WATKINS WILLIAM D

CIK: 0001233433
Primary company: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (STX)

WATKINS WILLIAM D is a corporate insider at SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (STX) filing SEC Form 4 transactions. 259 transactions across 6 companies, totaling $0 in purchases and $3,555,056,551 in sales. Source: SEC EDGAR.

AI Insider Summary

William D. Watkins's largest single transaction in this window was a 20,000-share Flex Ltd sale on November 21, 2025 at $54.5225 — his biggest sale by share count, and a price up from $51.79 in August. The same month, at his other current board seat, Nextracker (recorded under a slightly inconsistent issuer name, "Nextpower Inc.," in some filings but matching Nextracker's ticker NXT and CIK elsewhere in his record), he sold 10,000 shares at $91.852 — up 61.7% from $56.79 in August, before climbing further to $118.57 by January 2026. Watkins was Seagate Technology's CEO from 2003-2008, selling over 203 million shares in that role; his current activity across four boards is far smaller in scale and entirely routine grants and sales.

A far larger price move at his other board seat, the same month

Reading his other current relationship alongside it tells a more dramatic story. At Nextracker, Watkins sold 10,000 shares in November 2025 at $91.852 — up 61.7% from $56.79 just three months earlier in August — and by January 2026, a further sale came in at $118.57, another 29.1% higher still. (Some of these entries record the issuer name as "Nextpower Inc." rather than "Nextracker Inc.," an inconsistency in the underlying filing data; the ticker NXT and CIK match Nextracker throughout, so this reads as a naming artifact rather than a separate company.) Compared to Flex's modest single-digit percentage move over the same period, Nextracker's roughly two-and-a-half-fold rise across five months is the more consequential price story in Watkins's recent record.

Analysis generated by 13F Insight from SEC Form 4 filing data. Methodology
Total Transactions
259
Total Buy Value
$0
Total Sell Value
$3.56B
Net Activity
$-3.56B
Last Transaction
Aug 2026
Companies
6

Companies

Transaction History

Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 insider transaction filings.

FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
410
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
820
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
1,928
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
316
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
519
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Sale
Shares
5,000
Price
$118.57
Value
$593K
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Sale
Shares
20,000
Price
$54.52
Value
$1.09M
Type
Sale
Shares
10,000
Price
$91.85
Value
$919K
Type
Gift
Shares
7,665
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Gift
Shares
7,665
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Sale
Shares
10,000
Price
$51.79
Value
$518K
Type
Award
Shares
4,652
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
2,005
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
4,713
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Sale
Shares
10,000
Price
$56.79
Value
$568K
Type
Award
Shares
4,965
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
3,444
Price
-
Value
-
FLEX LTD.
FLEX
Type
Award
Shares
6,889
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
17,666
Price
-
Value
-
Type
Award
Shares
4,734
Price
$0.00
Value
$0