AMETEK (AME) insider buying and selling
Every Table I transaction reported by directors and officers of S&P 500 companies on SEC Form 4 filings (2 business days to file): each row labeled with its official transaction code, nothing filtered out beforehand.
Open-market purchases (code P) are the rare signal, in green; sales (code S) are common and often pre-scheduled (10b5-1). Table II (derivatives) is not included: its prices are exercise prices, not market values. Guide: insider buying.
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AMETEK, Inc. (AME) insider buying and selling: 1 purchase, 9 sales
104 Form 4 Table I transactions filed with the SEC by AMETEK, Inc. insiders between 2025-08-26 and 2026-08-12 (15-month history): 1 open-market purchase and 9 sales, plus 94 transactions under other Form 4 codes, broken down one by one below. The largest open-market trade is a sale of $17.3M by Zapico David A on 2025-11-25.
AMETEK insider buying and selling over the last 12 months
Between Oct 21, 2025 and Oct 20, 2026, AMETEK insiders filed 1 purchase worth $1.0M and 8 sales worth $34.8M on the open market. The net balance is on the sell side: $33.8M more sold than bought.
The biggest buyer was Stanage Nick L (Director): $1.0M in 1 purchase, the only buyer. The biggest seller was Zapico David A (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $23.0M in 2 sales, out of 7 different sellers.
The largest trade of the period was a sale of $17.3M on Nov 25, 2025, by Zapico David A (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER). Form 4 on sec.gov (0001037868-25-000088).
None of the 8 sales carries the 10b5-1 plan flag on the Form 4 (sales scheduled months ahead).
The last three months show 1 purchase and 1 sale, against 0 and 0 in the three before. The latest purchase is from Aug 11, 2026; the latest sale from Aug 7, 2026.
Against its sector (Industrials, 75 companies with an insider page on this site), over the same dates the median is 8 sales and 0 purchases on the open market. AMETEK has more sales than 35 of the other 74, ranks 23 of 75 by net dollars sold, and 28 of the 75 have at least one purchase, AMETEK included.
The 20 most important trades
The only open-market purchase first, then the rest, each type from largest to smallest. The full history is in the tool above, already searched.
See all 104 AME trades in the full history →
| Trade date | Filed | Insider | Role | Amount | Code | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 2026-08-12 | Stanage Nick L | Director | $1.0M | P — Open-market purchase | SEC |
| 2025-11-25 | 2025-11-26 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $17.3M | S — Open-market sale3 Form 4 footnotesF1 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $194.52 to 195.28. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. F2 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $195.29 to $196.27. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. F3 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $196.28 to $197.27. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. | SEC |
| 2025-12-12 | 2025-12-12 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $5.7M | S — Open-market sale Indirect holding, through: By Trust 2 Form 4 footnotesF2 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $201.12 to $202.00. Upon the request by the SEC staff, the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. F3 The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities held by the trust, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that the reporting person is the beneficial owner of securities for purposes of Section 16 or any other purpose. | SEC |
| 2025-10-31 | 2025-11-03 | Oscher Ronald J | CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER | $5.3M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $200.00 to $200.19. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. | SEC |
| 2025-12-15 | 2025-12-16 | Marecic Thomas C | PRES. - ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS | $2.9M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $202.00 to $202.44. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. | SEC |
| 2026-08-07 | 2026-08-10 | Hermance David F. | PRESIDENT - ELECTROMECHANICAL | $1.7M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-09-11 | 2025-09-12 | Hardin John Wesley | PRES. - ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS | $1.5M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $188.00 to $188.24. Upon request by the SEC staff, the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. | SEC |
| 2025-12-22 | 2025-12-23 | Montgomery Thomas M | SR. VP. - COMPTROLLER | $1.3M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The shares were sold at prices ranging from $204.57 to $205.49. Upon request by the SEC staff the issuer or any security holder of the issuer, the reporting person will provide information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. | SEC |
| 2025-11-12 | 2025-11-13 | Speranza Emanuela | CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER | $540k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-03-24 | 2026-03-25 | Amato Thomas A | Director | $115k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-08-22 | 2025-08-26 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $6.7M | D — Sale back to the issuer | SEC |
| 2025-11-25 | 2025-11-26 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $5.6M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-02-17 | 2026-02-19 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $3.0M | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Represents withholding of shares to pay taxes. | SEC |
| 2026-03-18 | 2026-03-19 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $2.5M | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Constitutes restricted stock issued under the AMETEK, Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2025-10-31 | 2025-11-03 | Oscher Ronald J | CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER | $1.9M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2025-12-15 | 2025-12-16 | Marecic Thomas C | PRES. - ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS | $907k | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-03-18 | 2026-03-19 | Puri Dalip | Executive VP- CFO | $804k | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Constitutes restricted stock issued under the AMETEK, Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-07 | 2026-08-10 | Hermance David F. | PRESIDENT - ELECTROMECHANICAL | $565k | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2025-12-22 | 2025-12-23 | Montgomery Thomas M | SR. VP. - COMPTROLLER | $546k | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-03-22 | 2026-03-23 | Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $438k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF1 Represents withholding of shares to pay taxes. | SEC |
The period balance: money in, money out
Across the Form 4 filings submitted between Aug 26, 2025 and Aug 12, 2026, AMETEK, Inc. open-market activity adds up to 1 purchase worth $1.0M and 9 sales worth $36.3M. The net balance is $35.3M on the sell side.
