Insider trade

John Kent Walker sold about $3.48M of Alphabet shares on the open market

Traded Feb 17, 2026 · Filed Feb 20, 2026

AlphabetGOOGL

~$3.48M
Reported value · 12K sh @ $301.69: 34K
Holds after · shares reported: +14.7%
stock since the trade · S&P 500 +13.5%, $302.02 → $346.47 on Oct 5

Why it stands out

Alphabet's President, Global Affairs, CLO sold $3.48M of Alphabet shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.

No pre-arranged plan is mentioned in the filing
Sold 25% of their holdings
Routine for them: 20 sales in the past year
7 insiders at Alphabet sold within a month

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Feb 17, 2026
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Feb 20, 2026

OfficerIndirect holding$1M+

Context

Classification

open market sale

Code S — open-market or private sale

Absolute commitment

~$3,478,787

Shares × reported transaction price

Timing vs results

13 days after results of Feb 4, 2026, 71 days before results of Apr 29, 2026

Results dates are the company's own 8-K (Item 2.02). Many companies only let insiders trade in a window after results

Price at the time

Closed at $302.02 on Feb 17, 2026, 109% above its 52-week low and 12% below its high, after a 4% drop over the previous 30 trading days

52-week range $144.70 (Apr 8, 2025) to $343.69 (Feb 2, 2026), 79% of the way up, from 251 adjusted closes. 30 trading days earlier: $315.15 on Jan 2, 2026. Describes the past only, not a forecast

Planned / mechanical clue

None found in footnotes

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

After it was reported

After	Stock	S&P 500	Difference
7 days	−1.0%	−0.5%	−0.5%
30 days	−4.1%	−4.9%	+0.8%
90 days	+23.1%	+7.7%	+15.3%
180 days	+9.4%	+11.6%	−2.1%

Past results only. Not a forecast.

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001193125-26-060024
Filed / recorded: Feb 20, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC
Added to OQRO: Oct 1, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC
Parser: form4-xml-v1
Data quality: Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer: Alphabet Inc.
Issuer CIK: 1652044
Ticker: GOOGL
Reporting person: John Kent Walker
Relationship: Officer
Officer title: President, Global Affairs, CLO
Security: Class C Capital Stock
Table: Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date: Feb 17, 2026
Transaction code: S
Shares / units: 11,531
Price per share: $301.69
Acquired / disposed: Disposed (D)
Shares owned after: 33,870
Ownership form: Indirect — By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees
Amendment: No

Footnotes from the filing

The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $301.19 to $302.19 inclusive.