KN Knowles Corporation
$36.92
Knowles Corporation (KN) 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
In line
Selling ran in line with KN's own trailing one-year pace, with 55% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity
0 buyers in the last 30 days
0 buyers in the last 90 days
4 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
8
46 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$29.2M
968,010 shares
Net activity
-$29.2M
purchases less sales
How much of that selling was preplanned? 55% planned / 45% discretionary
10b5-1 plan sales
$16.0M
20 transactions · 501,641 shares
Discretionary sales
$13.1M
26 transactions · 466,369 shares
Largest single sale: $5.9M.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHAVERS CHERYL L 4 fills | Director | Sell | 13,236 | $39.27 | $519.8K | 35,898 −26.9% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 6,951 | $38.00 | $264.1K | 683,719 −1% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 43,049 | $38.69 | $1.7M | 690,670 −5.9% of holding | |
| Anderson John S. | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell 10b5-1 | 10,000 | $38.84 | $388.4K | 194,596 −4.9% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 150,000 | $39.07 | $5.9M | 733,719 −17% of holding | |
| Anderson John S. | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell 10b5-1 | 30,000 | $39.07 | $1.2M | 204,596 −12.8% of holding | |
| Cabrera Raymond D. | SVP, Chief HR Officer | Sell | 6,178 | $36.28 | $224.1K | 127,945 −4.6% of holding | |
| Giesecke Daniel J. 2 fills | Senior Vice President & COO | Sell 10b5-1 | 20,201 | $37.32 | $753.9K | 185,867 −9.8% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell | 142,857 | $33.25 | $4.7M | 883,719 −13.9% of holding | |
| Bastarrica Air A. Jr. | Vice President, Controller | Sell | 3,623 | $30.91 | $112.0K | 47,569 −7.1% of holding | |
| Bastarrica Air A. Jr. | Vice President, Controller | Sell | 2,153 | $29.96 | $64.5K | 51,192 −4% of holding | |
| Bastarrica Air A. Jr. | Vice President, Controller | Sell | 1,962 | $30.26 | $59.4K | 53,345 −3.5% of holding | |
| Bastarrica Air A. Jr. | Vice President, Controller | Sell | 2,262 | $30.68 | $69.4K | 55,307 −3.9% of holding | |
| PERNA ROBERT J | SVP, General Counsel & Sec | Sell | 9,221 | $27.88 | $257.1K | None left | |
| PERNA ROBERT J | SVP, General Counsel & Sec | Sell | 7,422 | $28.10 | $208.6K | 80,272 −8.5% of holding | |
| SHAVERS CHERYL L | Director | Sell | 3,700 | $27.40 | $101.4K | 36,076 −9.3% of holding | |
| BARNES KEITH | Director | Sell | 41,048 | $27.16 | $1.1M | None left | |
| Anderson John S. 2 fills | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell | 25,000 | $27.08 | $677.1K | 194,685 −11.4% of holding | |
| PERNA ROBERT J | SVP, General Counsel & Sec | Sell | 3,166 | $27.09 | $85.8K | 60,440 −5% of holding | |
| Giesecke Daniel J. | Senior Vice President & COO | Sell | 15,885 | $27.22 | $432.4K | 164,963 −8.8% of holding | |
| Bastarrica Air A. Jr. 2 fills | Vice President, Controller | Sell | 12,000 | $26.76 | $321.2K | 57,767 −17.2% of holding | |
| Cabrera Raymond D. | SVP, Chief HR Officer | Sell | 10,000 | $26.75 | $267.5K | 102,019 −8.9% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey 3 fills | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 75,000 | $26.50 | $2.0M | 789,370 −8.7% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 25,000 | $25.50 | $637.5K | 814,370 −3% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey 2 fills | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 50,000 | $24.75 | $1.2M | 864,370 −5.5% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 25,000 | $24.00 | $600.0K | 889,370 −2.7% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell 10b5-1 | 25,000 | $23.50 | $587.5K | 914,370 −2.7% of holding | |
| Anderson John S. 2 fills | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell 10b5-1 | 11,440 | $22.01 | $251.8K | 207,299 −5.2% of holding | |
| Anderson John S. 3 fills | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell | 30,000 | $21.07 | $632.0K | 237,299 −11.2% of holding | |
| Anderson John S. 3 fills | Senior Vice President & CFO | Sell 10b5-1 | 30,000 | $21.07 | $632.0K | 237,299 −11.2% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell | 38,404 | $23.55 | $904.4K | 939,370 −3.9% of holding | |
| Niew Jeffrey | President & CEO | Sell | 98,252 | $23.71 | $2.3M | 939,370 −9.5% 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.