WTW Insider Trading

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Insurance - Brokers industry, with a market capitalization near $27.59B, listed on NASDAQ, employing roughly 48,100 people, carrying a beta of 0.42 to the broader market. Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) functions as a global provider of comprehensive consulting, brokerage, and solutions services. Led by Carl Aaron Hess, public since 2001-06-12.

In the last 12 months, Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company insiders made 4 buy transactions and 2 sale transactions.

DateNameTypeSharesPriceValue
Oct 13, 2026Banas Kristy DA-Award42.245$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Banas Kristy DA-Award2.154$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Faber AlexisA-Award46.49$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Faber AlexisA-Award4.822$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Furman MatthewA-Award50.089$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Furman MatthewA-Award7.092$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Gebauer Julie JareckeA-Award63.461$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Gebauer Julie JareckeA-Award13.341$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Hess Carl AaronA-Award80.854$0.00$0
Oct 13, 2026Hess Carl AaronA-Award17.009$0.00$0

WTW Insider Activity by Quarter

Reported Form 4 and Form 5 lines under WTW's own SEC company ID, by transaction date, back to Q4 2024. Purchases and sales are code P / S (open market or private) in the company's shares; other lines are purchases and sales of other securities (options, warrants, preferred), awards, exercises, tax withholding, gifts and other acquisitions and dispositions. Later filings and amendments can change the current quarter. Earlier quarters are not shown: the filings read reach back to Jul 19, 2023, and a quarter counts only when every filing for it was read.

QuarterPurchasesBoughtSalesSoldOther Lines
Q4 2026 (so far)0N/A0N/A18
Q3 20260N/A1$250.2K43
Q2 20262$1.0M0N/A82
Q1 20262$1.1M1$912.0K66
Q4 20250N/A0N/A62
Q3 20250N/A0N/A40
Q2 20250N/A7$3.7M113
Q1 20250N/A2$1.7M77
Q4 20240N/A0N/A84

WTW Institutional Ownership (13F)

As of Jun 30, 2026 (Q2 2026), 689 institutions reported holding 95,582,868 WTW shares, valued at $25.82B as reported, 102.2% of its market cap (market cap of Jun 26, 2026). That is -35 institutions from the quarter before. Among managers whose reports for both quarters are comparable, 60 opened a position, 84 closed one, 238 added and 278 trimmed.

Top Holders, Q2 2026

ManagerSharesValueChange
First Eagle Investment Management, LLC8,951,720$2.34B+4,612,359
BlackRock, Inc.8,314,002$2.17B+200,776
Dodge & Cox8,025,392$2.10B+692,978
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC6,174,220$1.61B+9,367
HARRIS ASSOCIATES L P5,908,033$1.54B-109,649
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership5,541,048$1.45B+1,754,431
MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/5,491,383$2.26B-376,150
STATE STREET CORP4,315,443$1.13B+98,608
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC4,064,712$1.06B+7,722
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC2,601,654$677.4M+11,682

By Quarter

QuarterInstitutionsSharesValue
Q2 202668995,582,868$25.82B
Q1 202672490,493,404$27.19B
Q4 202575196,682,823$31.77B
Q3 202572791,924,836$31.73B
Q2 202571894,520,175$28.61B
Q1 202574991,841,141$31.02B
Q4 202470094,296,713$29.53B
Q3 202466399,647,065$27.13B
Q2 202464495,081,918$24.93B

From the SEC's Form 13F data sets: investment managers with $100 million or more in Section 13(f) securities report their holdings each quarter, up to 45 days after it ends; a restated filing replaces the original, and values are as the managers reported them (a position whose price runs about 1,000 times below other managers', from a manager whose positions mostly do, is read as reported in thousands of dollars). The same shares can be reported by more than one manager, so totals can count some twice.

ETFs Holding WTW

FundWeight of WTWShares (as reported)Value (as reported)Source updated
VTI Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF0.04%3,004,243$1.02BOct 7, 2026
VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF0.05%2,509,836$849.7MOct 7, 2026
VO Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF0.31%2,042,962$691.6MOct 7, 2026
IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF0.04%1,235,804$359.2MOct 8, 2026
SPY State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF0.04%1,133,853$328.8MOct 8, 2026
VTV Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF0.12%902,600$305.6MOct 7, 2026
VOE Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF0.53%611,460$207.0MOct 7, 2026
XLF State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF0.36%612,624$181.6MOct 8, 2026
RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF0.19%622,690$181.0MOct 8, 2026
IWR iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF0.20%383,992$111.6MOct 8, 2026
USMV iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF0.34%272,211$79.1MOct 8, 2026
SPYM State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF0.04%247,088$71.8MOct 8, 2026
DFAC Dimensional - US Core Equity 2 ETF0.07%222,839$65.1MOct 8, 2026
IWD iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF0.07%206,537$60.0MOct 8, 2026
VFH Vanguard Financials ETF0.35%153,800$52.1MOct 7, 2026

From each fund's latest holdings file on record that shows WTW's listed security itself. A file counts when its line count is consistent with the fund's reported holdings count (at most twice it plus 10, or at most 1,000 lines for a reported count of exactly 10, which the data source gives many funds as a cap), read with that file or inherited from the fund's last classified file (within 20% of its line count, read within 60 days). Funds whose line for the company could not be confirmed as WTW's listed security, or that hold it through underlying funds (look-through), are not listed. Only long positions count: a fund is left out when any of its lines for WTW reports a negative weight, share count or value, or none of them above zero (a short position, or figures that disagree). Shares, value and weight are as reported in each fund's file, dated by the data source's last update of that file (not the date of the positions); the weight is WTW's share of that fund.

