Pinterest, Inc. ($PINS) Chief Financial Officer Julia Donnelly Brau reported an open-market sale of 59,096 shares on August 7, 2026, according to a Form 4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission the same day. The transaction was valued at $1,387,716, with shares sold at an average price of $23.48 each. After the sale, Brau held 817,409 shares of Pinterest common stock.
The August 2026 sale was Brau's first reported transaction in more than seven months. Her most recent prior sale occurred on December 24, 2025, when she sold 22,821 shares at $25.86 per share, generating $590,099. Before that, she executed sales in September 2025 (22,821 shares at $34.85, totaling $795,401) and June 2025 (29,606 shares at $34.25, totaling $1,014,000). Each of those three earlier transactions was also an open-market sale, and all were reported within days of execution. Across the four open-market sales disclosed to date, Brau has sold a total of 134,344 shares for aggregate proceeds of approximately $3.79 million.
Brau was not the only Pinterest insider active in the market during the summer of 2026. Director Ben Silbermann, a co-founder of the company, executed a series of nine open-market sales between June 16 and July 22, 2026. Those transactions ranged from 20,341 shares to 46,875 shares per trade and collectively represented the sale of 375,000 shares for aggregate proceeds of roughly $8.07 million. Silbermann's sales followed a pattern of frequent, similarly sized dispositions spanning multiple weeks.
On the congressional side, several members of the U.S. House of Representatives disclosed $PINS transactions earlier in 2026. Representative Christian D. Menefee (Democrat) reported two sales: one on February 17, 2026, with a midpoint value of $1,001, and a second on May 28, 2026, at a midpoint of $15,001. Representative Ro Khanna (Democrat) disclosed a series of purchases between November 2025 and February 2026, each at the $1,001 midpoint. Representative Michael T. McCaul (Republican) reported a sale on January 29, 2026, at a midpoint of $15,001. Representative Julia Letlow (Republican) disclosed a sale in December 2025 at the $1,001 midpoint. Congressional disclosure amounts are midpoint estimates of bracketed ranges required under the STOCK Act.
Pinterest shares traded at $23.48 at the time of Brau's August 2026 sale, below the price levels obtained in her 2025 transactions. Brau has served as Pinterest's CFO since 2023.