2 million of Group 1 Automotive stock
A Form 4 filed Oct 26, 2026 shows 100,000 GPI shares bought over three trading days, outside any 10b5-1 plan. It shows what was done, not why.
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A VC fund sold $10.3M of Alamar stock at 76% above the IPO price
A Form 4 filed Oct 23 shows Qiming-affiliated funds selling 342,626 Alamar shares on Oct 21–22, about six months after the IPO. The filing says what was sold, not why.
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Lockheed's backlog jumped 27% in one quarter to a record $292 billion
Most of the leap traces to one multi-year missile-interceptor award worth about $52.5 billion. Lockheed also skipped share buybacks for the first nine months of 2026.
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Starboard reportedly builds a Solstice stake after its $14.5B deal collapsed
The activist fund is said to hold several hundred million dollars of Honeywell's spin-off, weeks after Solstice walked away from its biggest acquisition. The details come from press reports, not a filing.
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A 10% owner of Dole just spent $8.6 million buying more of its own stock
Pale Fire Capital, a Prague investor, bought 648,356 Dole shares in three days, according to a Form 4 filed Oct 22, 2026. The filing says none of it was a pre-arranged plan trade.
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A fund's own chairman keeps buying its shares, and just spent $3.3 million
A Form 4 filed Oct 21, 2026 shows 271,555 BPRE shares bought on the open market over three days, following similar buys in September.
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Insider Buy of the Week: a Sonic Automotive 10% owner just added $752,044
Paul Rusnak, listed as a 10% owner of Sonic Automotive, bought 12,555 more shares on Oct. 14, a week after an earlier purchase. Here is what the filings show, and what a buy like this can and can't tell you.
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Micron's Scott DeBoer sold about $25.7M of stock under a pre-set plan
A Form 4 filed Oct. 20 shows the chief technology and products officer sold about 28,545 shares on Oct. 16, around $900 each, under a plan adopted in July.
Read the storyTwo Cloudflare insiders sold $5.3 million of stock in one day
The CFO and a director sold on Oct. 19, but both sales ran under trading plans adopted months earlier, in November 2025 and February 2026.
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A 10% owner of Talos Energy has sold about $206 million of stock in nine days
Three Form 4 filings show the Slim family's holding company cutting its Talos stake by about 12 million shares in October, none of it flagged as a pre-set 10b5-1 plan.
Read the storyApplied Digital's president buys $5.7 million of APLD stock on the open market
A Form 4 filed Oct. 19 shows Jason Gechen Zhang bought 300,000 shares at about $18.86 on Oct. 16, outside any pre-arranged trading plan.
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