WTW Congress Trades

Members of Congress and their households disclosed 17 transactions in WTW on file (6 purchases, 11 sales) by 6 members, the latest trade on Jan 29, 2026. The newest 10 are below.

MemberChamberTypeAmountTradedDisclosed
Ro Khanna (D-CA-17)HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000Jan 29, 2026Feb 10, 2026
Val T. Hoyle (D-OR-4)HouseSale (Full)$1,001 - $15,000Sep 23, 2025Oct 10, 2025
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31)HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000Jun 26, 2025Jul 11, 2025
Julie Johnson (D-TX-32)HouseSale (Full)$1,001 - $15,000Apr 7, 2025May 15, 2025
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31)HousePurchase$1,001 - $15,000Apr 7, 2025May 7, 2025
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31)HousePurchase$1,001 - $15,000Feb 24, 2025Mar 7, 2025
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31)HousePurchase$1,001 - $15,000Jan 28, 2025Feb 12, 2025
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31)HousePurchase$15,001 - $50,000Jan 13, 2025Feb 12, 2025
Val T. Hoyle (D-OR-4)HousePurchase$1,001 - $15,000Oct 29, 2024Sep 12, 2025
Ro Khanna (D-CA-17)HouseSale$1,001 - $15,000Jan 10, 2024Feb 5, 2024

From the periodic transaction reports members of the Senate and the House file under the STOCK Act, within 45 days of a trade (some file later); amounts are the ranges the reports give (a few give an exact amount), and a transaction a later report lists again is counted once. On file: House reports disclosed from Apr 10, 2023 through Oct 13, 2026; Senate reports disclosed from Jan 30, 2014 through Oct 7, 2026. The party is the member's on the trade date. A trade is listed under the company that traded under its ticker on the trade date (dated from Feb 1, 2021, unless the filing describes another company of ours; before that, only when the filing's description of the security is the company's name).

How to Read WTW Insider Activity

Net insider sentiment is bullish over the trailing twelve months: 4 buy transactions versus 2 sales. Cluster buying by officers or directors is one of the cleaner insider signals because purchases require personal capital deployment and carry direct SEC scrutiny for material non-public information violations. The transaction table above includes the filer's reporting name, transaction type, share count, per-share price, and total dollar value where computable. For options traders, insider activity is one input to event-driven sizing alongside earnings calendar, analyst-rating cluster moves, and the implied-vol surface. Form 4 filings (the dominant Section 16 reporting form) must be submitted within two business days of the transaction; clusters of buys across multiple insiders within a short window are the strongest informational pattern. SEC EDGAR carries the underlying source filings for verification and additional historical depth.

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Frequently asked WTW insider trading questions

How active are WTW insiders right now?
Over the trailing twelve months, Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) insiders made 4 buy transactions and 2 sale transactions. Net insider sentiment over the trailing twelve months tilts to the buy side (4 buys vs 2 sales). The transaction list above shows the most recent filings; each entry includes the insider's name, transaction type, share count, and per-share price.
What counts as an insider transaction?
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act requires officers, directors, and 10% beneficial-owner shareholders to disclose changes in their holdings via Form 3 (initial statement), Form 4 (subsequent transactions, filed within two business days), and Form 5 (annual catch-up). Insider transactions cover open-market purchases and sales, exercise of stock options, gifts, and grants. The "transaction type" field on each row distinguishes these subcategories.
Are WTW insider buys a bullish signal?
Insider purchases (Type P, made on the open market or privately; the code covers both) carry more informational weight than insider sales: an insider must commit personal capital, and the SEC scrutinizes purchases under Rule 10b5-1 for material non-public information. Sales, by contrast, are often driven by liquidity, tax planning, or pre-scheduled 10b5-1 trading plans rather than negative information. Cluster buying (multiple insiders buying within a short window) is a stronger signal than isolated buys.
How do WTW insider transactions affect options pricing?
Insider transaction data does not directly drive implied volatility, but Form 4 disclosures can move single-name IV if the size or timing is unusual (e.g. a large CEO buy ahead of an earnings window). Options markets price the marginal informational content; routine transactions under pre-scheduled plans are typically ignored. For event-driven options sizing, pair the insider transaction history with the upcoming earnings calendar.