Yacob Ezra Y, Chairman and CEO of EOG Resources (EOG), has filed 41 Form 4 transactions with the SEC, all in the single energy company. The pattern is overwhelmingly one of compensation-driven activity rather than discretionary trading. Across all filings, Yacob has recorded zero open-market purchases and approximately $1.85 million in open-market sales, with an additional $67,144 in acquired value from grants and awards. The most recent two transactions, both in 2026, were code "A" grants—compensation events, not conviction buys—valued at $14,851.66 on June 30 and $354.52 on April 30.
The bulk of Yacob's trading activity clusters around option exercises and automatic share withholdings. On May 21, 2024, he executed a multi-part transaction: an option exercise (code "M") valued at roughly $1.04 million, a same-day sale back to the issuer (code "D") of about $1.04 million, and two open-market sales totaling $443,542.97. That same day, shares worth $237,782.70 were withheld for taxes (code "F"). More recently, large "F" withholdings appeared on February 27, 2026 ($2.18 million) and September 29, 2025 ($1.42 million), reflecting vesting of equity awards rather than discretionary selling.
The absence of any "P" purchases across the entire filing history signals a purely sell-side insider, but the composition of those sales matters. Yacob's open-market sales are infrequent and tied to option exercises, while the recurring "A" grants and "F" tax withholdings are mechanical byproducts of his compensation structure. The recent direction, through mid-2026, shows no new discretionary selling—only scheduled equity grants and automatic withholdings, suggesting a passive posture toward his EOG stake rather than an active bearish or bullish signal.
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