CAKE The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

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$102.70

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.

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Insider signal Bearish Selling ran elevated versus CAKE's own trailing one-year pace, with 0% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 8 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
8
12 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$22.3M
213,749 shares
Net activity
-$22.3M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 0% planned / 100% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $0 0 transactions · 0 shares
Discretionary sales $22.3M 12 transactions · 213,749 shares

Largest single sale: $10.0M.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

Last open-market purchase: March 12, 2018 — 8.5 years ago, by Ames Edie A .

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
Meyer Janice L. Director Sell 1,958 $109.36 $214.1K 21,251 −8.4% of holding
Gordon David M 2 fills PRESIDENT Sell 31,950 $110.03 $3.5M 41,959 −43.2% of holding
Ames Edie A Director Sell 3,000 $106.95 $320.9K 10,000 −23.1% of holding
OVERTON DAVID CHAIRMAN AND C.E.O. Sell 94,145 $106.27 $10.0M 89,805 −51.2% of holding
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L Director Sell 64 $106.08 $6.8K 3,853 −1.6% of holding
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L Director Sell 59 $104.20 $6.1K 3,917 −1.5% of holding
May Scarlett EVP, GENERAL COUNSEL Sell 7,978 $102.66 $819.0K 18,241 −30.4% of holding
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L Director Sell 100 $103.04 $10.3K 3,976 −2.5% of holding
Clark Matthew Eliot EXEC VP, CFO Sell 68,900 $99.30 $6.8M 45,109 −60.4% of holding
Hanscom Ashley W PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER Sell 3,500 $100.00 $350.0K 7,541 −31.7% of holding
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L Director Sell 2,095 $101.50 $212.6K 4,076 −33.9% 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.