Acacia Research Corporation (ACTG)
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About Acacia Research Corporation
Acacia Research Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, invests in intellectual property and related absolute return assets; and engages in the licensing and enforcement of patented technologies. The company operates through two segments, Intellectual Property Operations and Industrial Operations. The company owns or controls the rights to various patent portfolios, which include U.S. patents and foreign counterparts covering technologies used in a range of industries. It has executed approximately 1,600 license agreements, and approximately 200 patent portfolio licensing and enforcement programs. It also designs manufactures printers and parts, and consumable products through dealers and distributors for various industrial printing applications. In addition, the company offers supply-chain printing solutions for manufacturing, transportation and logistics, retail distribution, food and beverage distribution, and pharmaceutical distribution industries; and line matrix printers for mission critical applications within labeling and inventory management, build sheets, invoicing, manifests and bills of lading, and reporting industries. Acacia Research Corporation was incorporated in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.
Insider Activity of Acacia Research Corporation
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Acacia Research Corporation have bought $127,103 and sold $68,573 worth of Acacia Research Corporation stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Acacia Research Corporation have bought $196,257 and sold $67,643 worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: McNulty Martin D. Jr. (Chief Executive Officer) — $100,303. Soncini Jason W. (General Counsel) — $26,800.
The last purchase of 4,428 shares for transaction amount of $24,000 was made by McNulty Martin D. Jr. (Chief Executive Officer) on 2024‑05‑17.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Acacia Research Corporation
| 2024-11-25 | Sale | director | 15,000 0.0153% | $4.57 | $68,573 | -1.53% | ||
| 2024-05-17 | General Counsel | 5,000 0.0051% | $5.36 | $26,800 | -11.90% | |||
| 2024-05-17 | Chief Executive Officer | 4,428 0.0045% | $5.42 | $24,000 | -11.90% | |||
| 2024-05-16 | Chief Executive Officer | 14,534 0.0144% | $5.25 | $76,304 | -11.73% | |||
| 2023-05-26 | General Counsel | 12,500 0.0263% | $3.96 | $49,500 | +1.02% | |||
| 2023-05-24 | Interim CEO | 40,000 0.0834% | $3.75 | $150,000 | +5.60% | |||
| 2023-05-15 | Sale | Interim CFO | 12,495 0.026% | $4.00 | $49,980 | -1.50% | ||
| 2021-12-20 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 6,283 0.0127% | $4.71 | $29,600 | -8.32% | ||
| 2021-12-17 | Chief Financial Officer | 25,000 0.0522% | $5.10 | $127,453 | -12.42% | |||
| 2021-12-17 | General Counsel | 11,000 0.0228% | $5.05 | $55,585 | -12.42% | |||
| 2021-11-08 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 4,401 0.009% | $5.53 | $24,335 | -18.06% | ||
| 2021-06-18 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 5,909 0.0121% | $6.10 | $36,060 | -17.21% | ||
| 2021-06-07 | Sale | Chief Financial Officer | 9,600 0.0189% | $5.51 | $52,896 | -9.39% | ||
| 2021-05-10 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 4,573 0.0097% | $5.72 | $26,137 | -2.71% | ||
| 2020-12-18 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 5,565 0.0117% | $4.09 | $22,785 | +45.89% | ||
