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Insider history — POET Technologies (FPI regime)

Why Form 4 does NOT apply to POET

POET Technologies Inc. is incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) and qualifies as a foreign private issuer (FPI) under SEC Rule 405 of the Securities Act. FPI status carries a specific exemption from Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act, which is the section that mandates Form 3 / Form 4 / Form 5 insider-transaction reporting for US-domestic-issuer Section-16 officers and directors.

Practical consequence: POET insiders do not file Form 4s for routine equity-grant settlements, RSU vesting, option exercises, open-market purchases, or open-market sales. A search of SEC EDGAR for POET CIK 0001437424 returns zero Form 3 / 4 / 5 filings in the company’s history. ✓

Per the FY2025 20-F: POET is “a Canadian foreign private issuer eligible for MJDS” (Multijurisdictional Disclosure System) — confirming FPI status. ✓

This produces three structural insider-disclosure consequences:

  1. No real-time Section-16 trade ledger. Investors cannot reconstruct POET insider buying / selling from EDGAR Form-4 feeds the way they can for MRVL, NVDA, AMD, LWLG, or any US-domestic comp.
  2. Insider trades flow through three alternative channels (detailed below).
  3. Aggregator services (OpenInsider, BarChart, Fintel, NASDAQ insider feeds) that scrape Form 4 data show near-empty data sets for POET by construction. Any “insider transaction” claim based on these aggregators is inherently incomplete.

1. SEC Form 144 — proposed sales by affiliates

Form 144 is mandatory when a holder proposes to sell more than 5,000 shares (or > $50,000 aggregate value) of restricted or controlled securities under Rule 144 within a 3-month window. It applies to FPIs whose securities are sold in US markets.

POET Form 144 ledger (SEC EDGAR; CIK 0001437424):

Date filedFilerRelationshipShares proposedAggregate market valueBrokerOutstanding shares (per filing)Source
2025-10-03Riley Family Trust UAD October 16, 2014Director (Glen Riley)8,163 Class A common$51,018UBS Financial Services Inc.76,507,157 ⚠ (filer’s representation; appears stale/inaccurate at filing date)acc. 0001969223-25-000826 ✓

Read. One Form 144 filing in the past 12 months, covering 8,163 shares (~$51K) by a director. The aggregate market value is approximately 0.004% of POET’s market cap at filing. As a sentiment signal, this is immaterially small. As a structural data point, the absence of a thicker 144 ledger reinforces that POET’s insider transactions are simply not visible at the granularity of US-domestic comps.

Filing detail. The Form 144 lists the director’s prior acquisitions in early-to-mid-2022 (open market purchases at unspecified prices) — i.e., the director is selling shares acquired ~3 years prior. This is a routine personal-portfolio transaction, not an insider-sentiment signal.

Pre-Oct 2025 Form 144 filings

The POET Form 144 filing record on SEC EDGAR shows only the single 2025-10-03 filing in the recent multi-year period. Earlier Form 144 history would require fuller archive retrieval; the absence of regular 144 filings is consistent with a Canadian-incorporated FPI whose insiders may transact through Canadian brokerage channels not subject to Form 144 (i.e., the SEDI route below).

2. Canadian SEDI / SEDAR+ — primary insider-trade ledger

For Canadian-incorporated POET insiders, the System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (SEDI) — accessible via the SEDAR+ platform at sedarplus.ca — is the primary insider-transaction disclosure channel under Canadian securities law (National Instrument 55-104 “Insider Reporting Requirements”).

SEDI requirements for POET insiders:

  • Initial reporting: Within 10 days of becoming a reporting insider, file an Insider Profile + initial holdings disclosure.
  • Trade reports: Within 5 calendar days of each transaction (vs. 2 business days for SEC Form 4).
  • Coverage: Direct + indirect beneficial ownership of POET securities; option / warrant grants and exercises; RSU / DSU settlements.

