CATY Cathay General Bancorp

NASDAQ
$62.42

Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) 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.

Insider signal Moderately bearish Selling ran elevated versus CATY's own trailing one-year pace, with 4% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 2 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
6
15 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$5.5M
91,994 shares
Net activity
-$5.5M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 4% planned / 96% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $243.5K 1 transaction · 4,836 shares
Discretionary sales $5.2M 14 transactions · 87,158 shares

Largest single sale: $1.1M.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

No open-market insider purchase on record.

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
Sun Richard Director Sell 1,000 $62.31 $62.3K 2,200 −31.3% of holding
Lo Thomas M. EVP, Chief Admin Officer Sell 1,600 $62.47 $100.0K 2,362 −40.4% of holding
Sun Richard Director Sell 1,000 $62.08 $62.1K 3,200 −23.8% of holding
Sun Richard Director Sell 3,000 $63.09 $189.3K 2,800 −51.7% of holding
Sun Richard Director Sell 5,000 $62.43 $312.1K 2,315 −68.4% of holding
Sun Richard Director Sell 5,000 $63.31 $316.6K 6,340 −44.1% of holding
Sun Richard 2 fills Director Sell 20,000 $63.31 $1.3M 11,340 −63.8% of holding
TANG ANTHONY M Vice Chairman Sell 5,000 $59.92 $299.6K 147,876 −3.3% of holding
TANG ANTHONY M Vice Chairman Sell 10,000 $58.90 $589.0K 152,876 −6.1% of holding
TANG ANTHONY M Vice Chairman Sell 5,000 $58.37 $291.8K 162,876 −3% of holding
TANG ANTHONY M Vice Chairman Sell 10,000 $58.16 $581.6K 167,876 −5.6% of holding
WU PETER Vice Chairman Sell 20,000 $57.33 $1.1M 275,252 −6.8% of holding
Chan May K. SVP, General Counsel Sell 558 $56.00 $31.3K 2,693 −17.2% of holding
Liu Chang President & CEO Sell 10b5-1 4,836 $50.35 $243.5K 127,819 −3.6% 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.