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Stephen Cotton is Chief Executive Officer at AQMS. Stephen Cotton's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $408K at current prices.
Historically, Stephen Cotton's trades have earned a middling insider score of 69/100 across 8 rated trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 75.0% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of +22.9%.
The AQMS filings lean toward selling, a net 1,115,674 shares.
Stephen Cotton has 60 Form 4 filings on record from August 2015 to October 2026, all as Chief Executive Officer at Aqua Metals (AQMS), 2015–2026.
The 89 reported transactions were 17 stock awards, 17 tax withholdings, 15 open-market purchases and 14 open-market sales, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 12 purchases worth about $314K and 13 sales worth about $3.3M.
The largest open-market purchase was 250,000 shares of AQMS at an average $0.39 on May 14, 2024, about $98K. Twelve months later AQMS was down 90%.
The largest open-market sale was 232,461 shares of AQMS at an average $5.05 on March 2, 2021, about $1.2M. Twelve months later AQMS was down 77%.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| May 14, 2024 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Buy | 250,000 | $0.39 | $97,500.00 | +4.1% | -56.7% | -89.8% | |
| Jul 8, 2022 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 283,758 | $0.77 | $218,493.66 | -7.0% | +5.4% | +52.3% | |
| Mar 24, 2022 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 100,605 | $1.41 | $141,853.05 | -2.4% | -35.9% | -29.4% | |
| Jan 5, 2022 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 124,474 | $1.27 | $158,081.98 | -2.9% | +24.4% | -8.1% | |
| Jul 2, 2021 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 193,173 | $2.71 | $523,498.83 | -11.5% | -23.0% | -69.3% | |
| Mar 24, 2021 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 87,660 | $3.88 | $340,120.80 | -6.7% | -14.5% | -61.6% | |
| Mar 2, 2021 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sale+OE | 232,461 | $5.05 | $1,172,804.22 | -17.5% | -32.2% | -77.5% | |
| Jan 4, 2021 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 69,874 | $3.36 | $234,776.64 | -6.0% | - | - | |
| Aug 7, 2020 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Buy | 721 | $1.04 | $749.84 | - | - | - | |
| Jul 24, 2020 | AQMS Aqua Metals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Buy | 670 | $1.12 | $750.40 | - | - | - |