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Aqua Metals, Inc.

AQMS Net selling
CIK 0001621832 #5259 in the set updated 22 Sep 2026
Bought (120 mo)
$1.62M
out of their own pocket, the only kind of buying there is
Sold (120 mo)
$11.13M
$0.00 on a plan · $2.37M straight out of an exercise
Sold at will
$8.75M
36 of 42 sales
Net
−$9.50M
−$7.13M against sales at will

By person

25 insiders · 103 transactions
0.2×

Stephen Cotton holds only 0.2 times base salary in stock. $124.33K of shares against $511.00K in salary for 2025.

Salary from the company's own proxy. The shares are what Stephen Cotton last reported holding, valued at $0.39, the price Common Stock was last bought or sold at on the open market here, on 14 May 2024.

Insider
Role
Bought
Sold
Net
Holding
Worth
Change
Interstate Batteries, Inc. entity
10% owner
$3.86M (9)
−$3.86M
473,827
$184.79K
−32.5%
Cotton Stephen
Chief Executive Officer
$289.83K (11)
$3.29M (14)
−$3.00M
318,784
$124.33K
Mould Selwyn
Chief Operating Officer
$1.05M (3)
−$1.05M
725,455
$282.93K
−7.6%
Murphy Thomas Michael
Chief Financial Officer
$1.04M (3)
−$1.04M
725,455
$282.93K
−7.6%
Yosufzai S. Shariq
Director
$50.69K (3)
$905.29K (2) scheduled
−$854.60K
54,107
$21.10K
−59.7%
Merrill Judd
Chief Financial Officer
$31.73K (9)
$877.47K (8)
−$845.75K
244,119
$95.21K
Kanen David
Director
$336.97K (6)
+$336.97K
275,404
$107.41K
Clarke Stephen R.
President & CEO
$200.00K (1)
+$200.00K
1,763,415
$687.73K
+1.3%
SMITH EDWARD J
Director
$173.30K (3)
+$173.30K
357,546
$139.44K
+1,602%
Zhang Peifang
Director
$149.47K (4)
+$149.47K
86,085
$33.57K
Slade Mark
Director
$105.00K (2)
+$105.00K
53,647
$20.92K
+168.2%
DIVITO VINCENT L
Director
$100.95K (10)
+$100.95K
26,402
$10.30K
Taecker Benjamin S.
Chief Eng and Opr Officer
$9.75K (1)
$102.40K (3)
−$92.65K
87,274
$34.04K
KAPOOR SUSHIL
Director
$52.35K (2)
+$52.35K
55,129
$21.50K
+930.3%
Gibson Gayle J
Director
$35.11K (2)
+$35.11K
32,546
$12.69K
YI SUNG
Director
$29.25K (1)
+$29.25K
105,500
$41.15K
+245.9%
Prouty Eric A
Director
$23.75K (2)
+$23.75K
25,622
$9.99K
Francis Knuettel II
Chief Financial Officer
$22.59K (2)
+$22.59K
162,500
$63.38K
+4.8%
McMurtry David
Chief Business Officer
$9.75K (1)
+$9.75K
686,277
$267.65K
Meline Susanne
Director
$3.10K (1)
+$3.10K
11,317
$4.41K
West Eric
Chief Financial Officer
100,476
$39.19K
+898.6%
Stevenson Mark Wayne
Director
31,129
$12.14K
+2,204%
Gangloff Eric John
Director
22,347
$8.72K
HENDERSON STEVEN K
Director
16,840
$6.57K
WEINSWIG MARK
Chief Financial Officer
2,219
$865.41

No percentages here. This company's share count has moved by a factor of 5.9 over the window, from 1,406,005 to 8,290,601 shares. A split, a merger or a large issue changes what the company is, and a holding measured at one point in that run is not a fraction of it at another.

Insider
Date
Role
Action
Shares
Price
Amount
Taecker Benjamin S.
8 Jul 2022
Chief Eng and Opr Officer
Sell
49,556
$0.77
$38.16K
Cotton Stephen
8 Jul 2022
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
283,758
$0.77
$218.49K
Taecker Benjamin S.
24 Mar 2022
Chief Eng and Opr Officer
Sell
13,431
$1.41
$18.94K
Cotton Stephen
24 Mar 2022
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
100,605
$1.41
$141.85K
Taecker Benjamin S.
5 Jan 2022
Chief Eng and Opr Officer
Sell
35,676
$1.27
$45.31K
Cotton Stephen
5 Jan 2022
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
124,474
$1.27
$158.08K
Cotton Stephen
2 Jul 2021
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
193,173
$2.71
$523.50K
Merrill Judd
2 Jul 2021
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
85,311
$2.71
$231.19K
Cotton Stephen
24 Mar 2021
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
87,660
$3.88
$340.12K
Merrill Judd
24 Mar 2021
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
17,393
$3.88
$67.48K
Cotton Stephen
4 Jan 2021
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
69,874
$3.36
$234.78K
Merrill Judd
4 Jan 2021
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
41,773
$3.36
$140.36K
Cotton Stephen
2 Jul 2020
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
169,606
$1.15
$195.05K
Merrill Judd
2 Jul 2020
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
61,445
$1.15
$70.66K
Cotton Stephen
23 Mar 2020
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
13,315
$0.39
$5.19K
Cotton Stephen
7 Jan 2020
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
4,918
$0.80
$3.93K
Merrill Judd
7 Jan 2020
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
619
$0.80
$495.20
Merrill Judd
3 Jan 2020
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
106,034
$0.71
$75.28K
Cotton Stephen
3 Jan 2020
Chief Executive Officer
Sell
197,090
$0.71
$139.93K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
9 May 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
32,500
$16.78
$545.19K
Murphy Thomas Michael
8 May 2017
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
20,000
$17.52
$350.37K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
8 May 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
40,283
$17.09
$688.62K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
4 May 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
4,500
$17.62
$79.28K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
3 May 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
48,327
$17.09
$826.05K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
2 May 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
42,500
$16.79
$713.51K
Mould Selwyn
1 May 2017
Chief Operating Officer
Sell
20,000
$16.53
$330.69K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
28 Apr 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
8,610
$16.67
$143.56K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
27 Apr 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
17,900
$16.95
$303.47K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
25 Apr 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
31,600
$16.63
$525.37K
Interstate Batteries, Inc.
24 Apr 2017
10% owner
Sell indirect
2,200
$16.48
$36.25K
Cotton Stephen
19 Apr 2017
Chief Commercial Officer
Sell
4,415
$17.26
$76.21K
Murphy Thomas Michael
10 Apr 2017
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
20,000
$17.25
$345.05K
Mould Selwyn
3 Apr 2017
Chief Operating Officer
Sell
20,000
$18.92
$378.36K
Cotton Stephen
22 Mar 2017
Chief Commercial Officer
Sell
4,415
$17.84
$78.76K
Murphy Thomas Michael
8 Mar 2017
Chief Financial Officer
Sell
20,000
$17.24
$344.77K
Mould Selwyn
7 Mar 2017
Chief Operating Officer
Sell
20,000
$17.03
$340.58K

What was left out

Form 4 filings counted 304
Amendments (4/A) skipped 7
Filings about a different issuer 0
Unreadable filings 0
Joint filings 1
Sales on a Rule 10b5-1 plan 0
Sales straight out of an exercise 6
Sales at will 36
Transactions with no price 0
Shares from compensation/vesting 14,671,247
Sales filed before the plan box existed 36
History held since 17 Nov 2016