GOTTWALD JOHN D

CIK: 0001182451
Director10% Owner
Primary company: TREDEGAR CORP (TG)

GOTTWALD JOHN D is a corporate insider at TREDEGAR CORP (TG) filing SEC Form 4 transactions. 305 transactions across 2 companies, totaling $4,478,487 in purchases and $36,405,827 in sales. Source: SEC EDGAR.

AI Insider Summary

John D. Gottwald (CIK 0001182451, 305 transactions) has filed a remarkable 25-event streak of back-to-back S-coded market sells on Tredegar Corp. (TG) between November 18, 2025 and June 12, 2026 — no buys, no option exercises, no plan awards, no other codes interrupting the sequence. The 25 trades range from 5 shares ($8.50) to 54,268 shares ($8.70) and collectively dispose of roughly 210,379 TG shares at prices between $7.76 and $9.05, an aggregate of approximately $1.8M over the seven-month window. His lifetime TG record is 296,214 buy-side against 591,279 sell-side shares — a near 1:2 ratio that includes a past accumulation phase (2004–2008 ALB/ALEM era) and now a steady liquidation phase. The sharp observation is mechanical regularity: selling small parcels on a near-daily cadence across seven months is the fingerprint of a systematic distribution plan rather than a discretionary exit, and the absence of any buy-back or averaging-in is notable given that TG share prices in the recent window are near multi-year lows. His Albemarle (ALB) history ended in February 2008 with 3.5M shares sold — a separate historical chapter with no current relevance.

Gottwald's recent TG Form 4 file is almost monomaniacal in its purity: 25 consecutive S-coded market sells from November 18, 2025 through June 12, 2026, with zero buy-side events, zero option exercises, zero plan awards. The trade sizes vary widely (5 to 54,268 shares), and the prices walk a narrow band from $7.76 to $9.05, all within approximately 14% of each other. This is the clearest possible example of a systematic distribution plan running through a broker's execution algo — near-daily trades of varying size to avoid signaling intent while disposing of a concentrated position.

The aggregate context.

Total Transactions
305
Total Buy Value
$4.48M
Total Sell Value
$36.41M
Net Activity
$-31.93M
Last Transaction
Jun 2026
Companies
2

Companies

Transaction History

Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 insider transaction filings.

Type
Sale
Shares
20,146
Price
$8.16
Value
$164K
Type
Sale
Shares
6,152
Price
$8.00
Value
$49K
Type
Sale
Shares
15,808
Price
$8.04
Value
$127K
Type
Sale
Shares
2,351
Price
$8.00
Value
$19K
Type
Sale
Shares
3,333
Price
$7.76
Value
$26K
Type
Sale
Shares
33
Price
$8.00
Value
$264
Type
Sale
Shares
847
Price
$7.77
Value
$7K
Type
Sale
Shares
197
Price
$8.00
Value
$2K
Type
Sale
Shares
5
Price
$8.00
Value
$40
Type
Sale
Shares
4,193
Price
$8.02
Value
$34K
Type
Sale
Shares
10,352
Price
$8.01
Value
$83K
Type
Sale
Shares
10,144
Price
$8.00
Value
$81K
Type
Sale
Shares
120
Price
$8.00
Value
$960
Type
Sale
Shares
21
Price
$8.00
Value
$168
Type
Sale
Shares
7,383
Price
$8.01
Value
$59K
Type
Sale
Shares
4,551
Price
$8.34
Value
$38K
Type
Sale
Shares
4,865
Price
$8.30
Value
$40K
Type
Sale
Shares
25,356
Price
$8.62
Value
$218K
Type
Sale
Shares
3,418
Price
$8.87
Value
$30K
Type
Sale
Shares
65
Price
$8.80
Value
$572