R. Hewitt Pate, chief legal officer of Chevron Corp. ($CVX), sold 40,700 shares of $CVX common stock on October 20, 2026, at $226.653 per share, for a total of $9,224,777.10. The Form 4 filing was dated October 21, 2026, one day after the trade, and listed 8,791 shares owned after the transaction. The transaction was reported as an open-market sale.
Pate's October 20 sale followed a smaller $CVX sale the previous day: 2,400 shares at $225.6108 each, totaling $541,465.92, also filed on October 21. Earlier in 2026, Pate reported a series of $CVX sales. On August 18, he sold 2,470 shares for $506,618.74. On March 30, he sold 40,200 shares for $8,574,856.98. On March 6, he sold 47,200 shares for $9,068,064.00. On March 2, he reported three sales totaling 58,000 shares for $10,941,853.69, and on February 27 he reported four sales totaling 35,475 shares for $6,600,563.92. A January 30 sale of 41,134 shares totaled $7,256,037.60 and was filed February 3, four days after the trade.
Other Chevron insiders also filed $CVX sales in the same January 30 through October 20, 2026 window. Excluding Pate, the database showed 37 $CVX sales from eight other insiders, with a combined reported value of $220,995,433.13. John B Hess reported 10 sales with a combined value of $109,446,288.92; Michael K Wirth reported five sales with a combined value of $51,622,487.45; Mark A Nelson reported four sales with a combined value of $34,210,618.86; and Eimear P Bonner reported six sales with a combined value of $14,218,245.87. Andrew Benjamin Walz, Thomas Ryder Booth, Jeff B Gustavson, and Alana K Knowles also filed $CVX sales in the window.
On the congressional side, Representative David J. Taylor disclosed a $CVX purchase on June 15, 2026, and $CVX sales on March 12, March 11, and February 26. Representative Gilbert Cisneros disclosed a $CVX purchase on February 10, 2026, and two $CVX sales on January 9. The disclosed midpoints for those congressional $CVX transactions ranged from $1,001 to $15,001; congressional dollar amounts are midpoint estimates of the disclosed ranges.
Filing dates varied across the series. The October 20 and October 19 sales were both filed on October 21; the August 18 sale was filed August 20; and the March 30 sale was filed April 1. The February 27 and March 2 sales were filed March 3, and the March 6 sale was filed March 10.
Across the 13 $CVX sales Pate reported in 2026, the combined reported value was $52,714,237.95 for 267,579 shares. His reported shares owned after the trades moved from 4,169 after the January 30 sale to 8,558 after the March 6 sale and 8,791 after the October 20 sale.