Latest SEC filings for Mercer International Inc. (MERC) explained in plain English. Covers insider buying and selling (Form 4), proposed insider sales (Form 144), material company events (8-K), and quarterly & annual reports (10-Q / 10-K). StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries; original filings remain at the SEC/source links and were authored by their filers, not StrongBuyAnalytics. Filing dates shown are source dates. Coverage and detection can be delayed or incomplete because of SEC availability, amendments, parsing, caching, or outages. Latest source filing date shown: 2026-10-02.
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 13 filings in this group are Form 4s for Mercer International 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 13 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 11 compensation award and 1 open-market purchase. 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. 1 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.
KELLOGG PETER R (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.
KELLOGG PETER R, listed as 10% Owner at MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC., reported an open-market purchase of 419,743 MERC shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.
The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
P |
Open-market purchase | 16,000 | $0.90 | $14.4K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 36,000 | $0.90 | $32.4K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 2,731 | $0.90 | $2.5K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 10,154 | $0.91 | $9.2K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 1,047 | $0.92 | $958.53 |
P |
Open-market purchase | 36,000 | $0.89 | $32.0K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 36,000 | $0.85 | $30.6K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 34,733 | $0.80 | $27.7K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 23,637 | $0.79 | $18.8K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 36,000 | $0.82 | $29.7K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 136,000 | $0.86 | $116.9K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 36,000 | $0.93 | $33.5K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 1,210 | $0.90 | $1.1K |
P |
Open-market purchase | 200 | $0.91 | $181.70 |
P |
Open-market purchase | 14,031 | $0.91 | $12.8K |
Ridder Wolfram (Senior VP, Innovation & Gov.) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 18,665 | — | — |
BECK WOLFGANG (Senior VP Global Wood Sourcing) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 12,967 | — | — |
Short Richard George (CFO & Secretary) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 31,504 | — | — |
ARGUIN GUY (Chief Human Resources Officer) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 13,612 | — | — |
STANNUS GENEVIEVE (VP, Treasurer) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 8,583 | — | — |
Heine Eric Xavier (VP Sales, Marketing& Logistics) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 10,750 | — | — |
ALEKSON CYNTHIA MARGARET (VP, Controller) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 7,188 | — | — |
Merforth Carsten (COO, Wood Products) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 26,764 | — | — |
Koppensteiner Adolf (COO, Pulp Products) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 30,505 | — | — |
BUENO ESTRADA JUAN CARLOS (Director, CEO & President) 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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Restricted Stock Units | 126,808 | — | — |
CORRICK THOMAS KEVIN (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.
| Code | Nature | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Compensation award derivative · Deferred Stock Units | 25,000 | — | — |
An 8-K reports a material event in the window between scheduled reports. There are 6 in this period for Mercer International Inc. Each 8-K names the item number it is filed under, and that number is the fastest way to tell a routine disclosure from a consequential one.
Item 2.02 is an earnings release, Item 5.02 is a change of directors or officers, and Item 1.01 or 2.01 covers a material agreement or a completed acquisition. Item 7.01 and Item 8.01 are the general-purpose disclosure items and carry no fixed meaning on their own.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.
The periodic reports are where the audited and reviewed financial statements live. This period contains 1 quarterly report (10-Q) for Mercer International Inc.
The two are not equivalent in weight. A 10-K is audited by an external firm and includes the full risk factor disclosure, business description and management discussion; a 10-Q is unaudited, reviewed rather than examined, and much shorter. When a figure in a quarterly report is later revised, the annual report is usually where the correction appears.
An amended report — 10-K/A or 10-Q/A — restates or corrects something in the original filing, and is worth reading against the version it replaces.
MERCER INTERNATIONAL INC. filed its quarterly report with the SEC. This report includes unaudited financial statements and management discussion for the quarter.
Each displayed record links to an original source document. StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries, not the filing itself. Parsing may omit context or contain errors, so read the original document in full.
The nature shown on each insider filing comes from the transaction code the filer entered on the form itself — P for an open-market purchase, A for a compensation award, F for shares withheld to pay tax, M for an option exercise. Where one filing contains several codes, the transaction table lists them line by line.
Insider activity is routinely summarised as buying or selling, which flattens together decisions that mean very different things. Shares withheld for tax on a vesting grant are an automatic administrative step; shares bought on the open market are someone committing their own money at the current price.
A filing records what happened, not why. Form 4 does not always disclose whether a sale was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, and no single filing is a basis for a decision on MERC. Read these alongside the fundamentals rather than in isolation.
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