SEIDMAN LAWRENCE B has filed 109 Form 4 trades, all in a single company, Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG). The pattern is overwhelmingly one-sided. Open-market purchases total roughly $5.42 million, against open-market sales of about $474,000. There are no option exercises, grants, or other compensation-related entries in the data, meaning the buying is cash out of pocket.
The recent activity is a clean buying streak. In the last four filing clusters, SEIDMAN filed 25 open-market purchases and zero sales. The most recent cluster came on September 8, 2026, with seven separate purchase transactions ranging from about $17,851 to $130,896, for a combined value near $352,000 on that day alone. A similar cluster on August 25, 2026, added roughly $167,000 across six purchases. On August 7, 2026, six more purchases totaled about $666,000he largest single transaction in that batch was $262,083. The buying goes back further, with smaller purchases in June 2026, including a $4,208 transaction on June 1.
The size of the recent buys has been increasing. From roughly $4,000 to $37,000 per trade in early June, the values jumped to between $37,000 and $262,000 in August and September. SEIDMAN has put more than $5 million into BWFG through open-market purchases, and the most recent filings show no sales at all. Across all 109 trades, the buying-to-selling dollar ratio is better than 11 to 1.
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