James A. Burke, President and CEO of Vistra Corp (VST), has filed 118 Form 4 transactions, all in the single company. The pattern is heavily weighted toward selling. Open-market sales total $160.1 million, while open-market purchases total just $1.17 million. The bulk of the remaining activity consists of option exercises, stock awards, and automatic tax-withholding dispositions.
The recent direction, however, shows a notable buying tilt. Burke made three open-market purchases in late August and early September 2026: $270,000 on August 24, $299,178 on August 31, and $603,891 on September 1. Those are his only purchases in the recent window. In the prior 12 months, his open-market sales were frequent and large. He sold $3.6 million on December 11, 2025, $4.09 million on November 11, 2025, and a series of sales in late October 2025 ranging from $374,418 to $4.17 million. The largest single disposition was a February 24, 2026 tax-withholding event valued at $21.5 million, tied to a $54.9 million stock award on the same date.
The buying is small relative to the selling. His three recent purchases total $1.17 million, which is less than the value of any single sale in the past year. The sales are consistent with a CEO monetizing vested options and restricted stock. The purchases, clustered within nine days, are the first open-market buys in the data and represent a departure from the prior pattern. Whether that signals a change in conviction is not something the filings show.
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