Marcus Lemonis, chief executive officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. ($BBBY), reported an open-market purchase of 362,319 shares on October 6, 2026. The price was $2.76 per share. The total came to $1,000,000.44. The Form 4, filed the same day, listed Lemonis with 1,076,860 shares owned after the transaction.
The October purchase was Lemonis's second open-market buy reported in roughly two months. On August 5, 2026, he bought 43,382 shares at $4.67 per share for $202,593.94. The two 2026 purchases totaled $1,202,594.38. Both transactions were open-market purchases, not equity awards or option exercises. The August Form 4 was filed one day after the August 5 transaction.
Lemonis was not the only Bed Bath & Beyond insider to report a purchase in 2026. Director Joseph J Tabacco Jr. bought 20,000 shares on August 6, 2026, at $4.57 per share. That transaction totaled $91,400 and was filed on August 7, 2026. Tabacco also bought 20,000 shares on March 10, 2026, at $5.11 per share for $102,200. That filing came on March 12, 2026, two days after the trade. Tabacco's two 2026 purchases totaled $193,600.
The database contains five Bed Bath & Beyond insider transactions in total: four open-market purchases and one sale. Per-share prices across those five transactions ranged from $2.76 to $10.00. The sole sale predates the 2026 purchases. CFO Lee Adrianne sold 2,200 shares on July 21, 2025, at $10.00 per share for $22,000, filing on July 22, 2025.
Bed Bath & Beyond is classified in the Retail sector and carried a market capitalization of approximately $416.1 million. The ticker did not appear in a recent congressional STOCK Act disclosure. The most recent congressional entry for $BBBY was a sale dated February 27, 2020, by Representative Kevin Hern, with a disclosed amount of $1,001. Congressional dollar figures are midpoint estimates of bracketed ranges. That disclosure fell in the $1,001 to $1,001 range. That 2020 filing was the last of nine $BBBY entries in the congressional database. Earlier entries date back to 2014.
The five $BBBY insider filings show a 2026 sequence of open-market purchases by the chief executive officer and a board member. The most recent purchase was reported on October 6, 2026. No $BBBY insider purchase or sale appears in the database after that date.