A handful PacWest Bancorp insiders, including Chief Executive Paul Taylor, bought the bank’s stock late last week after it started to tumble, as SVB Financial Group’s Silicon Valley Bank’s troubles be...
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SoFi CEO Noto makes ‘opportunistic’ million-dollar stock purchase as SVB crisis fuels selloff
As SoFi Technologies Inc. shares fell Friday amid the fallout over Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the financial-technology company’s chief executive bought up stock. SoFi Chief Executive Anthony Noto...
AMC Stock Falls After CEO Warns Company Could Be Forced to Sell More ‘APEs’
AMC Entertainment stock closed down sharply Wednesday in the wake of comments from the CEO that the firm may be forced to sell more stock for less money if shareholders don’t approve measures that all...
PayPal’s Outgoing CEO Dan Schulman Buys Up Stock
PayPal Holdings stock has lost all of its gains from the pandemic era, when homebound shoppers used its services to buy online. The financial-services company’s outgoing president and CEO Dan Schulman...
PayPal CEO’s ‘unusual’ $2 million stock purchase is ‘certainly a positive’ signal
PayPal Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Dan Schulman just did something “unusual” for a departing executive. Often, executives and other insiders begin to trim their company stock exposure when they’re p...
Corteva CEO Chuck Magro Bought Up Stock
Corteva stock came through 2022 swimmingly, and shares of the seed-and-pesticide maker remain in positive territory in 2023. CEO Chuck Magro just bought a large block of the company’s stock. Corteva s...
Raytheon CEO Bought Up This Energy Stock
After a strong 2022, Phillips 66 stock recently slipped, and one director scooped up shares of the diversified-energy firm on the open market. Phillips 66 stock (ticker: PSX) surged 44% in 2022—a stro...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and CFO David Zinsner Buy Up Stock
Two of Intel ‘s top executives just bought up shares of the chip maker on the open market after the company issued disappointing guidance. They’ve done it before. Intel (ticker: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinge...
Small-cap companies are going after naked short sellers in growing numbers: ‘It’s the biggest risk to the health of today’s public markets’
A growing number of small-cap companies are announcing plans to go after naked short sellers, claiming their stocks are being artificially depressed by illegal trading activity. Verb Technology Co. In...
EOG Resources Director Mike Kerr Buys Up Stock
Energy exploration and production company EOG Resources had a boffo 2022, and one of its directors made his second purchase of shares in three months. EOG stock (ticker: EOG) surged 46% last year, lif...
CrowdStrike Stock Has Tumbled. A Director Scooped Up Shares.
CrowdStrike Holdings stock tumbled in 2022, and one director scooped up shares of the provider of security software in the last week of that year. CrowdStrike (ticker: CRWD) lost about half of its mar...
Intel’s Newest Director Buys Big Block of Stock
On the heels of Intel CEO buying the company’s stock, the chip giant’s newest director also scooped up shares. Lip-Bu Tan, who joined Intel’s (ticker: INTC) board on Sept. 1, paid $1.35 million on Nov...
Shopify CEO Buys $10 Million of Stock in the Open Market
Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke disclosed in a Canadian securities filing that he bought $10 million of the e-commerce software company’s shares on Monday, a week after the company reported its third-quarter...
Buffett’s Likely Successor Buys $68 Million of Berkshire Stock
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Greg Abel, the likely successor to CEO Warren Buffett, bought about $68 million of the company’s shares last Thursday in what appears to be his first purchases of Berk...
Adobe Stock Crumbled. Chief Financial Officer Dan Durn Bought the Dip.
Adobe stock tumbled after the software giant announced an acquisition. Soon thereafter, Chief Financial Officer Dan Durn bought nearly $1 million of shares. Adobe (ticker: ADBE) announced on Sept. 15 ...
Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker cashed out $2 million just before the collapse
The chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank SIVB, -60.41% cashed out stock and options for a $2.27 million net gain in the weeks before Friday’s collapse, public filings show. CEO Greg Becker exercised...