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Edward H Bastian sold $12M of DAL

Chief Executive Officer at DELTA AIR LINES, INC.. 173,230 shares at an average of $71.00, traded Jan 15, 2026, filed Jan 16, 2026.

Warning score
55
Value
$12M
173,230 shares
Holdings after
632,823
-21% from before
From 52-week low
+101%
low $35.26, close $70.78
From 52-week high
-1%
high $71.75, as of Jan 15, 2026

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $12.3M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 21% of holdings
    +5
  • Cluster
    7 insiders selling within 14 days
    +15
  • Exercise and sell
    Shares came from an option exercise in the same filing
    -15

What happened after comparable sells

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

DALOct 9, 2026 · close 82.17
Since filing Jan 16, 2026: +17.6%SPY +13.4% · excess +4.1%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001683168-26-000366, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Jan 15, 2026MOption exercise
Common Stock
+173,230$43.61$7.6M806,053Jan 16, 2026
Jan 15, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-173,230$71.00$12M632,823Jan 16, 2026
Jan 15, 2026MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-173,230$0.00$00Jan 16, 2026

Related signals

Other insiders at DELTA AIR LINES, INC. and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
50Moderate
DALsell
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Edward H Bastian
Chief Executive Officer
$7.0M
100,000 shares
-7%
60Notable
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Alain Bellemare
EVP & Pres. - International
$2.6M
35,212 shares
-20%
55Moderate
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Peter W Carter
Chief External Affairs Officer
$2.0M
27,000 shares
-6%
65Notable
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Glen W Hauenstein
President
$31M
426,933 shares
-73%
65Notable
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Steven M Sear
EVP - Global Sales & Distrib
$2.9M
38,600 shares
-27%
59Moderate
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Glen W Hauenstein
President
$964k
13,576 shares
-2%
75Notable
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Rahul D Samant
EVP & Chief Info Officer
$4.4M
62,528 shares
-75%
56Moderate
DALsell 6
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
William C Carroll
SVP, Fin & Controller
$406k
5,967 shares
-45%
60Notable
DALsell 7
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Erik Storey Snell
EVP & Chief Cust Exper Officer
$2.8M
39,420 shares
-53%
65Notable
DALsell 7
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Alain Bellemare
EVP & Pres. - International
$2.5M
36,000 shares
-27%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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