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SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC

SAH Net buying

CIK 0001043509 #1888 in the set updated 17 Sep 2026

Bought (120 mo)

$14.45M

out of their own pocket, the only kind of buying there is

Sold (120 mo)

$80.50M

$16.34M on a plan · $51.21M straight out of an exercise

Sold at will

$12.94M

24 of 67 sales

Net

−$66.05M

+$1.50M against sales at will

By person

15 insiders · 85 transactions

Insider

Role

Bought

Sold

Net

Holding

Worth

Change

DYKE JEFF

President

—

$37.39M (25) scheduled

−$37.39M

916,245

$78.08M

−36.9%

SMITH DAVID BRUTON

Chairman and CEO

—

$25.75M (14) scheduled

−$25.75M

601,686

$51.28M

+175.3%

Byrd Heath

EVP and CFO

—

$16.91M (25) scheduled

−$16.91M

157,603

$13.43M

+49.3%

Rusnak Paul P.

10% owner

$11.49M (8)

—

+$11.49M

11,343,436

$966.70M

+2.6%

SMITH O BRUTON

Executive Chairman

$2.69M (4)

—

+$2.69M

973,670

$82.98M

+114.5%

DOOLAN VICTOR H

Director

—

$454.08K (3)

−$454.08K

58,833

$5.01M

+33.0%

SMITH MARCUS G

Director

$162.35K (4)

—

+$162.35K

104,494

$8.91M

+433.9%

TAYLOR R EUGENE

Director

$102.57K (1)

—

+$102.57K

63,926

$5.45M

+782.7%

SMITH BRYAN SCOTT

Director

—

471,516

$40.18M

+20.7%

BROOKS WILLIAM R

Director

—

117,898

$10.05M

+79.0%

BELK WILLIAM I

Director

—

113,168

$9.64M

+84.1%

HELLER H ROBERT

Director

—

95,578

$8.15M

+55.5%

Harris John W. III

Director

—

52,081

$4.44M

+403.3%

Kaiser Keri A

Director

—

25,470

$2.17M

—

Hodge Michael Edward

Director

—

21,415

$1.83M

—

No percentages here. These insiders hold more than one class of share between them, and the share count on file covers one of them rather than all. Dividing the two would compare different things.

Individual transactions

Insider

Date

Role

Action

Price

Amount

SMITH O BRUTON

15 Mar 2018

Executive Chairman

Exercised, kept

183,333

$1.81

$331.83K

Show all 85 transactions →

What was left out

Form 4 filings counted 281

Amendments (4/A) skipped 5

Filings about a different issuer 0

Unreadable filings 0

Joint filings 0

Sales on a Rule 10b5-1 plan 13

Sales straight out of an exercise 30

Sales at will 24

Transactions with no price 0

Shares from compensation/vesting 6,045,738

Sales filed before the plan box existed 24

History held since 5 Dec 2016