CAKE The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) Insider Activity
What the officers, directors and large holders did with their own shares. Only open-market purchases and sales count toward the totals — grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and they're listed separately below.
How much of that selling was preplanned? 0% planned / 100% discretionary
Largest single sale: $2.7M.
Where they traded
Last open-market purchase: March 12, 2018 — 8.7 years ago, by Ames Edie A .
Recent open-market activity
| Date | Insider | Role | Action | Shares | Price | Value | Held after |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Matthew Eliot | EXEC VP, CFO | Sell | 23,832 | $113.31 | $2.7M | 45,109 −34.6% of holding | |
| May Scarlett | EVP, GENERAL COUNSEL | Sell | 2,939 | $114.12 | $335.4K | 15,302 −16.1% of holding | |
| CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L | Director | Sell | 425 | $113.71 | $48.3K | 3,428 −11% of holding | |
| Meyer Janice L. | Director | Sell | 1,958 | $109.36 | $214.1K | 21,251 −8.4% of holding |
Form 4s are due within two business days of a transaction, so this is close to real time — unlike the quarterly 13F data on the Institutional tab. A single large sale often reflects a prearranged 10b5-1 plan rather than a fresh view, so read a pattern of sales rather than any one of them.