| 2020-12-16 | President & CIO | 50,000 0.1035% | $3.75 | $187,710 | +56.42% | |||
| 2020-12-15 | President & CIO | 50,000 0.1039% | $3.79 | $189,460 | +55.59% | |||
| 2020-11-09 | Sale | Chief IP Officer | 4,726 0.0098% | $3.61 | $17,070 | +62.95% | ||
| 2020-09-08 | director | 13,470 0.0284% | $3.77 | $50,845 | +53.93% | |||
| 2020-09-04 | director | 11,530 0.0237% | $3.78 | $43,631 | +49.21% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| Soncini Jason W. | General Counsel | 226661 0.2328% | $4.52 | 3 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| McNulty Martin D. Jr. | Chief Executive Officer | 198127 0.2035% | $4.52 | 3 | 0 | +5.6% |
| Kohlberg Isaac T. | director | 69274 0.0711% | $4.52 | 0 | 1 | |
| GRAZIADIO G LOUIS III | director | 605051 0.6214% | $4.52 | 37 | 7 | +12.07% |
| Tobia Alfred Victor Jr. | President & CIO | 588462 0.6044% | $4.52 | 10 | 0 | +11.19% |
| RYAN PAUL R | CEO | 430891 0.4425% | $4.52 | 10 | 86 | +58.65% |
| Walsh Frank E. III | director | 383961 0.3943% | $4.52 | 12 | 0 | +15.33% |
| HARRIS ROBERT L II | Executive Chairman | 379609 0.3899% | $4.52 | 11 | 78 | +109.39% |
| Vella Matthew | CEO & President | 245884 0.2525% | $4.52 | 0 | 15 | |
| Booth Marc W. | Chief IP Officer | 219684 0.2256% | $4.52 | 4 | 8 | <0.0001% |
| Key Marvin E | Chief Executive Officer | 190833 0.196% | $4.52 | 3 | 0 | +58.1% |
| Rosenstein Richard Jay | Chief Financial Officer | 146900 0.1509% | $4.52 | 1 | 1 | <0.0001% |
| OCONNELL MAUREEN | director | 138914 0.1427% | $4.52 | 2 | 0 | +51.57% |
| HAYNES CLAYTON J | Chief Financial Officer | 96922 0.0995% | $4.52 | 1 | 76 | <0.0001% |
| DEBOOM FRED A | director | 76100 0.0782% | $4.52 | 1 | 22 | <0.0001% |
| Lee Dooyong | Executive Vice President | 69467 0.0713% | $4.52 | 0 | 62 | |
| Hoover Kirsten | Interim CFO | 65455 0.0672% | $4.52 | 0 | 1 | |
| Treska Edward Joseph | Exec VP, Gen Counsel & Sec | 56035 0.0575% | $4.52 | 1 | 58 | <0.0001% |
| Stewart Robert B Jr | President | 52500 0.0539% | $4.52 | 1 | 2 | <0.0001% |
| FRYKMAN EDWARD W | director | 45757 0.047% | $4.52 | 0 | 2 | |
| BERMAN ROBERT ANDREW | COO, Gen'l Counsel, Secretary | 30000 0.0308% | $4.52 | 0 | 6 | |
| Anderson William S. | director | 13217 0.0136% | $4.52 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| KUMAR AMIT | Pres/CEO of CombiMatrix Corp. | 1100 0.0011% | $4.52 | 3 | 1 | <0.0001% |
| AKIN THOMAS B | director | 0 0% | $4.52 | 0 | 6 | |
| CURRIE F RIDGON | director | 0 0% | $4.52 | 0 | 12 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| Starboard Value LP | $325.79M | 61.11 | 61.12M | 0% | +$0 | 6.77 | |
| State Street | $14.87M | 2.79 | 2.79M | +3.96% | +$565,555.65 | <0.01 | |
| BlackRock | $13.03M | 2.44 | 2.44M | -1.56% | -$206,883.96 | <0.0001 | |
| Arrowmark Colorado Holdings Llc | $12.58M | 2.36 | 2.36M | 0% | +$0 | 0.03 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $11.98M | 2.25 | 2.25M | +0.61% | +$72,978.36 | <0.0001 | |
| Formidable Asset Management LLC | $8.26M | 1.56 | 1.56M | -7.63% | -$682,946.99 | 1.55 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $8.2M | 1.54 | 1.54M | +12.4% | +$904,788.83 | <0.01 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $8.02M | 1.5 | 1.5M | -1.77% | -$144,445.65 | 0.01 | |
| ROYCE & ASSOCIATES INC | $7.54M | 1.41 | 1.41M | +16.06% | +$1.04M | 0.07 | |
| Pacific Ridge Capital Partners, LLC | $5.6M | 1.05 | 1.05M | -6.7% | -$401,839.37 | 1.23 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $4.81M | 0.9 | 902,479 | +2.1% | +$99,036.53 | <0.0001 | |
