ConocoPhillips (COP) 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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ConocoPhillips (COP) insider buying and selling: 1 purchase, 15 sales
56 Form 4 Table I transactions filed with the SEC by ConocoPhillips insiders between 2025-11-10 and 2026-08-24 (15-month history): 1 open-market purchase and 15 sales, plus 40 transactions under other Form 4 codes, broken down one by one below. The largest open-market trade is a sale of $64.5M by Lance Ryan Michael on 2026-03-20.
ConocoPhillips insider buying and selling over the last 12 months
Between Oct 21, 2025 and Oct 20, 2026, ConocoPhillips insiders filed 1 purchase worth $500k and 15 sales worth $145.8M on the open market. The net balance is on the sell side: $145.3M more sold than bought.
The biggest buyer was Mcraven William H. (Director): $500k in 1 purchase, the only buyer. The biggest seller was Lance Ryan Michael (Chairman and CEO): $125.8M in 3 sales, out of 8 different sellers.
The largest trade of the period was a sale of $64.5M on Mar 20, 2026, by Lance Ryan Michael (Chairman and CEO). Form 4 on sec.gov (0001193125-26-119690).
None of the 15 sales carries the 10b5-1 plan flag on the Form 4 (sales scheduled months ahead).
The last three months show 0 purchases and 2 sales, against 0 and 1 in the three before. The latest purchase is from Nov 10, 2025; the latest sale from Aug 21, 2026.
Against its sector (Energy, 21 companies with an insider page on this site), over the same dates the median is 12 sales and 0 purchases on the open market. ConocoPhillips has more sales than 12 of the other 20, ranks 3 of 21 by net dollars sold, and 8 of the 21 have at least one purchase, ConocoPhillips 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.
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| Trade date | Filed | Insider | Role | Amount | Code | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-10 | 2025-11-10 | Mcraven William H. | Director | $500k | P — Open-market purchaseForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were purchased in multiple transactions at prices from $86.6345 to $86.6799, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares purchased at each separate price within the ranges provided therein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-20 | 2026-03-23 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $64.5M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF2 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $126.24 to $127.95, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2025-12-19 | 2025-12-23 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $46.3M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $15.0M | S — Open-market sale Indirect holding, through: By Lance Family Trust Form 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $131.54 to $133.84, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-06 | 2026-03-09 | Leach Timothy A | Director | $4.8M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $118.77 to $118.88, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-13 | 2026-03-16 | Lundquist Andrew D | Senior Vice President | $4.1M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-08-20 | 2026-08-21 | Rose Kelly Brunetti | SVP & General Counsel | $2.0M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $134.400 to $134.610, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-12 | 2026-03-16 | Olds Nicholas G | Executive Vice President | $1.7M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-03-11 | 2026-03-12 | Olds Nicholas G | Executive Vice President | $1.4M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $116.00 to $116.73, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-08-21 | 2026-08-24 | Lundquist Andrew D | Senior Vice President | $1.3M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-03-12 | 2026-03-13 | Haynes Welsh Kontessa S | VP & Controller | $1.2M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $120.05 to $120.185, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-09 | 2026-03-10 | Rose Kelly Brunetti | SVP & General Counsel | $1.0M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $118.00 to $118.15, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-24 | 2026-03-25 | Rose Kelly Brunetti | SVP & General Counsel | $1.0M | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF1 The price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices from $130.00 to $130.08, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range provided herein. | SEC |
| 2026-03-23 | 2026-03-23 | Olds Nicholas G | Executive Vice President | $889k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-03-13 | 2026-03-16 | Hrap Heather G. | Senior Vice President | $318k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-06-10 | 2026-06-10 | Mulligan Sharmila | Director | $235k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-12-19 | 2025-12-23 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $27.2M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-03-20 | 2026-03-23 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $25.2M | M — Option exerciseForm 4 footnoteF1 Amount reflects the transfer by the reporting person to the Lance Family Trust of 31,000 shares of common stock. | SEC |
| 2026-02-14 | 2026-02-18 | Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | $2.0M | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | SEC |
| 2026-03-13 | 2026-03-16 | Lundquist Andrew D | Senior Vice President | $1.7M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
The period balance: money in, money out
Across the Form 4 filings submitted between Nov 10, 2025 and Aug 24, 2026, ConocoPhillips open-market activity adds up to 1 purchase worth $500k and 15 sales worth $145.8M. The net balance is $145.3M 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 ConocoPhillips'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| M | Option exercise | 22 | $54.7M |
| F | Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | 16 | $5.0M |
| S | Open-market sale | 15 | $145.8M |
| G | Gift | 2 | $0 |
| P | Open-market purchase | 1 | $500k |
| Total | Everything filed in the period | 56 | $206.0M |
20 of the 56 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, 11 distinct people or entities have filed ConocoPhillips 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 (15 sales in all), the three biggest sellers account for $136.0M of the $145.8M: 93% of the money in three people.
| Filer | Role | Transactions | Bought (count) | Sold (count) | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lance Ryan Michael | Chairman and CEO | 9 | — | $125.8M (3) | 2026-03-31 |
| Lundquist Andrew D | Senior Vice President | 9 | — | $5.4M (2) | 2026-08-24 |
| Leach Timothy A | Director | 9 | — | $4.8M (1) | 2026-04-17 |
| Olds Nicholas G | Executive Vice President | 9 | — | $4.0M (3) | 2026-03-31 |
| Rose Kelly Brunetti | SVP & General Counsel | 7 | — | $4.0M (3) | 2026-08-21 |
| Haynes Welsh Kontessa S | VP & Controller | 3 | — | $1.2M (1) | 2026-03-13 |
| Mcraven William H. | Director | 2 | $500k (1) | — | 2026-04-17 |
| Hrap Heather G. | Senior Vice President | 3 | — | $318k (1) | 2026-03-16 |
Shown here are the 8 who moved the most money, out of 11. 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 Mar 2026: 0 purchases and 11 sales, worth $96.0M. 10 of the 15 months have none.
| Month | Purchases | Amount | Sales | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | $500k | 0 | $0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $46.3M |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | $0 | 11 | $96.0M |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $235k |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $3.3M |
| 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 15 sales in the table is flagged as scheduled (10b5-1 plan), the kind signed months ahead and executed automatically. ConocoPhillips'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 24, 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.