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Director Marx Felix sold 3,000 shares of Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT) on February 24, 2026, in a transaction that generated $3,000 in proceeds. The sale was disclosed in a Form 4 filing with the SEC. Following the sale, Felix held 8,643 shares. The stock is trading at $0.90, down 11% over the prior week and 20% over the past year, with a mark…
The Federal Aviation Administration restricted flights around Fort Hancock, Texas after congressional aides reported that a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have accidentally shot down a U.S. government drone. The FAA cited "special security reasons" for the airspace notice. Earlier this month, the agency briefly ordered a clo…
Generate Biomedicines has set the price for its initial public offering at $16.00 per share for 25 million common shares, targeting $400 million in gross proceeds before underwriting discounts and commissions. The company granted a 30-day option for underwriters to buy up to 3.75 million additional shares, and expects its stock to begin trading on …
Bloom Energy Chairman and CEO Sridhar KR sold 200,000 Class A shares on February 24, 2026, for about $34 million, at prices between $170.00 and $170.05 per share. The transaction leaves him with 2,189,869 Class A shares. The sale coincides with a stock trading at $168.57 after a 632% gain over the past year and follows a strong Q4 2025 in which Blo…
Director Paul B. Manning bought 550,458 shares of Candel Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CADL) on February 23, 2026, paying $5.45 per share for a total of $2,999,996. The transaction occurred while the stock was trading at $5.15. Manning's direct and indirect holdings, plus recent company filings, outline both insider accumulation and a $100 million public o…
Illumination Acquisition Corp I has priced a 20 million-unit initial public offering at $10 per unit, generating $200 million in gross proceeds. Units are slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on February 27, 2026, with separate listings for Class A shares and redeemable warrants expected once the securities trade separately. The comp…
U.S. stock index futures moved lower Thursday evening as Nvidia’s post-earnings decline spread through technology names, overshadowing other corporate moves. Netflix rallied sharply in after-hours trading after announcing it would not raise its offer for Warner Bros Discovery following an upgraded bid from Paramount Skydance. Other notable aftermar…
ReposiTrak Chief Executive Officer Randall K. Fields sold 7,500 shares of common stock across February 24 and 25, 2026, through a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, generating $62,891 in proceeds. The transactions were reported on a Form 4 filing with the SEC. The company has also declared a quarterly dividend, authorized a new 10b5-1 buyback allocatio…
China's central bank said it will eliminate the foreign exchange risk reserve applied to certain currency forwards, lowering the effective cost for institutions that buy U.S. dollars via these instruments. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will reduce the requirement from 20% to zero for financial institutions purchasing foreign exchange through fo…
SkyWest Inc. Chief Commercial Officer Wade J. Steel disposed of 20,629 shares on February 24, 2026, receiving roughly $2.2 million. The transaction occurred at a weighted average price of $106.5281. The company recently reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that topped analyst forecasts, while InvestingPro analysis notes the stock is overvalued vers…
Director Jack Bendheim and BFI Co., LLC, a ten percent owner of Phibro Animal Health Corp (NASDAQ: PAHC), sold a combined $1.1 million in Class A common stock between February 24 and February 26, 2026. The disposition comprised 20,120 shares executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted May 30, 2025. The stock is trading near its 52-week high, …
Insulet’s Omnipod adoption and international expansion keep revenue growth visible, free cash flow is healthy, and recent guidance raises show the company is executing. The stock trades below its 52-week high but still at a premium multiple; this trade idea lays out a long entry at $252 with a $310 target and $235 stop, sized for a long-term horizo…
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said sales under the flagship U.S.-Venezuela oil supply agreement are expected to total about $2 billion by the end of February. Since U.S. forces took control of Venezuela's oil exports in early January, proceeds have been routed to a U.S.-supervised fund in Qatar while trading houses and PDVSA partners move volu…
BlackRock Senior Managing Director J. Richard Kushel sold 2,385 shares of BlackRock stock on February 24, 2026, in two transactions that generated $2.58 million in proceeds. The trades were executed at prices between $1,083.05 and $1,084.9101 per share. After the sales, Kushel retains both direct and indirect holdings in the company. The transactio…
Ourania Tatsis, Executive Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, sold shares under a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, disposing of 1,887 shares across two days for roughly $915,724. The trades were filed on a Form 4 with the SEC. Vertex shares trade near their 52-week high even as the company reported a slight EPS miss for Q4 2025 and a…
Nvidia crushed earnings and guided even higher, yet the stock pulled back on profit-taking and concern about concentration and buybacks. The numbers support a constructive stance: $68.13B revenue, $1.62 EPS, $78B guidance and roughly $4.55T market cap. This trade plan buys the post-earnings dip with a long-term horizon and clear risk controls.
Amit Sachdev, Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Executive Vice President and Chief Patient & External Affairs Officer, executed two share dispositions across February 24-25, 2026, via a company-approved 10b5-1 trading plan. The transactions reduced his directly held stake while leaving him with substantial direct and indirect holdings. The stock sales oc…
Krystal Biotech director Daniel Janney sold 37,825 shares of common stock on February 24, 2026, generating $10,113,353 in proceeds, and also sold 13,666 shares indirectly owned by Alta Bioequities, L.P. for $6,036,029. Janney simultaneously exercised options to acquire 37,895 shares at $2.46 per share under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
Duncan McKechnie, Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, sold a total of 5,783 shares across February 24-25, 2026, generating roughly $2.81 million in proceeds. The transactions were executed under a 10b5-1 plan and reported via a Form 4 filing. The trade comes while Vertex shares trade near their 52-week hig…
Tokyo's annual core consumer price inflation slowed to 1.8% in February from 2.0% in January, falling beneath the Bank of Japan's 2% target for the first time since October 2024. A narrower measure that excludes fresh food and fuel rose 2.5%. The slowdown aligns with BOJ projections that fuel subsidies and last year's base effects will temporarily …
Alphabet’s Google has reached a multi-year agreement to rent its tensor processing units to Meta Platforms, a deal reported to be worth billions of dollars. Meta will deploy the chips to develop new artificial intelligence models. The arrangement amplifies competition with NVIDIA in AI hardware, while Google continues to face manufacturing constrai…
Capstone Green Energy appears to be exiting a multi-year trough and rebuilding a business on higher-margin aftermarket services and incremental product wins. With execution improving, the setup favors a long trade that balances event-driven upside against execution and financing risk. The plan below gives specific entry, target, and stop levels wit…
Venezuela's oil ministry has placed 19 production-sharing contracts signed under President Nicolas Maduro on suspension, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The pause has not reduced oil or gas production so far, as state oil company PDVSA continues to market the crude produced under those agreements. Both Venezuelan and U.S. authoritie…
Aftab Dana, Executive Vice President for Research and Development at Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL), sold 47,918 shares on February 24, 2026, for $44.50 per share, totaling $2,132,351. The transaction occurs while third-party analysis flags the stock as trading below its intrinsic value. Exelixis reported a fourth-quarter 2025 EPS beat but missed re…
Mueller Water Products director Gregg C Sengstack bought 25,000 shares on February 25, 2026, in a transaction valued at $739,415. The purchase occurred as the shares trade close to a 52-week high and follows quarterly results that exceeded analyst forecasts on both earnings per share and revenue. Market valuation metrics from InvestingPro flag the …
