Recent Form 144 Filings

What a Form 144 tells you that a Form 4 cannot

Form 144 is a notice of proposed sale. An insider holding restricted or control stock files it with the SEC to declare an intention to sell, and the sale generally follows within the next 90 days. The completed trade is then reported separately on a Form 4, typically about two business days after it executes. That ordering is the whole point of watching this feed: the Form 144 is the earlier of the two signals, and it is the only one that exists before any shares change hands.

Each row shows the company, the filer and their relationship to it, the number of shares proposed, the aggregate market value as stated on the notice, and the approximate sale date. The badge is the field worth reading first. 10b5-1 means the notice was filed under a pre-scheduled trading plan — the insider committed to the sale in advance, often months earlier, so it carries far less information than it appears to. Discretionary means it was not, and that is the subset most analytical workloads actually care about.

Two honest caveats. A Form 144 states an intention: the insider is not obliged to sell, and some notices are never followed by a trade at all, so treating one as a completed sale will overstate insider selling. And the aggregate market value is the filer's own estimate at the time of filing, not an executed price. For what actually happened, read the matching Form 4 filing once it lands.

The full background is in the SEC Form 144 guide. To pull these notices programmatically, the Form4API endpoint /v1/form144 returns the same rows as JSON with ticker, date-range and exclude_10b5 filters — see the API reference.