This period closed before the release began publishing on a calendar. The figures are computed from the same tables, but this is a back-calculation rather than what we would have published at the time. Scheduled editions begin with 2026-09.
Open-market insider purchases
5
3 distinct insiders · 0 in July 2026
Open-market insider sales
195
65 distinct insiders · 77 in July 2026
Disclosed purchase value
$1.7M
5 of 5 purchase lines state a price; sales totalled $313M
5% holder filings
102
65 holders with no earlier filing in our records · 6 on Schedule 13D
Filings indexed
413
Across 43 of 45 covered issuers
Lines excluded from the two figures above
182
Grants, tax withholding, exercises and gifts — automatic events, not trades. Broken out in full below.
Open-market insider purchases, August 2026
Every transaction an officer, director or 10% owner reported under code P — a purchase they chose to make in the market — largest disclosed value first.
Open-market insider purchases, August 2026. Every transaction an officer, director or 10% owner reported under code P — a purchase they chose to make in the market — largest disclosed value first. 5 rows.
Date
Company
Insider
Role
Shares
Price
Value
2026-08-07
Parsons
Ball George L.
Director
20,000
47.97
$959K
2026-08-31
AST SpaceMobile
Cisneros Adriana
Director
8,768
57
$500K
2026-08-10
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Lyash Jeffrey J.
Director
209.38
711.62
Open-market insider sales, August 2026
Every transaction reported under code S — a sale in the market — largest disclosed value first.
Open-market insider sales, August 2026. Every transaction reported under code S — a sale in the market — largest disclosed value first. Showing the first 10 of 195 rows.
Date
Company
Insider
Role
Shares
Price
Value
2026-08-20
Palantir Technologies
Karp Alexander C.
Director, Officer (See Remarks)
306,544
174.846
$53.6M
2026-08-14
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
DEMARCO ERIC M
Director, Officer (President & CEO)
266,316
64.332
$17.1M
2026-08-20
Palantir Technologies
Karp Alexander C.
Director, Officer (See Remarks)
63,629
175.419
Insider activity by company
Open-market purchases and sales per company, with the compensation flow shown separately so it is visible and never mixed in.
Insider activity by company. Open-market purchases and sales per company, with the compensation flow shown separately so it is visible and never mixed in. Showing the first 10 of 30 rows.
Company
Ticker
Purchases
Sales
Net shares
Net value
Granted shares
Mercury Systems
MRCY
0
29
-446,186
$-41.4M
45,529
Palantir Technologies
PLTR
0
26
-549,685
$-95.4M
0
Rocket Lab
RKLB
0
20
-120,435
Every transaction class in the month
The full denominator: every Form 4 line we parsed, grouped by what the transaction code says happened, and marked according to whether the headline figures count it.
Every transaction class in the month. The full denominator: every Form 4 line we parsed, grouped by what the transaction code says happened, and marked according to whether the headline figures count it. 8 rows.
Class
Codes
Lines
Shares
Disclosed value
In headline
Open-market purchase
P
5
31,031.38
$1.7M
yes
Open-market sale
S
195
5,045,979
$313.3M
yes
Grant or award
A
35
1,273,455
—
no
Shares withheld for tax or exercise price
Schedule 13D and 13G filings, August 2026
Holders of 5% or more of a tracked company, as they reported themselves, with the change against that same holder’s previous filing on the same issuer where we hold one.
Schedule 13D and 13G filings, August 2026. Holders of 5% or more of a tracked company, as they reported themselves, with the change against that same holder’s previous filing on the same issuer where we hold one. Showing the first 10 of 102 rows.
Filed
Company
Holder
Form
% of class
Change (pts)
Shares
2026-08-13
Honeywell Aerospace
Honeywell International Inc.
SCHEDULE 13G
79.1
—
124,628,729
2026-08-13
SpaceX
Elon R. Musk
SCHEDULE 13G
48.4
—
6,418,547,515
2026-08-13
Honeywell Aerospace
Honeywell Holdings International Inc.
SCHEDULE 13G
Filing cadence by issuer
How much each covered issuer filed this month, against its own trailing monthly average, with late-filing notifications and periodic-report lag.
Filing cadence by issuer. How much each covered issuer filed this month, against its own trailing monthly average, with late-filing notifications and periodic-report lag. Showing the first 10 of 43 rows.
Company
Filings
8-K
Trailing 8-K/mo
Above average
First seen
Late notices
Mercury Systems
45
1
0.45
0.55
—
0
Rocket Lab
26
3
1.58
1.42
424B3; EFFECT; S-4; S-4/A
0
Iridium Communications
24
1
Filings behind these tables
Every filing indexed in the month, with the form, the period it covers, any 8-K item codes, and its accession number.
Filings behind these tables. Every filing indexed in the month, with the form, the period it covers, any 8-K item codes, and its accession number. Showing the first 10 of 413 rows.
