JAEHNERT FRANK M

CIK: 0001222849
Director
Primary company: BRADY CORP (BRC)

JAEHNERT FRANK M is a corporate insider at BRADY CORP (BRC) filing SEC Form 4 transactions. 588 transactions across 4 companies, totaling $730,787 in purchases and $16,511,616 in sales. Source: SEC EDGAR.

AI Insider Summary

Frank M. Jaehnert's 588-transaction Form 4 file splits into one closed chapter and three open ones. The Brady Corp (BRC) chapter — 485 transactions, 626,806 shares sold against only 2,000 bought — was a long-running liquidation that produced the file's overwhelming sell-side volume and ended before 2024. The remaining chapters at ITRI, NDSN, and BGG share a single feature: zero recorded sells, with the historical share count built entirely through awards and prior-period accumulation. ITRI accumulated nothing, with 46 recent transactions and every one a Code A award (475 to 937 shares). NDSN produced 35 transactions of awards ranging from 730 to 822 shares. BGG's twenty-two-transaction file never sold a share and accumulated 65,000 via buys. The most recent twenty-four filings across ITRI and NDSN contain zero sells and no other transaction type — the absence of new BRC filings is the file's most informative current signal: the primary liquidation is closed. What remains are the vesting mechanics of three concurrent board relationships that never produced a sell and currently behave like subscription-based equity deposits. The right watchlist frame for this file is whether any sell-side activity ever reappears at BRC or in the secondary relationships, which would signal a new chapter opening — but the recent record offers no evidence of that.

The three secondary relationships have a different structure. ITRI arrived in 2015 and has produced 46 transactions of pure Code A awards — 0 buys, 0 sells, the share count growing only through the non-discretionary delivery of restricted stock units. NDSN, which began in 2012, is near-identical: 35 transactions, all awards. BGG, the smallest relationship at 22 transactions, accumulated 65,000 shares via open-market buys and never sold — making it the only secondary position with a non-award acquisition history.

The sharp-edged observation is at the intersection of these two structures. The Brady file moved 626,000 shares through 485 filings over twenty years. The ITRI file has moved fewer than 15,000 shares in eleven years through 46 filings, most of which Cluster around 500-900 shares. At that pace, ITRI would need roughly a century to match Brady's volume, and the absence of sells means none of it is being converted to cash. The file is most useful as a boundary case: a secondary board relationship that generates filings without generating informational events, a filing calendar paid in RSUs that behaves as a calendar artifact rather than a trading signal.

Analysis generated by 13F Insight from SEC Form 4 filing data. Methodology
Total Transactions
588
Total Buy Value
$731K
Total Sell Value
$16.51M
Net Activity
$-15.78M
Last Transaction
Jul 2026
Companies
4

Companies

Transaction History

Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 insider transaction filings.

Type
Award
Shares
621
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
580
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
555
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
822
Price
$231.95
Value
$191K
Type
Award
Shares
747
Price
$249.03
Value
$186K
Type
Award
Shares
475
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
509
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
558
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
665
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
749
Price
$211.52
Value
$158K
Type
Award
Shares
701
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
578
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
745
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
797
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
937
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
851
Price
$0.00
Value
$0
Type
Award
Shares
730
Price
$225.93
Value
$165K
Type
Award
Shares
937
Price
$44.01
Value
$41K
Type
Award
Shares
851
Price
$48.43
Value
$41K
Type
Award
Shares
774
Price
$0.00
Value
$0