McDermott William R, Chairman and CEO, has filed 71 Form 4 transactions across three companies, with a net buying bias. His open-market purchases total $8.28 million against open-market sales of $6.31 million. The buying is concentrated in ServiceNow (NOW), where he made two purchases on February 27, 2026, valued at $529.80 and $2,999,528.17. No open-market sales appear in his recent activity.
The bulk of his recent filings are mechanical. Option exercises (code M) and shares withheld to cover taxes (code F) dominate the NOW transactions from May through August 2026. The F transactions range from $212,576.52 on May 15 to $659,554.25 on February 17, with several in the $400,000 to $590,000 range. These are automatic dispositions tied to equity compensation, not discretionary sales. He also received grants (code A) in NOW, Intuit (INTU), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), and FIG, all valued at $0 in the filings.
The largest single line item is a NOW grant on April 29, 2026, valued at $242,066,899.20, which is compensation rather than a purchase. His last two discretionary actions, the February purchases in NOW, are the only P codes in the recent window. Since then, every transaction has been an M, F, or A. The pattern shows a CEO who buys his own stock on the open market but has not sold any shares in recent months.
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