| Roumell Asset Management, LLC | $3.88M | 0.73 | 727,463 | 0% | +$0 | 7.86 | |
| Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc. | $2.76M | 0.52 | 518,642 | -2.55% | -$72,221.50 | 0.01 | |
| Toroso Investments Llc | $2.65M | 0.5 | 502,067 | -5.88% | -$165,670.58 | 0.01 | |
| Acuitas Investments, LLC | $2.64M | 0.5 | 495,217 | +12.65% | +$296,486.62 | 1.4 | |
| Krilogy Financial | $2.51M | 0.47 | 470,000 | +74.07% | +$1.07M | 0.24 | |
| Northern Trust | $1.77M | 0.33 | 332,199 | +1.2% | +$21,058.82 | <0.0001 | |
| Westerly Capital Management Llc | $1.6M | 0.3 | 300,000 | -16.67% | -$319,800.00 | 0.86 | |
| Clayton Partners LLC | $1.57M | 0.3 | 295,489 | -48.61% | -$1.49M | 1.34 | |
| Brandywine Global Investment Management | $1.43M | 0.27 | 267,476 | -0.66% | -$9,524.71 | 0.01 | |
| Bridgeway Capital Management | $1.19M | 0.22 | 223,876 | -56.47% | -$1.55M | 0.02 | |
| Levin Capital Strategies | $1.18M | 0.22 | 220,691 | -7.27% | -$92,256.97 | 0.12 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $1.05M | 0.2 | 196,552 | +12.37% | +$115,346.51 | <0.0001 | |
| Empowered Funds Llc | $919,297.00 | 0.17 | 172,476 | +8.12% | +$69,023.49 | 0.02 | |
| Mariner Llc | $801,307.00 | 0.15 | 150,339 | +99.18% | +$398,998.53 | <0.01 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $697,586.00 | 0.13 | 130,879 | -30.19% | -$301,694.39 | <0.0001 | |
| Ancora Advisors Llc | $692,378.00 | 0.13 | 129,902 | 0% | +$0 | 0.02 | |
| Capital Wealth Alliance | $659,742.00 | 0.12 | 123,779 | -0.58% | -$3,864.25 | 0.39 | |
| Charles Schwab | $621,334.00 | 0.12 | 116,573 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | $586,007.00 | 0.11 | 109,945 | -22.44% | -$169,579.32 | <0.01 | |
| BNY Mellon | $559,466.00 | 0.11 | 104,965 | -11.72% | -$74,247.24 | <0.0001 | |
| Tealwood Asset Management | $497,146.00 | 0.09 | 93,273 | 0% | +$0 | 0.11 | |
| Advisor Group Holdings Inc | $487,162.00 | 0.09 | 91,400 | -8.01% | -$42,426.80 | <0.01 | |
| Jefferies Financial Group | $463,710.00 | 0.09 | 87,000 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| Quadrature Capital Ltd | $439,030.00 | 0.08 | 82,602 | New | +$439,030.00 | 0.01 | |
| T. Rowe Price | $338,000.00 | 0.06 | 63,244 | +5.01% | +$16,129.34 | <0.0001 | |
| Fidelity Investments | $326,526.00 | 0.06 | 61,262 | +0.09% | +$277.16 | <0.0001 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $320,807.00 | 0.06 | 60,191 | -6.18% | -$21,143.38 | <0.0001 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $284,830.00 | 0.05 | 53,439 | +94.98% | +$138,745.29 | <0.0001 | |
| Nuveen | $281,770.00 | 0.05 | 52,865 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Two Sigma | $254,545.00 | 0.05 | 47,757 | -35.31% | -$138,926.55 | <0.0001 | |
| UBS | $255,520.00 | 0.05 | 47,940 | +7.2% | +$17,162.59 | <0.0001 | |
| Marshall Wace | $231,940.00 | 0.04 | 43,516 | New | +$231,940.00 | <0.0001 | |
| Flagship Harbor Advisors | $213,200.00 | 0.04 | 40,000 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $204,565.00 | 0.04 | 38,380 | -27.54% | -$77,737.90 | <0.0001 | |
| Jump Financial Llc | $161,696.00 | 0.03 | 30,337 | +138.87% | +$94,005.09 | <0.01 | |
| American Century Investments | $153,904.00 | 0.03 | 28,875 | +4.38% | +$6,465.30 | <0.0001 | |
| Salem Investment Counselors | $152,780.00 | 0.03 | 28,664 | New | +$152,780.00 | 0.01 | |
| Hrt Financial Llc | $154,000.00 | 0.03 | 28,913 | +79.33% | +$68,123.68 | <0.01 | |
| Elkhorn Partners Limited Partnership | $147,000.00 | 0.03 | 27,500 | -14.33% | -$24,589.09 | 0.1 |