A Form 4 is filed within two business days of a company insider — an officer, a director, or a holder of more than ten percent of the stock — changing their position in the shares. All 10 filings in this group are Form 4s for The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
The difficulty with reading these filings as a group is that a single form type covers transactions that mean entirely different things. An executive spending their own money to buy stock and an executive having shares withheld to pay tax on a vesting grant both appear as a Form 4. Every filing below is therefore tagged with the nature of the underlying transaction, taken from the transaction code reported on the form itself.
Across the 10 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 6 compensation award, 2 open-market sale and 1 mixed open-market activity. The remaining 1 filing reports no transaction line — a holdings statement, or a form whose transaction table could not be read — so it is left unclassified rather than guessed at. 3 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-10-16
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
OPPENHEIMER PETER (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
65 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: OPPENHEIMER PETER (Director)
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-10-16
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
JOHNSON KEVIN R (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
44 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: JOHNSON KEVIN R (Director)
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-10-16
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
HESS JOHN B (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
29 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: HESS JOHN B (Director)
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-10-16
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
Flaherty Mark A. (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
29 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: Flaherty Mark A. (Director)
Form 4
Open-market sale
Insider Selling
2026-09-01
GS insider LESLIE ERICKA T (Chief Administrative Officer) sold 600 shares (~$620.3K)
LESLIE ERICKA T, listed as Chief Administrative Officer at GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC, reported an open-market sale of 600 GS shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.
The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
S |
Open-market sale
|
600 |
$1,033.80 |
$620.3K |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: LESLIE ERICKA T (Chief Administrative Officer)
Shares: 600
Est. Value: $620.3K
Form 4
Mixed open-market activity
Mixed Insider Activity
2026-08-13
GS insider GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (Insider) reported mixed Form 4 activity
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (Insider) filed a Form 4 showing both purchase and sale activity. Review the SEC filing for the transaction-by-transaction details before drawing a directional conclusion.
The filing reports both purchases and sales on the open market. Read the transaction lines individually before drawing a directional conclusion.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
P |
Open-market purchase
|
85,000 |
$21.00 |
$1.78M |
S |
Open-market sale
|
988 |
$22.03 |
$21.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
447 |
$21.87 |
$9.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
1,332 |
$22.03 |
$29.3K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
200 |
$22.05 |
$4.4K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
1,556 |
$22.06 |
$34.3K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
3,402 |
$22.02 |
$74.9K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
200 |
$22.10 |
$4.4K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
480 |
$21.55 |
$10.3K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
100 |
$22.11 |
$2.2K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
753 |
$21.97 |
$16.5K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
672 |
$22.02 |
$14.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
6,970 |
$22.03 |
$153.5K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
400 |
$22.02 |
$8.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
1,180 |
$21.84 |
$25.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
1,040 |
$22.05 |
$22.9K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
300 |
$20.84 |
$6.3K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
443 |
$21.78 |
$9.6K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
200 |
$22.05 |
$4.4K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
700 |
$22.07 |
$15.4K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
1,163 |
$22.19 |
$25.8K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
100 |
$21.99 |
$2.2K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
6,763 |
$21.61 |
$146.1K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
76,418 |
$21.04 |
$1.61M |
C |
Derivative conversion
|
1,957,134 |
— |
— |
C |
Derivative conversion
|
478,498 |
— |
— |
P |
Open-market purchase
|
500,000 |
$17.00 |
$8.50M |
C |
Derivative conversion
derivative · Series B Preferred Stock
|
18,181,830 |
— |
— |
C |
Derivative conversion
derivative · Series C Preferred Stock
|
4,445,275 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (Insider)
Shares: 690,807
Est. Value: $12.54M
Form 4
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-08-10
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (10% Owner) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (10% Owner)
Form 4
Open-market sale
Insider Selling
2026-08-06
GS insider LESLIE ERICKA T (Chief Administrative Officer) sold 175 shares (~$184.4K)
LESLIE ERICKA T, listed as Chief Administrative Officer at GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC, reported an open-market sale of 175 GS shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.
The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
S |
Open-market sale
|
37 |
$1,053.05 |
$39.0K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
129 |
$1,054.18 |
$136.0K |
S |
Open-market sale
|
9 |
$1,054.77 |
$9.5K |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: LESLIE ERICKA T (Chief Administrative Officer)
Shares: 175
Est. Value: $184.4K
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-07-17
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
Flaherty Mark A. (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
22 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: Flaherty Mark A. (Director)
Form 4
Compensation award
Tax / Compensation Filing
2026-07-17
GS insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding
HESS JOHN B (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.
Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Transactions reported on this filing
| Code |
Nature |
Shares |
Price |
Value |
A |
Compensation award
derivative · Restricted Stock Units
|
22 |
— |
— |
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction)
Insider: HESS JOHN B (Director)