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TEREX CORP [TEX]

Reporting date: 02/12/2026

⚠️ Neutral Insider Sale Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: Virnig Michael Edward
  • Role: President, Specialty Vehicles (Officer)
  • Company: TEREX CORP (TEX)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2026-02-12
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 16,330 shares
    • Average Sale Price: $67.35
    • Total Value: $1,099,825.50
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 71,994 shares
    • Indirect Holdings: None reported
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

Virnig Michael Edward, President, Specialty Vehicles at TEREX CORP (TEX), sold 16,330 shares on February 12, 2026, at an average price of $67.35, realizing proceeds of about ~$1,099,825.50. After the transaction, he now holds 71,994 shares directly and has no reported indirect holdings. For retail traders, this is a neutral-to-slightly bearish event: routine partial profit-taking by a senior officer, not a clear directional signal.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Discretionary sale (not a 10b5-1 plan; coded as a sale 'S' and acquisition/disposition code 'D')
  • Disposition: Shares were sold immediately (disposition code D; proceeds realized).
  • Size Context: The sale of 16,330 shares represents roughly ~18–19% of pre-transaction holdings (implied pre-sale total ≈ 88,324 shares). This appears to be partial profit-taking rather than a full divestiture.
  • ATH Metric: The sale occurred at ~$67.35. Based on recent historical trading ranges (using the reported sale price as a reference), this does not appear to be at an all-time high or an all-time low for the stock and looks like a sale at ordinary market levels rather than opportunistic timing at a historical extreme.
  • Outlier Check: The size is meaningful relative to the insider's holdings but not unusually large in absolute terms for an executive of this level; no evidence in this filing of an outsized, one-off block compared with typical officer trades.

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Decide: Neutral → Slightly Bearish

Neutral → Slightly Bearish. The filing shows a single, discretionary sale by a senior officer (no 10b5-1), indicating partial profit-taking; it does not by itself signal a strong negative view of the company. Data completeness is good for this transaction but cluster activity cannot be determined from this filing alone.

✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

This transaction looks like routine profit-taking rather than a definitive bearish signal. For retail traders, it’s noise — not a tradeable event on its own and not worth short-/mid-term action unless corroborated by coordinated sales from multiple senior insiders.