What the executives and directors of Northrop Grumman actually did with their own shares, decoded from three years of SEC Form 4 filings.
The tape: three years of insider trades
Every marker sits at the exact price reported on the Form 4. The line is the monthly median of all prices insiders reported, so the chart needs no market feed; the gray strip is routine flow (vestings, tax withholding, gifts) that headlines love to miscount as selling.
Where the shares went, last 12 months
Every Form 4 movement decomposed: what flowed in (grants, vested equity, purchases) and what flowed out (tax withholding, plan sales, discretionary sales, gifts). Counted in shares, because grants carry no price.
Skin in the game
Directly held shares as reported after each trade, indexed to 100 five years back. Direct holdings only: trust and family-entity positions are per-entity in the filings and do not sum honestly, so this chart refuses to guess. The steps are the trades.
Who holds what
| Insider | Role | Shares held | Buys 12 m | Sales 12 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warden Kathy J President and CEO | CEO | 201.5K | — | $20.2M |
| KLEINER MADELEINE | Director | 21K | — | — |
| Keffer David F CVP & Chief Financial Officer | CFO | 18.1K | — | — |
| SCHOEWE THOMAS M | Director | 17K | — | — |
| Caylor Mark A CVP & Pres, Mission Systems | Officer | 16.4K | — | — |
| ROUGHEAD GARY | Director | 12.2K | — | — |
| Jones Thomas H CVP & Pres Aeronautics Systems | Officer | 12.2K | — | — |
| Brown Marianne Catherine | Director | 11.6K | — | — |
| Turley James S | Director | 6,738 | — | — |
| FUDGE ANN M | Director | 5,792 | — | — |
| WELSH MARK A III | Director | 4,480 | — | $226K |
| ABNEY DAVID P | Director | 2,824 | — | — |
| KRISHNA ARVIND | Director | 2,749 | — | — |
| Fleming Robert J. CVP and Pres. Space Systems | Officer | 2,704 | — | — |
Open-market trade log
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $550.68 | $1K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $552.95 | $1K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $553.90 | $1K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 4 | $554.14 | $2K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 6 | $549.50 | $3K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 8 | $544.53 | $4K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 10 | $548.32 | $5K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 11 | $546.42 | $6K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 19 | $545.59 | $10K |
| 2026-08-03 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 31 | $547.42 | $17K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 1 | $566.60 | $567 |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 1 | $577.05 | $577 |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $574.51 | $1K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 3 | $571.74 | $2K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 4 | $575.59 | $2K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 5 | $568.75 | $3K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 6 | $572.72 | $3K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 7 | $576.38 | $4K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 9 | $569.49 | $5K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 14 | $573.51 | $8K |
| 2026-05-04 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 43 | $570.47 | $25K |
| 2026-03-02 | Simpson Kathryn G (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 873 | $745.00 | $650K |
| 2026-02-27 | ROEDER ROSHAN S (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 1,754 | $720.00 | $1.3M |
| 2026-02-19 | Hardesty Michael A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 147 | $732.98 | $108K |
| 2026-02-19 | ROEDER ROSHAN S (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 512 | $727.62 | $373K |
| 2026-02-19 | Simpson Kathryn G (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 194 | $727.62 | $141K |
| 2026-02-18 | Davies Benjamin R. (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 2,189 | $719.61 | $1.6M |
| 2026-02-17 | Hardesty Michael A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 716 | $700.63 | $502K |
| 2026-02-17 | ROEDER ROSHAN S (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 318 | $702.56 | $223K |
| 2026-02-17 | Simpson Kathryn G (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 779 | $702.56 | $547K |
| 2026-02-13 | Hardesty Michael A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 1 | $703.21 | $408 |
| 2026-02-13 | Hardesty Michael A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 783 | $702.43 | $550K |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 214 | $705.84 | $151K |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 1,306 | $711.14 | $929K |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 2,196 | $706.65 | $1.6M |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 2,303 | $708.63 | $1.6M |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 3,552 | $710.36 | $2.5M |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 4,695 | $707.45 | $3.3M |
| 2026-02-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 5,734 | $709.49 | $4.1M |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $676.14 | $1K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 2 | $677.43 | $1K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 4 | $680.49 | $3K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 5 | $689.31 | $3K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 6 | $683.79 | $4K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 7 | $684.67 | $5K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 8 | $681.68 | $5K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 8 | $687.64 | $6K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 10 | $685.33 | $7K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 10 | $688.51 | $7K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 11 | $686.43 | $8K |
| 2026-02-02 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 22 | $682.47 | $15K |
| 2026-01-06 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 3,000 | $615.00 | $1.8M |
| 2026-01-05 | Warden Kathy J (CEO) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 7,000 | $600.00 | $4.2M |
| 2025-12-09 | ROEDER ROSHAN S (Officer) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 84 | $555.35 | $47K |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 1 | $560.39 | $560 |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 1 | $566.15 | $566 |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 6 | $561.51 | $3K |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 7 | $562.52 | $4K |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 9 | $563.62 | $5K |
| 2025-11-24 | WELSH MARK A III (Director) | Planned sale (10b5-1) | 12 | $565.31 | $7K |
“Since trade” compares with the latest insider-implied price, not a market quote; this site carries no market data by design.
Filing hygiene
How to read this
A Form 4 transaction code decides everything. P is an open-market purchase and S an open-market sale; those two are the only codes where an insider chose to trade. A is a grant, M an option exercise or vesting, F shares withheld to cover tax, G a gift. Most “insiders dumped billions” headlines are code F and M mechanics.
Sales flagged 10b5-1 run on a plan the insider adopted in advance; since 2023 every Form 4 carries that flag. Buys have historically predicted returns, sales mostly have not, and this page states filings, not advice.