CEO Joseph Y. Bae buys $4.4 million of KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR)
Joseph Y. Bae, chief executive, bought $4.4 million of stock after a 27.4% fall. WallStPal Score 64.
Joseph Y. Bae, chief executive of KKR & Co. Inc., bought 50,000 shares on the open market on February 27, 2026 at an average of $88.56 a share, for a total of $4.4 million. The purchase was reported to the SEC on Form 4 on March 3, 2026.
It raised their holding by 9.8%, to 559,257 shares.
The purchase came after a fall: KKR & Co. Inc. stock was down 27.4% over the 13 weeks before.
4 other insiders also bought at least $10,000 of KKR within 30 days, which makes this a cluster buy.
Joseph Y. Bae last bought KKR on February 17, 2026.
In the 12 months up to this filing, KKR & Co. Inc. insiders reported 6 open-market purchases and 0 sales.
WallStPal Score: 64 out of 100, because of a large purchase; 4 other insiders also bought; the stock had fallen 27.4% in the 13 weeks before; bought by a top executive.
What happened next: after 1 month the stock was up 1.6% (7.5 points better than the S&P 500); after 6 months the stock was up 22.5% (11.4 points better than the S&P 500). Based on weekly prices from the week of the purchase.
Our read
It is one of 6 insider purchases at KKR in the past year, made after a 27.4% fall in 13 weeks, a setup where insider buying has historically mattered most. A single purchase is a data point, not a forecast: insiders can be early, and sometimes simply wrong.
Source: SEC Form 4 filing ↗. This story was written automatically from the filing and weekly price data. Information, not investment advice.
Examples
Big insider purchases have made news before. In January 2016, with bank stocks falling, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon bought 500,000 JPMorgan shares, about $26 million of his own money, and the purchase was widely reported as a sign of confidence.
Explain it like I'm 13
Joseph Y. Bae helps run KKR & Co. Inc.. Spending $4.4 million of their own money on the company's stock is like a coach buying a big stack of tickets to their own team's games: it suggests they think the team will do well. It is not a promise, and insiders can be wrong.
Sources
- Form 4: Joseph Y. Bae, purchase of KKR · filed 2026-03-03
- Form 4: Scott C. Nuttall, purchase · filed 2026-03-03
- Form 4: Mary N. Dillon, purchase · filed 2026-03-03
- Form 4: Scott C. Nuttall, purchase · filed 2026-02-18
- Form 4: Joseph Y. Bae, purchase · filed 2026-02-18
The purchase filing and the other most recent Form 4 filings for the same company.