David L. Finkelstein, Chief Executive Officer of Annaly Capital Management Inc ($NLY), sold 50,000 shares at $22.89 per share on August 3, 2026. The open-market transaction totaled $1,144,500 and was reported to the SEC in a Form 4 filing on August 4, just one day later. After the sale, Finkelstein held 761,012 shares directly.
The August 3 sale extended a steady pattern: five times in twelve months, Finkelstein had sold exactly 50,000 $NLY shares in open-market transactions. He previously sold on April 27, 2026, at $22.88 per share ($1,144,000); February 18, 2026, at $23.13 ($1,156,500); November 3, 2025, at $21.16 ($1,058,000); and August 4, 2025, at $20.79 ($1,039,500). The five sales together brought in approximately $5.54 million. Each Form 4 landed within one to three days of the trade date.
Finkelstein was not alone among Annaly executives in reducing holdings during 2026. Chief Financial Officer Serena Wolfe sold 33,073 shares across two transactions: 16,536 shares on February 18 for $382,643, and 16,537 shares on May 4 for $371,752. Chief Operating Officer Steven Francis Campbell sold 54,716 shares in February, splitting the sales between 28,225 shares on February 18 ($652,562) and 26,491 shares on February 25 ($604,790). No Annaly insider filed a Form 4 reporting an open-market purchase of $NLY stock in 2026.
In Congress, the most recent $NLY transaction was a $1,001 purchase by Senator John Kennedy (Republican, Louisiana) on April 21, 2025, disclosed on May 8, 2025. The only other sitting member of Congress to trade Annaly Capital Management stock after March 2023 was Representative Daniel Goldman (Democrat, New York), who disclosed two sales on March 1 and March 6, 2023, both filed with the House Clerk on April 17, 2023. The Congressional dollar figures are midpoint estimates derived from the bracketed ranges required under the STOCK Act. Earlier activity in $NLY included numerous transactions by former Representative Bob Gibbs (Republican, Ohio) between 2017 and 2020, and trades by Representative Ro Khanna (Democrat, California) in 2018 and 2020.
Annaly Capital Management, headquartered in New York, operates as a mortgage real estate investment trust. Finkelstein serves as the company's CEO and Chief Investment Officer.