Ernest S Rady, Executive Chairman of American Assets Trust, Inc. ($AAT), reported an open-market purchase of 50,000 shares on August 14, 2026, at $22.79 per share. The transaction totaled $1,139,500. The Form 4 was filed the same day.
The August 14 trade was part of a broader series of August open-market purchases. On August 13, Rady reported buying 100,000 shares at $22.86 for $2,286,000. On August 11, he bought 100,000 shares at $22.52 for $2,252,000. On August 10, he bought 93,243 shares at $22.45 for $2,093,305. On August 7, he bought 32,763 shares at $22.82 for $747,652. On August 5, he bought 3,000 shares at $23.04 for $69,120. Across those six August transactions, Rady reported purchasing 379,006 shares for about $8.59 million.
The filing timeline was tight for most of the August trades. The August 14 and August 13 purchases were both reported on the August 14 Form 4. The August 10 and August 11 purchases were reported on August 12. The August 5 and August 7 purchases were reported on August 7, two days after the earlier of those two trades. After the August 14 purchase, Rady reported holding 8,802,531 $AAT shares.
Daily price records show $AAT shares closed at $22.96 on August 13. Rady's August 14 purchase was reported at $22.79 per share. He was the only $AAT insider with open-market transactions in the database during the August 1 through August 14 window. No other American Assets Trust insiders reported Form 4 trades during that stretch.
The August buying extended a longer 2026 record. Across May, Rady reported open-market purchases totaling 360,023 shares for about $7.62 million. The May sequence included 14,640 shares at $21.01 on May 12, 78,000 shares at $20.99 on May 13, 78,000 shares at $21.09 on May 14, 29,360 shares at $20.79 on May 15, 2,400 shares and 68,768 shares at $21.00 on May 18, 17,319 shares at $21.15 on May 19, 4,880 shares at $21.32 on May 20, 56,656 shares at $21.70 on May 21, and 10,000 shares at $22.67 on May 22. He also reported a 10,000-share purchase at $24.21 on June 15.
The record goes back at least to February. Rady reported purchases of 28,858 shares at $19.28 on February 24, 5,597 shares at $19.52 on February 25, and 5,151 shares at $20.06 on February 26. Those trades combined for 39,606 shares and about $769,000. The February filings were made on the trade date or the following day. American Assets Trust is listed in the real estate sector, with a market capitalization of about $1.39 billion in the database.
Congressional STOCK Act records for $AAT are limited. The database lists three $AAT entries. The most recent was a sale by Representative Daniel Goldman on April 10, 2023, disclosed on May 19, 2023, with a midpoint value of $1,001. Two earlier entries involved Senate members Thom Tillis in 2015 and Robert P Corker Jr in 2014.