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Capital Bancorp Inc [CBNK]

Reporting date: 10/09/2025

⚠️ Bullish Insider Buy Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: MCCONNELL MARC H
  • Role: Director
  • Company: Capital Bancorp Inc (CBNK)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-10-09
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 1,615
    • Average Sale Price: $14.82, $19.18 (weighted avg $18.31)
    • Total Value: 1,615 * $18.31 ≈ ~$29,567
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 13,434
    • Indirect Holdings: 206,208
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

MCCONNELL MARC H, Director at Capital Bancorp Inc (CBNK), bought 1,615 shares on October 09, 2025, at an average price of $18.31, for a total cost of about ~$29,567. After the transaction, he now holds 13,434 direct shares and 206,208 indirect shares. For retail traders, this is a bullish event: insider acquired shares in a merger-related exchange, signaling modest confidence.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Comp-related (merger/exchange activity; transaction code M and footnotes indicate merger/exchange of options)
  • Disposition: Shares were acquired (not sold) — acquired and added to direct holdings.
  • Size Context: The net acquisition of 1,615 shares is modest — roughly a ~12% increase relative to the 13,434 direct shares and immaterial relative to total indirect holdings (~206k). This looks like issuance/exchange activity rather than discretionary profit-taking.
  • ATH Metric: Based on the transaction prices ($14.82–$19.18) and a recent reference/average near $18.31, the trade does not appear to be timed at an obvious all-time high or low. There is no clear opportunistic timing relative to ATH/ATL from this filing alone.
  • Outlier Check: Not unusually large for this reporting owner given his substantial indirect holdings; no evidence in this filing of an outsized, atypical liquidation or acquisition compared with his overall position.

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Bullish

Bullish. The filing shows net acquisitions (code M, merger/exchange-related) and additions to direct holdings rather than sales; the activity appears transaction-driven (merger/exchange of options) rather than discretionary profit-taking. Data in this single Form 4 are complete for the reported events but do not reveal broader cluster activity.

✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

This transaction looks like merger-related acquisition of shares rather than routine profit-taking. For retail traders, it’s largely noise — not a standalone trade signal unless corroborated by multiple insiders or executive-level sell/buy patterns.