Kevin J McNamara, chief executive officer of Chemed Corp ($CHE), sold 2,000 shares of company stock in an open-market transaction on August 3, 2026, at a price of $539.51 per share. The sale had a total dollar value of $1,079,020. McNamara filed the corresponding Form 4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 4, one day after the trade. Following the transaction, his reported holdings stood at 70,418 shares.
The August sale marked the seventh open-market disposition by McNamara in a span of roughly twelve months. Since August 5, 2025, he has executed seven sales of $CHE stock, producing aggregate proceeds of $6,397,735. The per-share prices realized across those transactions ranged from $369.37 — recorded in a March 27, 2026, sale of 1,500 shares — to $539.51 in the most recent trade. McNamara's disclosed ownership declined from 99,197 shares after the August 2025 sale to 70,418 shares following the August 2026 transaction, a reduction of approximately 29 percent. Individual sales during the period ranged from 1,500 to 3,000 shares.
Other Chemed insiders also reduced their positions over the past year. President Westfall Nicholas Michael executed the largest single insider trade on the stock in the period examined, selling 10,012 shares on August 4, 2025, for $4,224,162.92. Director Andrea R Lindell sold 1,347 shares on June 9, 2026, realizing $602,553.51. Director Patrick P Grace carried out three smaller open-market sales between September 2025 and July 2026 that together totaled $196,135.30 — a 190-share transaction on July 31, 2026, at $532 per share; a 60-share sale on May 8, 2026, at $425.78; and a 150-share sale on September 9, 2025, at $463.39. The sole open-market insider purchase recorded on $CHE during the same window was a 200-share acquisition by director George J Walsh III on August 4, 2025, at a cost of $83,420.
Representative Lisa Mcclain, a Republican, disclosed a purchase of $CHE shares on June 24, 2025, with a reported value of exactly $1,001. The congressional disclosure was filed on August 13, 2025, fifty days after the trade date. The transaction was the most recent congressional trade in $CHE stock, according to STOCK Act filings.
Chemed shares closed at $540.57 on August 3, 2026. The stock had traded as low as $479.76 on July 8 and closed at $480.87 on July 1, before advancing through the latter half of the month to reach levels above $530 by the final trading days of July.