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JEF Insider Trading & Form 4 Activity

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
Last filing: Oct 9, 2026·15 days ago
NEUTRAL · LAST 90 DAYS
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Net flow — last 12 months

Monthly net of insider buys minus sells. Green months indicate net buying; red months indicate net selling.

Most active insiders

Ranked by total transaction value over the last 90 days.

INSIDERBOUGHTSOLDNET
Friedman Brian P
President
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—
$0
Handler Richard B
CEO
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—
$0
Larson Matthew Scott
EVP, CFO
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—
$0
O Kane Michael T
Director
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—
$0
Beyer Robert D
Director
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$0
Sharp Michael J.
EVP and General Counsel
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$0
Weiler Melissa
Director
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$0
Ellis-Kirk Matrice
Director
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$0

Recent transactions

Every Form 4 transaction for JEF, newest first.

GIFT
Friedman Brian P · President
Tx Oct 7·Filed Oct 9·EDGAR ↗
100 sh
—
GIFT
Handler Richard B · CEO
Tx Oct 1·Filed Oct 2·EDGAR ↗
842 sh
—
AWARD
Larson Matthew Scott · EVP, CFO
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
746 sh @ $53.09
$40K
AWARD
Handler Richard B · CEO
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
75,531 sh @ $53.09
$4.0M
AWARD
Friedman Brian P · President
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
29,016 sh @ $53.09
$1.5M
AWARD
O Kane Michael T · Director
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
538 sh @ $53.09
$29K
AWARD
Beyer Robert D · Director
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
501 sh @ $53.09
$27K
AWARD
Sharp Michael J. · EVP and General Counsel
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
746 sh @ $53.09
$40K
AWARD
Weiler Melissa · Director
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
165 sh @ $53.09
$9K
AWARD
Ellis-Kirk Matrice · Director
Tx Aug 28·Filed Aug 28·EDGAR ↗
165 sh @ $53.09
$9K
BUY
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. · Director
Tx Jul 15·Filed Aug 21·EDGAR ↗
5,906,542 sh @ $54.86
$324.0M
GIFT
Friedman Brian P · President
Tx Aug 7·Filed Aug 7·EDGAR ↗
81,734 sh
—
BUY
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. · Director
Tx Jul 15·Filed Jul 17·EDGAR ↗
5,906,542 sh @ $53.96
$318.7M
EXERCISE
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. · Director
Tx Jul 10·Filed Jul 13·EDGAR ↗
3,769,500 sh
—
EXERCISE
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. · Director
Tx Jun 30·Filed Jul 2·EDGAR ↗
27,562,500 sh
—
BUY
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. · Director
Tx May 1·Filed Jun 29·EDGAR ↗
6,429,337 sh @ $54.83
$352.5M
TAX
Handler Richard B · CEO
Tx May 23·Filed May 26·EDGAR ↗
1,440,307 sh @ $52.43
$75.5M
SELL
Friedman Brian P · President
Tx May 6·Filed May 8·EDGAR ↗
0 sh @ $51.88
$13
SELL
Friedman Brian P · President
Tx May 6·Filed May 8·EDGAR ↗
1 sh @ $51.91
$38

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About JEF insider trading data

Form 4 is the SEC filing required when an officer, director, or 10% owner of a public company buys or sells the company's stock. By law, these filings must be submitted within two business days of the trade. Tracenotes pulls every Form 4 filing for JEF from EDGAR, parses it, and surfaces the activity on this page.

What insider buying tells you. Open-market purchases by insiders are widely studied as a meaningful signal. Unlike stock awards (which are compensation, not conviction), an executive spending their own money to buy shares of the company they run is a vote of confidence. Studies have found insider-buying clusters — three or more insiders buying within a short window — outperform the broader market over the following year.

What insider selling tells you. Selling is noisier. Many sales are pre-scheduled under SEC Rule 10b5-1 plans, which let insiders sell on a fixed schedule regardless of company news. We label these "10b5-1" so you can see them. Discretionary sales — sales not tied to a plan — are more meaningful, especially when multiple insiders sell in quick succession.

Tracenotes methodology. We scan EDGAR daily for new Form 4 filings, parse them into individual transactions, and detect clusters when three or more distinct insiders buy or sell within a 14-day window. The data on this page covers the last 12 months. For deeper analysis, Tracenotes also runs language-change detection on 10-K and 10-Q filings — that's our core product.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a Form 4 filing?

Form 4 is the SEC disclosure required when a company insider — an officer, director, or 10% owner — buys or sells the company's stock. By law these filings must be submitted within two business days of the trade.

Is insider buying JEF always bullish?

Open-market purchases by insiders are widely viewed as a bullish signal because executives are spending their own money. Stock awards and option exercises are part of compensation and don't carry the same weight, which is why we treat them separately on this page.

What is a 10b5-1 trade?

A trade made under SEC Rule 10b5-1, which lets insiders pre-schedule sales weeks or months in advance. These sales execute on a fixed plan regardless of company news, so they're a weaker signal than discretionary sales. We label them with a "10b5-1" tag.

What is an insider cluster?

A cluster is when three or more distinct insiders buy or sell within a 14-day window. Clusters are studied as stronger signals than single trades because multiple people independently reach the same view. We surface active clusters on Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (JEF) when they form.

Where does JEF insider trading data come from?

Every Form 4 filing for JEF is sourced directly from SEC EDGAR. Tracenotes scans EDGAR daily, parses each Form 4 into individual transactions, and updates this page within hours of new filings.

Nothing on this page constitutes investment advice. Form 4 data is sourced from SEC EDGAR and provided for research purposes only.

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