Practical access for analysts:

  • SEDI / SEDAR+ insider filings are publicly accessible but the user interface is less analyst-friendly than EDGAR Form 4 feeds.
  • No bulk JSON / RSS feed equivalent to EDGAR’s submissions API — data must be retrieved via web search at sedarplus.ca by issuer name “POET Technologies Inc.”
  • Aggregators that cover SEDI (Insider Filings Reporter, INK Research) have variable coverage quality.
  • Refresh of POET SEDI ledger to a structured KB JSON is not yet implemented. Per the research tooling notes ⚠.

Confidence flag. ⚠ The KB acknowledges that POET’s insider-trading data is structurally less complete than US-domestic comparables. Cross-checking SEDI disclosures against the available Form 144 ledger is open.

3. Schedule 13G / 13G/A — 5%+ beneficial owners

5%+ holders are required to file Schedule 13G (passive holders) or Schedule 13D (active holders) regardless of issuer FPI status. These filings are visible on SEC EDGAR. POET’s Schedule 13G/A ledger over the past year shows a single dominant institutional concentration:

DateFiler (joint filing)Shares beneficially owned% of classDate of eventAccession
2026-02-17MM Asset Management Inc. + segregated portfolio company (joint)14,483,3709.99%2025-12-31acc. 0001104659-26-016326 ✓
2025-10-10MM Asset Management Inc. + co-filer11,211,5229.99%2025-10-08acc. 0001104659-25-098718 ✓
2025-10-09MM Asset Management Inc. + co-filer9,763,2309.99%2025-09-30acc. 0001104659-25-098365 ✓
2025-10-09MM Asset Management Inc. + co-filer(concurrent filing)9.99%2025-09-30acc. 0001104659-25-098361 ✓
2025-08-14(Same filer group / earlier amendment)(similar disclosure cadence) ◐(~9.99%)(Q2 2025)acc. 0001104659-25-078685
2025-05-15(Same filer group / earlier amendment)(smaller) ◐<10%(Q1 2025)acc. 0001104659-25-049564
2025-02-14(Same filer group / initial 13G/A)(initial concentration) ◐(just above 5%)(Q4 2024)acc. 0001104659-25-013591

MM Asset Management Inc. — the load-bearing institutional position

  • Filer entity: MM Asset Management Inc. (Toronto-based asset manager)
  • Signatory of MM Asset Management filings: Hillel Meltz, President
  • Joint filer (segregated portfolio company): Signed by Ulla Vestergaard, Director (entity name structurally consistent with a Cayman / BVI segregated-portfolio investment fund managed by MM Asset Management)
  • Type of Reporting Person (Item 12 of Schedule 13G): “OO” (Other) with comment “Segregated portfolio company”
  • CUSIP: 73044W302 (POET Common Shares)

Position trajectory:

  • 2025-02-14: Initial 13G/A (above 5% threshold first crossed)
  • 2025-05-15 → 2025-08-14: Position tracking
  • 2025-09-30: 9,763,230 shares / 9.99%
  • 2025-10-08: 11,211,522 shares / 9.99% (immediate post Oct 7 / Oct 28 raises — net buyer in the raises)
  • 2025-12-31: 14,483,370 shares / 9.99% (additional accumulation)

Critical pattern. MM Asset Management has held precisely 9.99% — i.e., immediately below the 10% beneficial-ownership trigger that would impose Section 16-equivalent reporting obligations on the holder. The position has been topped up with each successive raise (9.76M → 11.21M → 14.48M shares between Sept 2025 and Feb 2026), suggesting the holder is actively managing the threshold to participate in capital raises while remaining below the 10% reporting wall. ⚠

Read. This is the most notable institutional pattern in the POET equity. Whether it represents a single disciplined long-term holder, a structured-product position with engineered reporting limits, or an active-management strategy is not disclosable from the 13G filings alone. Aggregator cross-check (Fintel / WhaleWisdom) on subsequent quarters is open.

