Insider trade

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sold about $4.45M of company shares

Traded Feb 18, 2026 · Filed Feb 20, 2026

AlphabetGOOGL

~$4.45M
Reported value · 15K sh @ $304.46: 2.82M
Holds after · shares reported: +11.5%
stock since the trade · S&P 500 +11.3%, $303.33 → $338.24 on Oct 1

Why it stands out

The boss of Alphabet sold $4.45M of Alphabet shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.

No pre-arranged plan is mentioned in the filing
Routine for them: 94 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 18, 2026
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Feb 20, 2026

CEO$1M+

Context

Classification

open market sale

Code S — open-market or private sale

Absolute commitment

~$4,446,029

Shares × reported transaction price

Timing vs results

14 days after results of Feb 4, 2026, 70 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 $303.33 on Feb 18, 2026, 110% 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), 80% of the way up, from 251 adjusted closes. 30 trading days earlier: $316.54 on Jan 5, 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	-1.6%	+0.6%	-2.2%
30 days	-6.6%	-3.8%	-2.9%
90 days	+24.9%	+10.0%	+14.9%
180 days	+11.7%	+11.9%	-0.1%

Past results only. Not a forecast.

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001193125-26-061632
Filed / recorded: Feb 20, 2026, 10:14 PM 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: Sundar Pichai
Relationship: Director, Officer
Officer title: Chief Executive Officer
Security: Class C Capital Stock
Table: Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date: Feb 18, 2026
Transaction code: S
Shares / units: 14,603
Price per share: $304.46
Acquired / disposed: Disposed (D)
Shares owned after: 2,819,949
Ownership form: Direct
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 $304.07 to $305.07, inclusive.