• Company officers, directors, and owners of at least 10% of a company must disclose transactions of their company's stock in a Form4 with in two business days. This article looks at the transaction individually and disposition of the transaction: whether it was acquired or disposed (of).

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  • Some filings are due periodically. Others are filed following an event. We examine the frequency of SEC filings over the last four years. The plots above show the number of filings by date for the last four years. For clarity, the x-axis is the Julian date (i.e., February 1 is day 32). Similarly, the days with no filings (most weekends and holidays) are not plotted. The days when the plot appears to touch the origin are weekends/holidays with a few (not zero) filings. The peak each year is in the middle of February. There is an overall cycle that is shown year to year.

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