Only codes P and S count, where an insider puts in or takes out their own money. A selling balance like AMETEK, Inc.'s is the norm in the S&P 500, where much of the pay comes as stock. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell: it is what was filed.
Every transaction, code by code
| Code | What it means | Trades | Reported amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| F | Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | 36 | $6.2M |
| A | Grant or award | 25 | $6.4M |
| J | Other transaction (explained in the filing) | 21 | $0 |
| S | Open-market sale | 9 | $36.3M |
| M | Option exercise | 8 | $9.5M |
| G | Gift | 3 | $0 |
| D | Sale back to the issuer | 1 | $6.7M |
| P | Open-market purchase | 1 | $1.0M |
| Total | Everything filed in the period | 104 | $66.1M |
36 of the 104 rows carry no usable amount on the Form 4: they count as trades and add $0. The code labels come from the SEC index.
Who has traded
Over the 15 months of history, 18 distinct people or entities have filed AMETEK, Inc. transactions: 1 bought on the open market and 8 sold. Counted by CIK, the fixed number the SEC gives each filer, and not by name, which each filer types their own way.
Of the 8 who sold on the open market (9 sales in all), the three biggest sellers account for $31.2M of the $36.3M: 86% of the money in three people.
| Filer | Role | Transactions | Bought (count) | Sold (count) | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zapico David A | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | 13 | — | $23.0M (2) | 2026-03-23 |
| Oscher Ronald J | CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER | 12 | — | $5.3M (1) | 2026-05-28 |
| Marecic Thomas C | PRES. - ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS | 10 | — | $2.9M (1) | 2026-03-23 |
| Hermance David F. | PRESIDENT - ELECTROMECHANICAL | 10 | — | $1.7M (1) | 2026-08-10 |
| Hardin John Wesley | PRES. - ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS | 11 | — | $1.5M (1) | 2026-03-23 |
| Montgomery Thomas M | SR. VP. - COMPTROLLER | 3 | — | $1.3M (1) | 2025-12-29 |
| Stanage Nick L | Director | 2 | $1.0M (1) | — | 2026-08-12 |
| Speranza Emanuela | CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER | 9 | — | $540k (1) | 2026-03-23 |
Shown here are the 8 who moved the most money, out of 18. The rest are in the full history, one link above. The name links to all their trades, in any company. "Transactions" counts any code; the money, open market only. Role: from their latest filing.
Month by month
By the month the trade was executed, not the month it was filed; months with no trades show zero. The busiest month was Dec 2025: 0 purchases and 3 sales, worth $9.9M. 9 of the 15 months have none.
| Month | Purchases | Amount | Sales | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.5M |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $5.3M |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $17.8M |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | $0 | 3 | $9.9M |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $115k |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Aug 2026 | 1 | $1.0M | 1 | $1.7M |
| Sep 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Oct 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
The last month may be partial: a Form 4 is filed up to two business days later. The table does not say whether the pattern is good or bad; it says when it happened.
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How to read this data
None of the 9 sales in the table is flagged as scheduled (10b5-1 plan), the kind signed months ahead and executed automatically. AMETEK's single open-market purchase (code P) is the rare signal: insiders are already paid in stock, so buying more means putting in their own money. The latest filing is from Aug 12, 2026, and a Form 4 arrives up to two business days after the trade.
10 of the 20 rows in the table carry footnotes from the Form 4 itself, folded into the code column and copied verbatim; a row with no footnote means the filing has none.
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What is behind these trades
The concepts on this page, explained from scratch in the Academy. Free, no account.
- What the efficiency hypothesis says and what it does NOT sayIf an insider's purchase is public and anyone can read it, is there any information left in it? That is the exact question that brings people here.
- Who really moves the market: the types of investorWho sits on the other side of each order, and where a company's own insiders fit among them.
- Supply, demand and price: why it rises and falls constantlyHow a piece of news ends up inside the price, and why the reaction to a filed sale is rarely the one you would expect.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4. This is a list of public facts, not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.