SARGENT RONALD

Ronald Sargent, the former Staples CEO now serving on multiple public-company boards, shows a genuinely split insider pattern across his four active director relationships. At Wells Fargo, every one of his 51 recorded transactions since 2017 has been an acquisition — 18,050 shares added, with zero sales — consistent with regular restricted-stock grants rather than open-market conviction buying, but notable for having no offsetting sale activity at all. Five Below runs the opposite direction: 191,555 shares sold across 77 transactions since 2012 with zero shares bought, including a concrete recent move — two 10,000-share open-market sales on March 23 and March 24, 2026, at roughly $231 per share, together worth about $4.6 million. At Kroger, where he has the longest-running and most active relationship (165 transactions since 2006), recent activity is dominated by stock-grant acquisitions rather than sales, including a 96,139-share grant in December 2025 and a 7,916-share grant on July 15, 2026, his most recent recorded transaction. His legacy tenure at Staples (2003-2016) was overwhelmingly a seller, with 9.5 million shares sold against just 8,500 bought over 329 transactions.