UWM Holdings CEO Sells 1.27M Shares for $6.5 Million

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Adé Hennis, The Motley Fool

Sun, March 1, 2026 astatine 11:56 AM CST 3 min read

Mat Ishbia, President and CEO of UWM Holdings Corporation (NYSE:UWMC), executed open-market income totaling 1,265,748 shares via indirect holdings connected Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, 2026, arsenic disclosed successful the SEC Form 4 filing.

Metric

Value

Shares sold

1,265,748

Shares sold (indirect)

1,265,748

Transaction value

$6.5 million

Post-transaction shares (direct)

279,989

Post-transaction shares (indirect)

5,590,895

Post-transaction worth (direct ownership)

$1.43 million

Transaction and post-transaction values based connected SEC Form 4 weighted mean acquisition terms of $5.13 connected Feb. 4, 2026.

  • How does the size of this transaction comparison to Mat Ishbia's emblematic merchantability trades?
    The 1,265,748 shares sold are beneath the caller median merchantability size of 1,789,068 shares, truthful this isn’t arsenic ample a merchantability compared to caller erstwhile ones.

  • What is the value of the indirect ownership operation successful this transaction?
    All shares were sold from SFS Corp, an entity afloat controlled by Ishbia, with footnotes confirming his implicit authorization implicit voting and disposition; nary nonstop holdings were affected successful this trade.

Metric

Value

Revenue (TTM)

$3.46 billion

Net income (TTM)

$27.38 million

Dividend yield

9.07%

1-year terms alteration (as of Feb. 28, 2026)

-28.87%

UWM Holdings Corporation is simply a starring wholesale owe lender successful the United States, focusing connected residential indebtedness origination, sale, and servicing mortgages. It serves autarkic owe brokers and correspondents, targeting a wide basal of homebuyers and refinancing customers.

Ishbia has been selling shares indirectly rather often since December 2025, erstwhile helium started disconnected the period with 9.85 cardinal indirect shares, and with this Feb. 4 filing successful 2026, he’s near with astir fractional that.

While determination is nary wide crushed for Ishbiai’s stock sale, it should beryllium noted that the banal has underperformed successful the erstwhile 2 years. UWM's banal has been operating astatine a year-over-year nonaccomplishment successful caller months, and it fell astir 25% for the full twelvemonth of 2025.

What UWM Holdings tin look guardant to is its caller beardown Q4 FY 2025 net study connected Feb. 25, 2026. After a unsmooth Q3 net report, it bounced backmost with implicit a cardinal dollars successful revenue, the archetypal clip it reached a cardinal since Q1 2021. The Q4 gross was a 300% year-over-year (YoY) summation from the erstwhile year’s quarter.

The institution is besides finalizing its acquisition of Two Harbors Investment Corp. (NYSE:TWO),  a existent property concern spot (REIT). The merger was announced connected Dec. 17 and is expected to beryllium completed successful the 2nd 4th of 2026. The merger helps turn UWM’s servicing portfolio and tin beryllium a important origin for its ratio successful the existent property market.

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