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Lester Machado sold $159k of BCAL

director at Southern California Bancorp \ CA. 7,500 shares at an average of $21.19, traded Jul 31, 2026, filed Aug 4, 2026.

Warning score
21
Value
$159k
7,500 shares
Holdings after
22,391
-25% from before
From 52-week low
+48%
low $14.29, close $21.18
From 52-week high
-1%
high $21.46, as of Jul 31, 2026

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $159k at market
    +11
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 25% of holdings
    +10
  • Cluster
    No other insider selling within 14 days
    0
  • 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.

BCALOct 12, 2026 · close 21.49
Since filing Aug 4, 2026: +0.2%SPY +1.1% · excess -0.9%

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 0001968951-26-000004, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Jul 31, 2026MOption exercise
Common Stock
+7,500$12.96$97k29,891Aug 4, 2026
Jul 31, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-7,500$21.19$159k22,391Aug 4, 2026
Jul 31, 2026JOther
Common Stock
-9,142$0.00$013,249Aug 4, 2026
Jul 31, 2026JOther
Common Stockindirect: Lester Machado & Robert M Pedersen TR UA 03/13/14 Machado-Pedersen Family Trust
+9,142$0.00$053,712Aug 4, 2026
Jul 31, 2026MOption exercise
Stock Optionsderivative
-7,500$0.00$00Aug 4, 2026

Related signals

Other insiders at Southern California Bancorp \ CA and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
21Weak
BCALbuy
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
Frank L. Muller
director
$9,959
450 shares
+23%
48Moderate
BCALsell 2
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
Richard Hernandez
President
$325k
17,000 shares
-19%
58Moderate
BCALsell 2
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
David I Rainer
Executive Chairman
$1.4M
75,000 shares
-17%
38Weak
BCALsell
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
Jean Carandang
Bank Chief Financial Officer
$143k
8,000 shares
-18%
43Moderate
BCALbuy
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
David J. Volk
director
$503k
27,000 shares
+2259%
60Notable
BCALsell
Southern California Bancorp \ CA
David J. Volk
director
$44M
2,346,104 shares
-100%

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.

Lester Machado sold $159k of BCAL | InsiderTell