Filed
Company
Form
Period covered
8-K items
Accession
2026-08-03
Comtech Telecommunications
8-K
2026-07-30
1.01,8.01,9.01
0000023197-26-000084
2026-08-03
L3Harris Technologies
3
2026-07-23
—
0000202058-26-000061
2026-08-03
L3Harris Technologies
4
2026-08-03
—
0000202058-26-000063
2026-08-03
Intuitive Machines
8-K
2026-08-03
1.01,7.01,8.01,9.01
0001193125-26-330778
Methodology
•Every figure is a count, a sum or a difference over the InsiderTransaction, InstitutionalPosition and IssuerFiling tables, each row of which was parsed from an SEC filing document and stores that filing’s accession number and URL. No estimate, model, projection or score is used anywhere in this release.
•A transaction is attributed to the month its transaction date falls in, in UTC — the date the trade happened, not the date it was reported. A line carrying no transaction date falls back to the filing date, and nothing else is inferred.
•THE HEADLINE PURCHASE AND SALE FIGURES COUNT ONLY CODES P AND S: an open-market or private purchase, and an open-market or private sale. A restricted-stock grant (code A) is not a purchase and shares withheld to pay tax on it (code F) are not a sale — both are automatic events on a compensation calendar. Every other class is published in its own table with its line count, share total and disclosed value, so the exclusion can be checked rather than trusted.
•Value is shares multiplied by the price the filer disclosed. A line with no price contributes nothing and is counted as undisclosed — never as a value of zero, which would drag every total down silently.
What this edition can and cannot see
Coverage limits travel with the numbers, here and in every export of them.
•This edition sees 382 Form 4 and Form 5 transaction lines, 102 Schedule 13D/G holder rows and 413 indexed filings for the month, across 45 issuers we hold an EDGAR filing index for.
•Of those transaction lines, 200 are open-market trades (codes P and S) and 182 are not. Only the open-market lines are counted in the purchase and sale figures. The transaction-class table publishes the rest in full so the exclusion is visible rather than asserted.
•Coverage is the tracked companies that carry a ticker and resolve to an SEC filer. Foreign-listed and privately held space companies file none of these forms, so their absence from every table here says nothing about them.
•A company that has since delisted keeps its filing history but drops out of the exchange ticker map, so it is covered only where we already hold its CIK. Its history stops at its last filing, which is a fact about the company rather than a gap in this release.
•Schedule 13D and 13G became structured XML submissions on 2024-12-18. Earlier filings are free-text cover pages: we index them but do not parse share counts out of them, and no figure on this page is drawn from one.
Sources and licences
The same credits are written into every CSV and JSON export of this data, so a downloaded file still names its sources.
UK Companies House — Company registration data from the UK Companies House register. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0
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$149K
2026-08-31
AST SpaceMobile
Cisneros Adriana
Director
1,384
57.79
$80K
2026-08-31
AST SpaceMobile
Cisneros Adriana
Director
670
58.87
$39K
Code P only. A grant, an option exercise and a dividend reinvestment are all acquisitions, and none of them is a purchase; they appear in the transaction-class table instead. A blank value means the filer disclosed no price, not a price of zero.
$11.2M
2026-08-20
Palantir Technologies
Karp Alexander C.
Director, Officer (See Remarks)
62,498
174.73
$10.9M
2026-08-17
Iridium Communications
FITZPATRICK THOMAS
Director
209,233
50.22
$10.5M
2026-08-24
Mercury Systems
Ballhaus William L
Director, Officer (Chairman, President & CEO)
105,471
89.473
$9.4M
2026-08-25
Mercury Systems
Ballhaus William L
Director, Officer (Chairman, President & CEO)
107,628
87.089
$9.4M
2026-08-26
Globalstar
Lynch James F
Director
110,000
81.776
$9.0M
2026-08-03
General Dynamics
NOVAKOVIC PHEBE N
Director, Officer (Chairman and CEO)
22,707
382.165
$8.7M
2026-08-04
York Space Systems
BlackRock Portfolio Management LLC
10% owner
468,476
15.58
$7.3M
Code S only. Shares withheld by the issuer to cover taxes (code F) and dispositions back to the issuer (code D) are excluded: they are not sales into the market. Many code-S lines are executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted months earlier; the Form 4 checkbox for that is not parsed here, so this table does not distinguish them.
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$-8.3M
0
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
KTOS
0
18
-354,013
$-22.6M
0
York Space Systems
YSS
0
11
-1,752,031
$-25.0M
0
Globalstar
GSAT
0
10
-397,572
$-32.8M
0
Moog Inc.
MOG.A
0
10
-3,000
$-1.2M
0
Northrop Grumman
NOC
0
10
-95
$-52K
35,910
Viasat
VSAT
0
9
-260,122
$-20.9M
7,817
Iridium Communications
IRDM
0
9
-383,919
$-19.3M
0
Net shares and net value are purchases minus sales, over codes P and S only. Granted shares and shares withheld for tax are reported beside them and are NOT part of either net figure. A net number is an arithmetic difference between two disclosures; it is not a rating of the company.
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F
32
198,144.465
$43.2M
no
Derivative exercise or conversion
C, M, X
91
5,361,916
$45.6M
no
Disposition to the issuer
D
7
512,005
$1.4M
no
Gift
G
15
1,178,040
—
no
Other, as coded on the filing
J
2
44,014
—
no
Codes and their meanings come from the SEC Form 4 general instructions. A code outside those instructions is stored as filed and classed "other" rather than guessed at.
