Insider Form 4 transactions reach 125 in the week of Oct. 5, against a 34 median
SEC EDGAR logged 125 insider Form 4 transaction entries in the week of Oct. 5, 2026, compared with a median of 34 a week across the 17 earlier weeks used as the baseline.
A Form 4 is the filing that shows when an executive, director or large shareholder acquires or disposes of company stock, giving outside readers a public record of what insiders did with their own shares.
SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings recorded 125 insider transaction entries in the week of Oct. 5, 2026, against a median of 34 entries a week over the 17 earlier weeks used as the baseline. A Form 4 is the ownership report a company insider files with the SEC after a change in holdings; each entry in the count is one transaction line, marked with a code for what happened to the shares.
The largest entries came from Paramount Skydance, PSKY. Gerald J. Cardinale reported acquiring 175,000,000 shares and, in a second entry, 158,333,333 shares of Class B common stock on Oct. 6, both marked code A (acquired). Laurene Powell Jobs reported acquiring 20,833,333 shares of PSKY Class B Common Stock the same date, also code A. Two of those entries come from a single filing by the same insider.
At Warner Bros. Discovery, WBD, David Zaslav, listed as Chief Executive Officer & Pres, reported disposing of 3,737,162 shares of Series A Common Stock, marked code D (disposed), in a filing that puts the value of the transaction at $115,914,432.61.
Weekly counts over the 16 weeks from the week of June 22 through the week of Sept. 28 ranged from 2 to 110 entries, so no other week in that span reached the current total. Measured against 24 earlier complete weeks, the week of Oct. 5 sits at the 100th percentile, with a median of 28.5 entries and a typical spread of 23 entries a week; it is 4.2 typical spreads above that median, according to the same SEC EDGAR Form 4 data.
Form 4 codes are shorthand: A marks shares acquired, D marks shares disposed of, and other codes cover sales, purchases and shares withheld for taxes. The count covers filings seen within a 7-day lag and is complete through Oct. 16, 2026.
Room for disagreement
One week can be lifted by a handful of large entries at a single issuer: two of the four cited entries come from one filing, and the weekly figure counts transaction lines rather than companies or dollars. A count of 125 lines says nothing about the size or direction of insiders' overall holdings.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's pn_records table (808 rows read Oct 25, 6:31 a.m. HST): Insider Form 4 transactions per week; the week of 2026-10-05 holds 125 against a median of 34 over 17 earlier complete weeks (pn_records; complete through 2026-10-16). Prose by Simon Hale (pn100-pnj-v9, model @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed.