The system is currently running to update all of the 2020 SECTION-16-SUMMARY data with the ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME field. The process started about 1:00 PM on 1/8/2022 – I estimate that it will be complete by 4:00 PM (ish).

I did make a dreadful mistake during this update. I pulled the 2020 offline while I was preparing the code. I received an email and while I was able to address the requirements for that user I realized it was not necessary to pull everything offline. I will not make that mistake again. We are now working on the prior years. Thank you for your patience – this should have been addressed when we first handled these files.

When I posted that the 2021 data was available I noted that my sense was that there were more insider transactions in 2021 than in 2020. This was confirmed as in 2021 there were 875,357 total processed rows in 2021 pulled from 224,474 unique filings. In 2020 there were only 717,239 rows pulled from 203,566 filings. I think we expected this because we saw many more new directors in 2021 than we have seen in some while.

We are still heavily involved in some of the transition stuff and so it may take a while, however, we will generate the DIRECTOR-RELATIONSHIP artifact for 2021 soon. That will be interesting as my sense during the year was that more of the newest directors are female. Once that artifact is created it will be easier to confirm that observation.

I would like to observe that you can map the trading data to the Director/Executive compensation data by the PERSON-CIK value. In those tables we have GENDER. We have AGE and TENURE fields in the Director data.