Director Erik D. Ragatz buys $882,500 of Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (GO)

Erik D. Ragatz, director of Grocery Outlet Holding Corp., bought 125,000 shares on the open market on March 27, 2026 at an average of $7.06 a share, for a total of $882,500. The purchase was reported to the SEC on Form 4 on March 30, 2026.

It raised their holding by 24%, to 651,500 shares.

The purchase came after a fall: Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. stock was down 42.1% over the 13 weeks before.

1 other insider also bought at least $10,000 of GO within 30 days, which makes this a cluster buy.

Erik D. Ragatz last bought GO on March 19, 2026.

In the 12 months up to this filing, Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. insiders reported 8 open-market purchases and 3 sales.

WallStPal Score: 60 out of 100, because of raised their holding by 24%; a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; the stock had fallen 42.1% in the 13 weeks before.

What happened next: after 1 month the stock was up 10.6% (1.1 points better than the S&P 500); after 3 months the stock was up 31.2% (16.1 points better than the S&P 500); after 6 months the stock was up 59.6% (42.2 points better than the S&P 500). Based on weekly prices from the week of the purchase.

Our read

It is one of 8 insider purchases at GO in the past year, made after a 42.1% 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

Erik D. Ragatz helps run Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.. Spending $882,500 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.

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