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Share of Form 4 lines booked as indirect ownership, by transaction code

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-08, from How to Read a Form 4 Insider Trading Filing.

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Share of Form 4 lines booked as indirect ownership, by transaction code — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
codeline_countindirect_pct
P: purchase8265850.4
S: sale36103544.7
A: grant3079724.7
M: exercise2630955.9
F: tax withholding1487381.2
G: gift2107845.5
Rows × columns
6 × 3
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Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Column definitions for Share of Form 4 lines booked as indirect ownership, by transaction code, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
code text 6 distinct values (A: grant, F: tax withholding, G: gift…)
line_count number 21,078 to 361,035 count
indirect_pct number 1.2 to 50.4 percent

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    multiIf(
        transaction_code = 'P', 'P: purchase',
        transaction_code = 'S', 'S: sale',
        transaction_code = 'A', 'A: grant',
        transaction_code = 'M', 'M: exercise',
        transaction_code = 'F', 'F: tax withholding',
        'G: gift')                                                             AS code,
    count()                                                                    AS line_count,
    round(100 * countIf(upper(direct_or_indirect) LIKE 'I%') / count(), 1)     AS indirect_pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_form4
WHERE filing_date >= toDate('2025-08-01')
  AND filing_date <  toDate('2026-08-01')
  AND form_type = '4'
  AND transaction_code IN ('P', 'S', 'A', 'M', 'F', 'G')
  AND (upper(direct_or_indirect) LIKE 'D%' OR upper(direct_or_indirect) LIKE 'I%')
GROUP BY code
ORDER BY multiIf(
    code LIKE 'P%', 1,
    code LIKE 'S%', 2,
    code LIKE 'A%', 3,
    code LIKE 'M%', 4,
    code LIKE 'F%', 5,
    6)

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