Form 4 filings containing a sale: with an exercise on the same document, or without

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.

Rows × columns

12 × 4

Period covered

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

Computed

2026-08-08

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-08, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    toString(toStartOfMonth(filed_on))                                    AS month,
    countIf(has_m > 0 AND has_s > 0)                                      AS exercise_and_sale_count,
    countIf(has_m = 0 AND has_s > 0)                                      AS sale_only_count,
    round(100 * countIf(has_m > 0 AND has_s > 0) / countIf(has_s > 0), 1) AS paired_share_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        accession_number,
        min(filing_date)            AS filed_on,
        max(transaction_code = 'M') AS has_m,
        max(transaction_code = 'S') AS has_s
    FROM global_markets.stocks_form4
    WHERE filing_date >= toDate('2025-08-01')
      AND filing_date <  toDate('2026-08-01')
      AND form_type = '4'
    GROUP BY accession_number
)
GROUP BY month
HAVING countIf(has_s > 0) > 0
ORDER BY month