Tesla (TSLA) insider trading and SEC filings
Tesla, Inc. · Nasdaq · Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies
Company facts
What Tesla tells the SEC about itself on the same registration record these filings come from.
- Industry (SIC) — Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies
- Exchange — Nasdaq
- Filer category — Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal year end — December 31
- State of incorporation — Texas
- Former names — TESLA MOTORS INC (2005-2017)
TSLA insider transactions
Officers, directors and 10% owners must tell the SEC when they buy or sell Tesla stock, within two business days. These are the most recent, straight from EDGAR.
I read the 8 insider filings below, filed between Apr 1 and Sep 9, 2026, all on Form 4. Each one is about Tesla stock and links to the original on EDGAR. They name 4 insiders: 1 director and 3 officers. Of the filings, 5 report an open-market sale, 7 an option exercise, and 1 shares withheld for tax (some filings report more than one type). In 3 of the 5 filings reporting a sale, the same person also reports an option exercise on the same trade date. Tesla's SEC record shows its latest 10-K filed Jan 29, 2026, its latest 10-Q Jul 23, 2026, and its latest 8-K Oct 2, 2026.
| Form | Filed | Insider | Transaction | Price | Trade date | Shares held after | Ownership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2026-09-09 | Vaibhav Taneja — Chief Financial Officer | Option exercise · 6,539 shares | — | Sep 5, 2026 | 28,578 | Direct | Filing |
| Open-market sale · 2,605 shares | $360.134 | Sep 8, 2026 | 25,972 | Direct | ||||
| 4 | 2026-06-17 | Elon Musk — CEO | Option exercise · 303,960,630 shares | $23.34 | Jun 16, 2026 | 727,704,534 | Direct | Filing |
| Shares withheld for tax or exercise cost · 17,531,857 shares | $404.66 | Jun 16, 2026 | 710,172,677 | Direct | ||||
| 4 | 2026-06-09 | Vaibhav Taneja — Chief Financial Officer | Option exercise · 6,538 shares | — | Jun 5, 2026 | 24,644 | Direct | Filing |
| Open-market sale · 2,605 shares | $402.197 | Jun 8, 2026 | 22,039 | Direct | ||||
| 4 | 2026-05-15 | Vaibhav Taneja — Chief Financial Officer | Option exercise · 3,000 shares across 2 transactions | $18.22-$18.44 | May 13, 2026 | 21,106 | Direct | Filing |
| Open-market sale · 3,000 shares | $450.00 | May 13, 2026 | 18,106 | Direct | ||||
| 4 | 2026-05-04 | Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — Director | Option exercise · 40,948 shares | $14.99 | Apr 30, 2026 | 74,808 | Direct | Filing |
| Open-market sale · 26,409 shares across 16 transactions | $369.01-$384.284 | Apr 30, 2026 | 48,399 | Direct | ||||
| 4 | 2026-04-23 | Elon Musk — CEO | Disposition to the issuer · 96,000,000 shares | $0.00 | Apr 21, 2026 | 423,743,904 | Direct | Filing |
| 4 | 2026-04-02 | Xiaotong Zhu — SVP | Option exercise · 20,000 shares | $20.57 | Mar 31, 2026 | 20,000 | Direct | Filing |
| 4 | 2026-04-01 | Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — Director | Option exercise · 40,000 shares | $14.99 | Mar 30, 2026 | 59,669 | Direct | Filing |
| Open-market sale · 25,809 shares across 15 transactions | $352.833-$366.855 | Mar 30, 2026 | 33,860 | Direct |
Transaction wording follows the code on the filing itself — what each Form 4 code means. An option exercise or a tax withholding is not a market decision, and is not shown as one.
- Form 4 — An insider bought or sold company stock
Get TSLA's filings, read.
Other recent Tesla filings
| Form | Filed | Document |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | 2026-10-02 | 8-K |
| 8-K | 2026-09-29 | 8-K |
| 10-Q | 2026-07-23 | 10-Q |
| 8-K | 2026-07-22 | 8-K |
| 8-K | 2026-07-02 | 8-K |
| 10-Q | 2026-04-23 | 10-Q |
| 8-K | 2026-04-22 | 8-K |
| 10-K | 2026-01-29 | 10-K |
Reading these accurately
A Form 4 records what happened, precisely and on the record — it has no field for why. A sale can be scheduled months in advance under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, and vesting and option exercises appear alongside open-market decisions. The fuller version is in what insider buying and selling actually signals; to look up any other company, use the insider filing tracker.
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