Joel Bender sold 100,000 shares of Cactus, Inc. ($WHD) on October 1, 2026, at $61.973 per share. The transaction was worth $6,197,300. Bender, the company's president, disclosed the open-market sale in a Form 4 filed October 2, one day after the trade. The filing left him with 41,519 shares.
The October sale came after a similar move on August 3, 2026, when Bender sold 100,000 shares at $63.888 per share for $6,388,800. That form, submitted two days after the trade, also recorded same-day sales by two other Cactus insiders. Scott Bender, listed as chief executive officer, sold 100,000 shares at $63.888 per share for $6,388,800. Stephen Tadlock, also listed with a CEO role, sold 38,455 shares at $63.802 per share for $2,453,505.91. The combined total for the three sales on that form was $15,231,105.91. Scott Bender held 120,527 shares after his sale, and Tadlock held 43,178.
Bender reported three March sales earlier in 2026. He sold 63,963 shares at $50.74 on March 5, 29,228 shares at $50.01 on March 6, and 106,809 shares at $49.92 on March 10. Each of those March filings showed Scott Bender selling the same share counts on the same dates at matching prices. Joel Bender's three March transactions totaled $10,039,080.18. The March 5 and March 6 sales were filed on March 9 and March 11, respectively. The March 10 sale was filed on March 11.
Scott Bender's 2026 disclosures followed the same pattern. Across his three March sales and his August 3 sale of 100,000 shares at $63.888, his reported 2026 total was $16,427,880.18. He reported 120,527 shares after the August 3 sale.
Bender's post-sale holdings in the 2026 filings moved from 163,830 shares after the March 5 sale, to 134,602 after the March 6 sale, to 27,793 after the March 10 sale, and to 41,519 after each of the August 3 and October 1 sales.
Other Cactus insiders also sold during the year. In August, vice president William D Marsh sold 7,178 shares at $66.3151 for $476,009.79, and director John A Odonnell sold 10,000 shares at $66.1306 for $661,306; both were filed on August 6. In May, directors Michael Y McGovern and Alan Semple also sold shares. In September 2025, Marsh sold 10,172 shares at $41.32 for $420,307.04. The database held no congressional STOCK Act disclosures for $WHD.
Across the five sales Bender disclosed in 2026, the reported total was $22,625,180.18. Cactus, Inc., an energy-sector company with a market capitalization near $4.97 billion, trades under the ticker $WHD.