Company / CIK 0000794685
GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC
- Ticker
- GAB
- Insiders on file
- 8
- Federal contracts on record
- none matched
- Lobbying filings on record
- none matched
- SEC filings
- EDGAR ↗
- Latest trade on record
- April 28, 2026
GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC (GAB) has 8 insiders on file who disclosed 16 transactions in the last 12 months (2 open-market buys, 1 sale, about $14.7M at reported prices). No federal contract award that started in the last 180 days was found for a recipient with exactly this name; no lobbying filing names it as client this year.
GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC in charts
Who is trading this stock
Which people account for the buying and selling over the last 12 months?
2 people account for the disclosed buying and selling in GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC over the last 12 months; the most active is GABELLI MARIO J with $6.7M.
Insiders
| Name | Role | Rows | Bought | Sold | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZIZZA SALVATORE J | Director | 2 | 0 | 0 | July 1, 2026 |
| VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C | Director | 3 | 0 | 0 | June 3, 2026 |
| UBS Group AG | Insider | 1 | 0 | 0 | May 29, 2026 |
| Mullady Agnes | Director | 2 | 0 | 0 | April 30, 2026 |
| GABELLI MARIO J | Director | 6 | 2 | 0 | April 29, 2026 |
| Ball John Chester | President & Treasurer | 1 | 0 | 0 | April 29, 2026 |
| HEITMANN WILLIAM F | Director | 1 | 0 | 0 | April 29, 2026 |
| Nakamura Eileen Cheigh | Director | 1 | 0 | 1 | April 20, 2026 |
Rows are this company's Form 4 rows for each person. "Bought" and "sold" count open-market purchases (code P) and sales only. More in insider buying and insider selling.
Insider transactions
| Filer | Security | Side | Trade date | Disclosed | Lag | Shares | Price | Value | Flags | Source | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 36d | 200 | $6 | $1,100 | lateindirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 36d | 200 | $6 | $1,100 | lateindirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| VANEKRIS ANTHONIE C | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | June 3, 2026 | 36d | 500 | $6 | $2,750 | late | Form 4 ↗ | |
| ZIZZA SALVATORE J | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 30, 2026 | 2d | 433 | $5 | $2,165 | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| ZIZZA SALVATORE J | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 30, 2026 | 2d | 1,647 | $5 | $8,235 | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| Mullady Agnes | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 30, 2026 | 2d | 186 | $5 | $930 | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| Mullady Agnes | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 29, 2026 | 1d | 15 | $5 | $75 | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| HEITMANN WILLIAM F | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 29, 2026 | 1d | 17,948 | $5 | $90K | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| Ball John Chester | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 29, 2026 | 1d | 17 | $5 | $85 | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 29, 2026 | 1d | 84,168 | $5 | $421K | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Other J | April 28, 2026 | April 29, 2026 | 1d | 156,197 | $5 | $781K | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| Nakamura Eileen Cheigh | GAB | Sell S | April 16, 2026 | April 20, 2026 | 4d | 9,640 | $0 | $742 | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Other J | December 26, 2025 | December 30, 2025 | 4d | 50,000 | $100 | $5.0M | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Other J | December 26, 2025 | December 30, 2025 | 4d | 16,750 | $100 | $1.7M | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Buy P | December 26, 2025 | December 30, 2025 | 4d | 167,500 | $10 | $1.7M | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| GABELLI MARIO J | GAB | Buy P | December 26, 2025 | December 30, 2025 | 4d | 500,000 | $10 | $5.0M | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| UBS Group AG | GAB | Other J | June 28, 2024 | June 28, 2024 | 0d | 18 | $1,389 | $25K | indirect | Form 4 ↗ |
Federal contracts (USAspending, awards started in the last 180 days)
No contract award starting in the last 180 days was found for a recipient named exactly "GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC". Subsidiaries and differently-spelled recipients are not matched — search contracts.
Lobbying (Senate LDA, as client)
No LDA filing posted since October 2025 names "GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC" as the client. Filings under a subsidiary or trade-association name are not matched — search lobbying.
Related companies
Companies whose stock was traded by the same people who traded GAB, by number of filers in common. It shows overlap in public filings and nothing else.
- GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST GDV 4 filers in common
- GABELLI MULTIMEDIA TRUST INC. GGT 2 filers in common
- PIMCO NEW YORK MUNICIPAL INCOME FUND II PNI 1 filer in common
- BNY MELLON STRATEGIC MUNICIPALS, INC. LEO 1 filer in common
- PIMCO CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL INCOME FUND PCQ 1 filer in common
- Volcon, Inc. VLCN 1 filer in common
- EATON VANCE SENIOR FLOATING RATE TRUST EFR 1 filer in common
- ENDRA Life Sciences Inc. NDRA 1 filer in common
Guides for this page
- What is SEC Form 4? Who files: officers, directors and owners of more than 10% of a class of the company's shares.
- Insider buying vs insider selling Selling outweighs buying by a wide margin in normal times.
- What disclosure data cannot tell you Filings are late by design: up to 45 days for Congress, two business days for insiders.
Sources and method
| Source | Filings | Rows | First filed | Newest filed | Read the originals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC EDGAR, Form 4 | 11 | 17 | June 28, 2024 | June 3, 2026 | Form 4 list on EDGAR |
Site built October 27, 2026. Every row in the tables above links to its own filing. To quote a figure, use the Cite button at the top of the page; see how to cite and reuse.
Insiders and their transactions come from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings for this issuer. Contracts and lobbying are matched by exact normalized name (suffixes like Inc./Corp. ignored) to USAspending recipients and LDA clients — a conservative match that misses subsidiaries on purpose. See methodology and corrections.
Not investment advice. Public records shown as filed; no recommendation is made or implied.