SB SEC Filing News — Safe Bulkers, Inc.

Latest SEC filings for Safe Bulkers, Inc. (SB) 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: 2026-09-14.

Safe Bulkers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides marine drybulk transportation services internationally. The company owns and operates a fleet of dry bulk vessels for transporting bulk cargoes comprising coal, grain, and iron ore. Its fleet consists of 45 vessels, including 8 Panamax class vessels, 12 Kamsarmax class vessels, 17 post-Panamax class vessels, and 8 Capesize class vessels with an aggregate carrying capacity of 4,559,000 deadweight tons. Safe Bulkers, Inc. was incorporate…
Sector: Industrials Industry: Marine Shipping Market Cap: $920.9M CIK: 1434754
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Bullish Classifications
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Bearish Classifications
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Insider Transactions
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Material Events (8-K)
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Periodic Reports
What you're looking at: Each item below is parsed from an actual SEC filing submitted by Safe Bulkers, Inc.. Form 4 = confirmed insider transaction · Form 144 = proposed sale notice · 8-K = material event (earnings, M&A, leadership change, etc.) · 10-Q / 10-K = quarterly / annual report.
SB Filing Activity Snapshot 2024-05-07 — 2026-09-14
Insider Transactions (Form 4)
0 buys vs 0 sells
Insider buying and selling activity is balanced in this period.
Largest Form 144 Filing
$619.1K
Ole Wikborg · 2024-05-20
109,767 shares · Form 144
Form 144 Notices
7
Proposed insider sales filed — Form 144 is a notice of intent, not a confirmed transaction. Actual sales are confirmed via Form 4.
Insider Transactions 1 · Forms 3, 4 and 5

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 1 filing in this group is a Form 4 for Safe Bulkers, 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 1 insider filing shown, the breakdown is 1 compensation award. None of the classified filings involved a discretionary open-market trade, so this period says nothing about what insiders think of the price.

What each transaction type means

Compensation award ×1
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.
Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-09-14

SB insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Hajioannou Polys (Director, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

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 1,500,000 — —
Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hajioannou Polys (Director, Chief Executive Officer, 10% Owner) Shares: 1,500,000
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Proposed Insider Sales 7 · Form 144

A Form 144 is a notice of intent to sell restricted or control securities. It is not a record that anything was sold. Safe Bulkers, Inc. has 7 such notices in this period.

The distinction matters because a Form 144 is frequently reported as though it were a completed insider sale. The filer may sell all of the shares covered, some of them, or none at all, and there is no obligation to update the notice either way. A sale that is actually executed by an officer or director shows up separately on a Form 4, which is the filing to check before treating a proposed sale as a real one.

Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2025-12-23

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by Frank V Sica (26,554 shares) ~$128.0K

Frank V Sica filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: Frank V Sica Shares: 26,554 Est. Value: $128.0K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-06-05

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by K & A ADAMOPOULOS & H TSALAS & IOLANDI ADAMOPOULOU JT TEN (6,000 shares) ~$37.2K

K & A ADAMOPOULOS & H TSALAS & IOLANDI ADAMOPOULOU JT TEN filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: K & A ADAMOPOULOS & H TSALAS & IOLANDI ADAMOPOULOU JT TEN Shares: 6,000 Est. Value: $37.2K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-05-20

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by Ole Wikborg (49,837 shares) ~$281.1K

Ole Wikborg filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: Ole Wikborg Shares: 49,837 Est. Value: $281.1K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-05-20

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by Ole Wikborg (109,767 shares) ~$619.1K

Ole Wikborg filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: Ole Wikborg Shares: 109,767 Est. Value: $619.1K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-05-16

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA (15,531 shares) ~$85.1K

IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA Shares: 15,531 Est. Value: $85.1K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-05-15

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA (12,469 shares) ~$68.2K

IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: IOANNIS FOTEINOS & MICHAIL FOTEINOS & ELENI KLAPPA Shares: 12,469 Est. Value: $68.2K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →
Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2024-05-07

SB Form 144 filed for proposed insider sale by LOUKAS BARMPARIS, MARIA LIAROU AND MYRTO MARIA BARMPARI (40,000 shares) ~$213.9K

LOUKAS BARMPARIS, MARIA LIAROU AND MYRTO MARIA BARMPARI filed a Form 144 with the SEC indicating intent to sell SB (SAFE BULKERS, INC.) shares. Form 144 reflects a proposed sale, not a completed transaction. The actual execution, if any, would typically appear later in a Form 4.

Filing: Form 144 (Proposed Sale Notice) Insider: LOUKAS BARMPARIS, MARIA LIAROU AND MYRTO MARIA BARMPARI Shares: 40,000 Est. Value: $213.9K
View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

How we classify Safe Bulkers, Inc.'s filings

Straight from EDGAR

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.

Transaction codes, not guesswork

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.

Why the distinction matters

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.

What this page does not tell you

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 SB. Read these alongside the fundamentals rather than in isolation.

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