46.6
—
28,630,074
2026-08-14
Firefly Aerospace
AeroEquity GP, LLC
SCHEDULE 13G/A
30.3
-6.6
50,805,752
2026-08-14
York Space Systems
AeroEquity GP, LLC
SCHEDULE 13G/A
23.96
0.68
32,915,588
2026-08-14
York Space Systems
David H. Rowe
SCHEDULE 13G/A
23.96
0.68
32,915,588
2026-08-14
York Space Systems
Michael Robert Greene
SCHEDULE 13G/A
23.96
0.68
32,915,588
2026-08-14
HawkEye 360
Insight Holdings Group, LLC
SCHEDULE 13G
14.5
—
14,163,523
2026-08-28
General Dynamics
Longview Asset Management, LLC
SCHEDULE 13D/A
10
—
27,096,788
2026-08-04
Iridium Communications
Baralonco Limited
SCHEDULE 13D/A
9.44
-0.09
10,000,000
Percent of class is the figure the filer stated; we do not recompute it against a share count of our own. A blank change means we hold no earlier filing by that holder on that issuer, which is not the same as a new position. Schedule 13D is the long form filed by holders who do not certify passive intent and 13G is the short form for passive holders and qualified institutions — that describes the FORM, not what the holder will do. Structured filings only, from 2024-12-18.
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0.92
0.08
DEFM14A
0
Viasat
21
1
0.83
0.17
—
0
Globalstar
20
1
0.55
0.45
DEFM14C
0
Spire Global
19
2
1.25
0.75
—
0
General Dynamics
18
2
0.58
1.42
424B5; SCHEDULE 13D/A
0
Booz Allen Hamilton
17
2
1
1
—
0
Honeywell Aerospace
17
1
2.08
-1.08
—
0
AST SpaceMobile
14
1
2
-1
—
0
The trailing average is computed over the months we actually hold filings for that company, printed beside it as months of prior history — dividing a short history by twelve would manufacture a burst that is really coverage. "First seen" means the first filing of that form type in OUR records, which for a company we began indexing recently is a statement about us. A late-filing notice is Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, which the issuer files itself.
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2026-08-03
Palantir Technologies
8-K
2026-08-03
2.02,7.01,9.01
0001321655-26-000039
2026-08-03
BWX Technologies
8-K
2026-06-30
2.02,9.01
0001486957-26-000041
2026-08-03
BWX Technologies
10-Q
2026-06-30
—
0001486957-26-000042
2026-08-03
L3Harris Technologies
4
2026-08-03
—
0001539147-26-000009
2026-08-03
L3Harris Technologies
4
2026-08-03
—
0001579263-26-000008
2026-08-03
CACI International
4
2026-07-30
—
0001628280-26-051703
Item codes are reproduced exactly as EDGAR records them and are not translated into descriptions here. Every row links to the filing on sec.gov.
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•A joint Form 4 reports one set of shares held by several related reporting persons. The line is attributed to the first person named and the others are listed beside it; attributing it to each would multiply the block by the number of filers.
•Form 3 — an insider’s initial statement of holdings — is not imported. It reports a standing position rather than a transaction, and counting it as one would invent a trade on the day every director joined a board.
•Schedule 13D and 13G figures come only from structured XML submissions, which the SEC mandated from 2024-12-18. Earlier filings are free-text cover pages: they are indexed and never scraped for share counts. Percent of class is the figure the filer stated and is not recomputed by us.
•Filing-cadence comparisons use each company’s own trailing monthly average over the months we actually hold filings for, and the number of those months is printed beside the average. A company we began indexing recently would otherwise show a burst that is really coverage.
•Coverage is the tracked companies carrying a ticker that resolves to an SEC filer through EDGAR’s official ticker-to-CIK map. Foreign-listed and privately held space companies file none of these forms, so their absence says nothing about them.
•This release reports what was filed. It contains no recommendation, rating, target or forecast, it does not consider any reader’s circumstances, and it is not investment advice.
•Our parsed SEC history begins 2025-01-01. That is a backfill boundary, not a claim about what happened before it.
•Form 4s are filed within two business days of a transaction and Form 5s can report a transaction months later, so a month’s figures can grow after the month ends. Each edition states the date it was computed, and a recomputation that moves is a correction rather than a revision of history.
•Amendments are counted as filed. A 4/A restating an earlier line appears as its own row rather than silently overwriting the original, because both were filed and both are part of the record.
•Form 3 (an insider’s initial statement of holdings) is not imported at all. It reports a standing position rather than a transaction, and counting it as one would invent a trade on the day every director joined a board.
•The Form 4 Rule 10b5-1 checkbox is not parsed, so this release cannot tell you whether a sale was executed under a pre-arranged plan adopted months earlier. That distinction matters and we do not have it.
•Nothing here is adjusted for share splits, and share counts are as reported on each filing.
•Every figure on this page is a count, a sum or a difference over our own rows. Nothing is model-generated, estimated, projected or scored, and no figure is a recommendation.