1 insider bought €617k of shares over the last 90 days, the latest filed 27 Aug 2026.
loanDepot, Inc., founded in 2010, is a Finance & Banking company based in Irvine, United States. Its directors and officers file their transactions with SEC (Form 4). In the past year (18 October 2025 to 18 October 2026), 66 filings came from 12 insiders.
Purchases and sales both appear in the filings: 4 purchases (1 insider, €617k) and 11 sales (3 insiders, €8.5M). Netting one side against the other leaves €7.9M of net selling. A purchase on the market is a deliberate choice to commit personal money, which is why it draws more attention than a grant. One trade stands out by size: a sale of €2.4M from Hsieh Anthony Li, disclosed on 18 November 2025. On the buying side, the filings list 1 chief executive among the declarants.
With 66 filings in twelve months, the company is more active than the median of 19 filings across the 5,812 companies we follow on the same exchange. The full history, which starts in 2021, counts 28 purchases against 184 sales. On the fundamentals side, the SEC filing (10-K) for the period ending 31 December 2025 lists net income at -62.6 m USD.
The most recent open-market purchase was published on 27 August 2026, 52 days ago. The median gap between a trade and its publication by SEC (Form 4) is 2 days. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction. Selling is not necessarily a view on the stock: liquidity needs and diversification are common motives.
Elsewhere in the same sector, our signals recently picked up insider purchases at First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. and Avidia Bancorp, Inc. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
Analysts rate loanDepot, Inc. Underperform (bearish), based on 2 analysts. Average price target: US$1.13.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
FY ended December 2025 · cache
25 of 484 declarations
loanDepot, Inc. (NYSE: LDI) is a U.S.-based residential mortgage and housing-finance company headquartered in Irvine, California, in the United States. Founded in 2010 by mortgage entrepreneur Anthony Hsieh, the company scaled rapidly into one of the largest nonbank retail mortgage lenders in the country. Its business model is anchored in originating, financing, selling, and servicing residential mortgage loans, with demand influenced by U.S. housing activity, interest-rate trends, refinance cycles, and overall affordability conditions.
A defining feature of loanDepot is its proprietary technology platform, mello®, which supports much of the borrower journey and internal workflow. The platform is intended to streamline loan application, processing, closing, and servicing, while also improving productivity and customer experience. loanDepot operates across multiple distribution channels, including direct-to-consumer, retail, and partner-driven channels. This diversified go-to-market structure helps the company source borrowers from different parts of the market and reduces reliance on any single origination channel. In addition to core mortgage lending, loanDepot offers adjacent services such as title, escrow, and settlement, and it has exposure to insurance-related services and real-estate-oriented offerings. These complementary businesses are meant to deepen customer relationships and increase lifetime value.
From a competitive standpoint, loanDepot competes in a highly fragmented and cyclical industry where scale, brand recognition, digital capability, customer acquisition efficiency, and servicing economics matter materially. The company positions itself as a national consumer brand with a strong marketing engine and a vertically integrated model that gives it more control over the customer experience from application through post-close servicing. Its servicing portfolio is strategically important because it can support recurring revenue and improve recapture opportunities when existing customers seek a new loan in the future.
Recent company developments suggest a strategic reset toward core competencies. In 2025 and early 2026, management emphasized a renewed focus on consumer direct lending, operating leverage, automation, and the application of AI to improve productivity and margins. loanDepot also reported higher origination volumes and continued efforts to improve adjusted profitability, while operating in a still-volatile mortgage market. For investors, loanDepot is best viewed as a cyclical U.S. mortgage platform with meaningful technology and servicing assets, listed on the NYSE in the United States, whose longer-term value proposition depends on rate normalization, disciplined cost control, and successful execution of its digital-first mortgage strategy.
Purchases our model currently ranks for the recommendations list.
All recommendationsHeadquarters: Irvine, United States · Founded: 2010 · Wikipedia article
Source: Wikidata (CC0).
| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | n.d. | -62.6 m USD | n.d. | 10-K |
| Dec 2024 | n.d. | -98.3 m USD | n.d. | 10-K |
| Dec 2023 | n.d. | -110.1 m USD | n.d. | 10-K |
| Dec 2022 | n.d. | -273.0 m USD | -1.75 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2021 | n.d. | 113.5 m USD | 0.87 USD | 10-K |
Amounts in USD, as filed (forms 10-K, 20-F or 40-F). Source: SEC EDGAR.