Ugur Sahin, chief executive officer of BioNTech SE ($BNTX), sold 39,000 shares on September 24, 2026. The open-market transaction was valued at $3,860,660.70, with shares sold at $98.99 each. The Form 4 covering the sale was filed the same day. Sahin reported holding 341,209 shares after the sale. BioNTech, a biotechnology company, had a market capitalization of about $25.3 billion.
BioNTech shares closed at $98.46 on September 23, the session before the sale. They traded between $98.31 and $101.31 that day. The stock had closed at $96.69 on September 15, $95.83 on September 16, $98.66 on September 17, $96.06 on September 18, $98.00 on September 21, and $100.87 on September 22. The September 24 sale price of $98.99 per share was above the September 23 close of $98.46.
The disposal was the sixth open-market sale by Sahin during September 2026. The six transactions totaled 182,000 shares and $17,803,788.60. The earlier September sales included 34,000 shares on September 15 at $96.49, 15,000 shares on September 16 at $96.09, 34,000 shares on September 17 at $98.60, 30,000 shares on September 18 at $96.22, and 30,000 shares on September 23 at $99.40. The September 15 and 16 sales were filed on September 16; the September 17 and 18 sales were filed on September 18; and the September 23 and 24 sales were filed together on September 24.
Sahin was not the only BioNTech executive to file a Form 4 sale in 2026. Chief operating officer Sierk Poetting sold 50,000 shares on April 22 at $110.56 per share, a transaction totaling $5,527,960. The April 23 filing left 399,387 shares reported after the sale. That sale was also reported as an open-market transaction.
Congressional STOCK Act disclosures on file for $BNTX showed no 2026 activity. The most recent entry was a sale by Representative Valerie Hoyle, a Democrat, recorded with an August 7, 2025 trade date and disclosed on September 12, 2025. Representative Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat, filed several earlier $BNTX transactions: purchases on December 5, 6, and 7, 2023; a sale on March 14, 2024; a purchase on April 15, 2024; and sales on August 30 and September 3, 2024. Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat, also filed a sale recorded with a January 20, 2022 trade date. Congressional dollar figures are midpoint estimates of disclosed bracketed ranges.
After the September 24 sale, Sahin's reported position stood at 341,209 shares. Per-share prices across the September series ranged from $96.09 to $99.40, and each of the six sales was listed in SEC filings as an open-market transaction. The filing-lag pattern across the series ranged from zero to one day, with the final two sales reported together on the trade date.