AppTech Payments Corp. ($APCX) director Albert L Lord acquired 20,000 shares on the open market on August 3, 2026, paying $2,900 per share for a total outlay of $58 million. He filed the required Form 4 with the SEC the following day, August 4. After the trade, Lord owned 1,040,000 shares.
The August 3 purchase came just one trading day after Lord bought another 20,000 $APCX shares at $2,895 apiece on July 31. That transaction was worth $57.9 million and appeared on the same August 4 filing. Combined, the two trades sum to roughly $115.9 million across two sessions.
Lord has been a steady buyer of $APCX since late 2025. Between October 31, 2025 and June 4, 2026, he reported 16 open-market purchases at prices that ranged from about $0.31 to $1.00 per share. His total pre-July 2026 spending on the stock approached $1.27 million. The largest single-day acquisition in that window was on October 31, 2025, when he bought 1,000,000 shares at $1.00 each.
The share counts and per-share prices in the July 31 and August 3 filings looked dramatically different from those in June. On June 2, 3, and 4, Lord purchased 70,000 shares each day at $0.3905, $0.4792, and $0.4906, respectively. After the June 4 trade, he held 3,510,000 shares. By July 31, his reported position had dropped to 1,000,000 shares, and the per-share price had jumped to $2,895. No Form 4 filings between June 4 and July 31 record any other trades by Lord, so the shift in both share count and price appears consistent with a corporate action, such as a reverse stock split, during that period.
Only one other insider reported an open-market $APCX transaction in 2026: Thomas Joseph Derosa bought 20,000 shares at $0.3377 on February 26 and 10,000 shares at $0.3299 on March 4. No insider sales were disclosed that year.
Congressional records show Representative Michael T. McCaul made a series of $APCX purchases and sales between 2014 and 2017. The last congressional transaction in the stock was McCaul's February 2017 purchase, with an estimated midpoint value of $50,001.
AppTech Payments operates in the financial services sector. Its most recently reported market capitalization stood near $11.3 million. Lord's Form 4 filings from 2025 and 2026 consist solely of open-market purchases.