(Update 12-14-2023) Came across this issue again when doing some research on the Hashicorp stock ($HCP).
I assume cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto has a shell company and didn’t use his own name for the shares he traded. I didn’t dig into it: it’s not something that I feel it’s productive for me to do. A while ago though, I did think about learn the Go lang and see if I can be one of the 1st 200/300 employees at Hashicorp (thinking the stocks pre-IPO). It didn’t materialize 🙂 Btw, I just learned Mitchell is leaving Hashicorp.
Again I feel we should not worry about insiders selling stocks? In most cases we don’t need to do, as the insiders would like to to cash out for their life style or charity, note Bill Gates, if he didn’t sell, he would be a trillionaire? Just look at Steve Baller’s $MSFT stock.
Happy Microsoft $MSFT Dividend Day to all who celebrate
Shareholders received a quarterly dividend of $0.75 for each share that they own
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft received a dividend check for $249,939,742.50
He's on track to make $1 Billon in annual dividends pic.twitter.com/eJ3P6oskjS
— Dividend Growth Investor (@DividendGrowth) December 14, 2023
(Original 2007) Not too much. From time to time, the insiders of the company, a.k.a, the founders, the senior management, or even the venture capital, decided to sell their stocks in the public market. As ordinary investors I used to be worried about those kinds of events. Until I read Peter Lynch’s book One Up On Wall Street
Last Friday New Oriental revealed that its CEO Yu Minghong and another director will sell a large amount of stocks. It’s no surprise the market reacted negatively. But I am not worried. I bought some more EDU stocks instead. At 33.00 (note its fiscal 2007 first 6 months earning $0.68, and its first quarter is the strongest traditionally), I believe it’s fair priced.
This morning the news came another company Mindray will sell more stocks. I am not worried either. Because in all these cases, the fundamentals of company are intact.