Other 13G filers

Per the EDGAR submissions feed, the only Schedule 13G / 13D filers for POET CIK 0001437424 in the recent period are MM Asset Management + co-filer. This means:

  • No Vanguard / BlackRock 13G filing (i.e., POET does not yet meet the index-inclusion / passive-fund threshold for these to file).
  • No Fidelity / T. Rowe Price 13G filing — active-manager exposure to POET is below 5% per filer.
  • No 13D filer — no activist position has crossed 5%.

Implication. POET’s institutional ownership beyond MM Asset Management is dispersed sub-5% per filer — the standard 13F quarterly-filing channel becomes the relevant disclosure layer. See institutional_holders.

4. POET-specific quirks that matter for FPI insider analysis

Insider transactions visible only via SEDI

A Canadian-domiciled POET insider transacting on the TSX side (when POET was TSXV listed pre-Aug 27 2025) or in a Canadian brokerage account would file via SEDI — visible at sedarplus.ca, not on SEC EDGAR. Analysts running EDGAR-only insider-tracker workflows will systematically miss these trades. ⚠

TSX Venture Exchange delisting (2025-08-27)

POET delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange effective August 27, 2025 (per Nov 2025 F-3ASR registration statement). This means:

  • Pre-August 2025: POET dual-listed NASDAQ + TSXV; insider trades visible on both SEC + Canadian regulatory channels.
  • Post-August 2025: POET listed on NASDAQ only (with TSX:PTK as a separate trading symbol no longer applying — the TSXV delist removed Canadian primary listing).
  • Insider reporting under Canadian law continues because POET remains incorporated in Ontario and its securities trade in Canadian markets via NASDAQ ADR-style cross-trading; SEDI obligations persist.

Note. The user-spec “TSX:PTK” reference appears to be incorrect — POET’s Canadian listing was on TSXV (TSX Venture Exchange) under symbol PTK, not the senior TSX. That listing was discontinued on August 27, 2025. ⚠ Cross-check primary at poet-technologies.com investor news and the Nov 2025 F-3ASR (acc. 0001493152-25-025394) which discloses the delist.

5. What insider-trading data IS available — synthesized read

Pulling together the three available channels:

ChannelCoverageData qualityMost recent significant disclosure
SEC Form 4 / 5NONE (FPI exempt)n/an/a
SEC Form 144Affiliate proposed salesSingle recent filing (Riley Family Trust 2025-10-03; 8,163 shares / $51K)2025-10-03
Canadian SEDI / SEDAR+All Canadian-domiciled insider transactionsLess granular than EDGAR; manual retrieval ⚠Refresh open
Schedule 13G/A5%+ holders onlyConfirms MM Asset Management 9.99% concentration2026-02-17 (most recent)
13F (Q1 2026 due ~May 15 2026)Institutional holders (1934 Act §13(f) reporting institutions)Standard quarterly-lag aggregator dataPending

Net read. POET does not have a real-time insider-trading sentiment signal of analyst-grade granularity. Investors who require Section-16 insider-buy-sell signals as a thesis input cannot get them on POET. This is a structural feature of FPI status, not a data-collection failure.

6. Open items / refresh queue

  • SEDI bulk retrieval automation. Build SEDAR+ scrape (POET Technologies Inc.) into an analyst-grade JSON insider-transaction feed comparable to LWLG / MRVL Form 4 data.
  • Riley Form 144 follow-through. Verify whether the 8,163 shares were actually sold post-filing; SEC Form 144 is the proposed sale, not the executed trade.
  • MM Asset Management identity verification. Confirm whether the joint segregated-portfolio-company filer is associated with MM Asset Management (likely affiliated fund) — would clarify whether the 9.99% position is single-economic-owner or coordinated through a fund-of-funds structure.
  • TSXV delist confirmation. Cross-check the August 27, 2025 TSXV delist via primary POET press release / 6-K furnishing.

Sources

Primary SEC filings (POET CIK 0001437424)

Canadian regulatory channels

  • SEDI / SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca — search “POET Technologies Inc.” for the full Canadian insider-disclosure record.
  • National Instrument 55-104 (Insider Reporting Requirements and Exemptions) — governing rule for Canadian insider reporting.

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