No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by Riley Richard J., was filed 21 Nov 2024.
Every trade that managers of Origin Materials, Inc. disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Chemicals & Materials sector. In the past year (22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026), 15 filings came from 6 insiders.
The flow runs one way only: 8 sales worth €117k, from 3 insiders, and no purchase. Biggest ticket of the year: €72k, sold by Plavan Matthew T and made public on 4 November 2025.
Filings reach the SEC (Form 4) feed a median of 5 days after the trade. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction. Sales are harder to read than purchases, since they often meet personal needs such as tax or diversification.
Compared with its exchange (3,171 companies, median 24 filings), a count of 15 filings is below the norm. The full history, which starts in 2021, counts 17 purchases against 53 sales. On the fundamentals side, the SEC filing (10-K) for the period ending 31 December 2025 lists revenue at 18.9 m USD and net income at -249.7 m USD.
Every figure here comes from the filings published by SEC (Form 4) and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.
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Origin Materials, Inc. is a U.S.-based industrial technology company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols ORGN and ORGNW. Headquartered in West Sacramento, California, at 930 Riverside Pkwy, Suite 10, the company focuses on sustainable materials and technologies designed to displace fossil-based inputs across multiple end markets. Its investment case is best understood as a platform story: a research-driven materials company seeking to commercialize proprietary technology rather than a conventional commodity producer or packaging manufacturer.
Origin traces its roots to a project co-founded by John Bissell, who co-founded the company in November 2008 and has served as CEO since inception. The company’s core message centers on its “furanics” platform, which is intended to convert carbon into sustainable materials. Historically, management has described a very broad addressable market spanning food and beverage packaging, textiles, plastics, automotive parts, carpeting, adhesives, soil amendments, and fuels. That breadth underscores Origin’s ambition to become a multi-application materials platform rather than a single-product vendor.
Operationally, Origin’s business lines are centered on renewable materials technologies and, more recently, caps and closures products. In its latest communications, the company highlighted progress in sustainable PET bottle caps, reflecting a more commercial, nearer-term route to market. A notable recent development was the March 2026 announcement of a strategic distribution agreement with HP Embalagens in Brazil for sustainable PET bottlecaps, indicating that Origin is pursuing international commercialization through channel partners and packaging customers. This is important for investors because it suggests the company is trying to convert technology into tangible commercial adoption, especially in packaging.
Competitively, Origin occupies a niche within the sustainable materials and packaging innovation landscape. It is not a large-scale incumbent; rather, it competes on technology, environmental positioning, and the potential to offer lower-carbon alternatives to traditional petroleum-based materials. Its differentiation depends on technical performance, customer qualification, scalability, and eventually cost competitiveness. Against major chemical groups and packaging suppliers, Origin remains a small-cap, pre-scale or early-commercial company, which means execution risk is high but upside could be meaningful if adoption broadens.
Among recent corporate milestones, the company announced on May 1, 2026 a plan to sell its technology and pursue an orderly wind-down of operations, alongside workforce reductions aimed at preserving value and continuing customer qualification work. It also completed a 1-for-30 reverse stock split effective March 19, 2026, after which ORGN and ORGNW continued trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market. For investors in the United States and abroad, Origin should therefore be viewed as a high-risk, event-driven materials technology name with Nasdaq listing status, a U.S. domicile, and a strategic process that could materially reshape the equity story.
| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 18.9 m USD | -249.7 m USD | -50.55 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2024 | 31.3 m USD | -83.7 m USD | -17.54 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2023 | 28.8 m USD | 23.8 m USD | 0.17 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2022 | n.d. | 78.6 m USD | 0.55 USD | 10-K |
Amounts in USD, as filed (forms 10-K, 20-F or 40-F). Source: SEC EDGAR.