McCormick (MKC) 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.
| Date | Ticker | Insider | Role | Shares | Price | Amount | % of stake | Type / filing |
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McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) insider buying and selling: 3 purchases, 9 sales
124 Form 4 Table I transactions filed with the SEC by McCormick & Company, Incorporated insiders between 2025-10-10 and 2026-10-05 (15-month history): 3 open-market purchases and 9 sales, plus 112 transactions under other Form 4 codes, broken down one by one below. The largest open-market trade is a sale of $10.8M by Kurzius Lawrence Erik on 2026-08-10.
McCormick insider buying and selling over the last 12 months
Between Oct 21, 2025 and Oct 20, 2026, McCormick insiders filed 3 purchases worth $206k and 8 sales worth $25.0M on the open market. The net balance is on the sell side: $24.8M more sold than bought.
The biggest buyer was Hattersley Gavin (Director): $151k in 2 purchases, out of 2 different buyers. The biggest seller was Kurzius Lawrence Erik (10% Owner): $20.3M in 4 sales, out of 4 different sellers.
The largest trade of the period was a sale of $10.8M on Aug 10, 2026, by Kurzius Lawrence Erik (10% Owner). Form 4 on sec.gov (0000063754-26-000294).
None of the 8 sales carries the 10b5-1 plan flag on the Form 4 (sales scheduled months ahead).
The last three months show 2 purchases and 1 sale, against 0 and 0 in the three before. The latest purchase is from Oct 2, 2026; the latest sale from Aug 10, 2026.
Against its sector (Consumer Defensive, 33 companies with an insider page on this site), over the same dates the median is 5 sales and 1 purchase on the open market. McCormick has more sales than 19 of the other 32, ranks 11 of 33 by net dollars sold, and 17 of the 33 have at least one purchase, McCormick included.
The 20 most important trades
The 3 open-market purchases first, then the rest, each type from largest to smallest. The full history is in the tool above, already searched.
See all 124 MKC trades in the full history →
| Trade date | Filed | Insider | Role | Amount | Code | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-13 | Hattersley Gavin | Director | $106k | P — Open-market purchase | SEC |
| 2026-07-23 | 2026-07-27 | Conway Michael Aaron | Director | $55k | P — Open-market purchase | SEC |
| 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-05 | Hattersley Gavin | Director | $45k | P — Open-market purchase | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $10.8M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-11-12 | 2025-11-13 | Foley Brendan M | Chairman, President & CEO | $3.7M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-02-12 | 2026-02-13 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $3.6M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-01-13 | 2026-01-14 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $3.4M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-10-08 | 2025-10-10 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $3.3M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2025-11-11 | 2025-11-12 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $2.5M | S — Open-market sale Indirect holding, through: By 2023 GRAT G; By 2023 GRAT H; By 2024 GRAT I; By 2024 GRAT J; BY 2025 GRAT K | SEC |
| 2026-02-09 | 2026-02-10 | Mangan Michael D | Director | $340k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-02-05 | 2026-02-09 | Tapiero Jacques | Director | $335k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-04 | Tapiero Jacques | Director | $319k | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $10.1M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2025-11-12 | 2025-11-13 | Foley Brendan M | Chairman, President & CEO | $2.9M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-01-13 | 2026-01-14 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $2.5M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2025-10-08 | 2025-10-10 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $2.5M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-02-12 | 2026-02-13 | Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | $2.5M | M — Option exercise | SEC |
| 2026-02-15 | 2026-02-18 | Foley Brendan M | Chairman, President & CEO | $1.3M | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF1 Shares withheld for taxes on the shares previously reported on 1/21/2026 for McCormick's Long-Term Incentive Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-02-15 | 2026-02-18 | Schwartz Jeffery D | Vice President, Gen Counsel | $587k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF1 Shares withheld for taxes on the shares previously reported on 1/21/2026 for McCormick's Long-Term Incentive Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-05 | Schwartz Jeffery D | Vice President, Gen Counsel | $550k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | SEC |
The period balance: money in, money out
Across the Form 4 filings submitted between Oct 10, 2025 and Oct 5, 2026, McCormick & Company, Incorporated open-market activity adds up to 3 purchases worth $206k and 9 sales worth $28.3M. The net balance is $28.1M 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 McCormick & Company, Incorporated'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | Other transaction (explained in the filing) | 55 | $150k |
| M | Option exercise | 33 | $21.9M |
| F | Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | 13 | $3.6M |
| A | Grant or award | 11 | $75k |
| S | Open-market sale | 9 | $28.3M |
| P | Open-market purchase | 3 | $206k |
| Total | Everything filed in the period | 124 | $54.3M |
29 of the 124 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, 21 distinct people or entities have filed McCormick & Company, Incorporated transactions: 2 bought on the open market and 4 sold. Counted by CIK, the fixed number the SEC gives each filer, and not by name, which each filer types their own way.
| Filer | Role | Transactions | Bought (count) | Sold (count) | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurzius Lawrence Erik | 10% Owner | 10 | — | $23.6M (5) | 2026-08-12 |
| Foley Brendan M | Chairman, President & CEO | 23 | — | $3.7M (1) | 2026-08-25 |
| Tapiero Jacques | Director | 8 | — | $655k (2) | 2026-02-18 |
| Mangan Michael D | Director | 5 | — | $340k (1) | 2026-02-18 |
| Hattersley Gavin | Director | 3 | $151k (2) | — | 2026-10-05 |
| Conway Michael Aaron | Director | 2 | $55k (1) | — | 2026-07-27 |
| Foust Andrew | Chief Integration Officer | 17 | — | — | 2026-09-09 |
| Sanchez Ana | President EMEA | 9 | — | — | 2026-03-17 |
Shown here are the 8 who moved the most money, out of 21. 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 Feb 2026: 0 purchases and 4 sales, worth $4.6M. 7 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 | 1 | $3.3M |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $6.3M |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $3.4M |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0 | 4 | $4.6M |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Apr 2026 | 1 | $106k | 0 | $0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | $55k | 0 | $0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10.8M |
| Sep 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Oct 2026 | 1 | $45k | 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. McCormick's 3 open-market purchases (code P) are the rare signal: insiders are already paid in stock, so buying more means putting in their own money. The latest filing is from Oct 5, 2026, and a Form 4 arrives up to two business days after the trade.
2 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.