Michael J. Schall is CEO & President at ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC. (ESS). They have made 33 open-market trades across 3 companies since 2007, most recently 2026-05-15.
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Unrated. We grade insiders only on stock they chose to buy on the open market. Grants, option exercises and vesting say nothing about timing, so they don't count — which is why someone can file often and still have no grade. It isn't a bad sign: unrated buys beat every graded tier below A.
10 open-market purchases totalling $1.1M since 2009, against 23 sales. Across 10 scored buys the stock is down 1.4% at ninety days, and 4.6 points behind the S&P over the same stretch.
10 scored purchases · one row per filing · discretionary only
| Ticker | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ESS | 51,476 | $13.9M |
| PEB | 134,530 | $2.6M |
| NSA | 11,291 | $490K |
| Total | $17.0M |
Shares reported on the most recent Form 4, priced at the 2026-05-19 close.
Counted per filing, not per execution lot — a purchase filled in several tranches is one decision.
| 7d | 30d | 90d | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| Avg Move | -2.4% | -2.1% | -1.4% |
| Alpha | -0.5% | -2.3% | -4.6% |
| Scored | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Ticker | Type | Traded | Filed | Price | Value | 7d Stock | 30d Stock | 90d Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEB | BUY | 2025-11-19 | 2025-11-20 | $10.85 | $109K | +3.5% | +8.0% | +17.7% |
| PEB | BUY | 2025-08-19 | 2025-08-21 | $10.08 | $101K | +13.2% | +13.4% | +4.2% |
| PEB | BUY | 2025-05-07 | 2025-05-07 | $9.04 | $181K | +7.8% | +4.1% | +6.8% |
| NSA | BUY | 2025-03-06 | 2025-03-10 | $38.54 | $154K | -2.8% | -12.3% | -14.6% |
| PEB | BUY | 2025-03-05 | 2025-03-05 | $11.87 | $237K | -7.7% | -28.6% | -22.4% |
| ESS | SELL | 2022-03-29 | 2022-03-30 | $349.19 | $8.5M | -1.7% | -6.1% | -24.7% |
| ESS | SELL | 2021-10-28 | 2021-10-29 | $343.70 | $21.4M | +0.4% | +1.5% | -6.0% |
| ESS | SELL | 2020-02-12 | 2020-02-13 | $319.90 | $8.4M | -1.8% | -30.7% | -28.5% |
| ESS | SELL | 2020-02-11 | 2020-02-12 | $319.43 | $2.9M | -0.2% | -13.5% | -27.8% |
| ESS | SELL | 2019-08-22 | 2019-08-23 | $319.22 | $22.5M | +2.5% | +2.7% | -0.5% |
| ESS | SELL | 2019-03-15 | 2019-03-18 | $290.10 | $1.6M | +1.4% | -4.0% | +5.7% |
| ESS | SELL | 2018-12-10 | 2018-12-12 | $263.91 | $175K | -7.3% | -3.5% | +11.0% |
| ESS | SELL | 2018-11-12 | 2018-11-13 | $254.03 | $169K | +0.1% | +2.2% | +8.8% |
| ESS | SELL | 2018-10-24 | 2018-10-25 | $252.63 | $1.5M | -1.7% | +0.8% | +3.0% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-12-11 | 2017-12-12 | $247.37 | $2.4M | -4.9% | -7.6% | -5.1% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-11-10 | 2017-11-13 | $255.50 | $85K | -2.8% | -3.8% | -11.6% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-10-10 | 2017-10-11 | $257.92 | $172K | +0.6% | -0.7% | -8.5% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-09-11 | 2017-09-12 | $267.02 | $178K | -3.6% | -1.3% | -5.8% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-08-10 | 2017-08-11 | $263.97 | $176K | +2.5% | +3.4% | -1.4% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-07-10 | 2017-07-11 | $256.06 | $171K | +4.4% | +3.4% | +1.5% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-06-12 | 2017-06-12 | $263.00 | $88K | +0.4% | -3.3% | +2.5% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-05-12 | 2017-05-12 | $252.63 | $6.9M | +1.8% | +4.1% | +4.1% |
| ESS | SELL | 2017-03-31 | 2017-04-03 | $232.01 | $4.6M | +1.2% | +7.3% | +13.2% |
| ESS | SELL | 2016-07-05 | 2016-07-07 | $222.23 | $2.2M | -1.9% | +1.0% | -7.6% |
| ESS | SELL | 2015-08-18 | 2015-08-18 | $232.03 | $2.3M | -2.0% | -0.5% | -0.5% |
Grouped by shared companies and similar filing behaviour. This is a similarity measure, not a ranking or a performance signal.