TWST Twist Bioscience Corporation

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$127.22

Twist Bioscience Corporation (TWST) 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 TWST's own trailing one-year pace, with 86% 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
7
26 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$23.0M
177,312 shares
Net activity
-$23.0M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 86% planned / 14% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $19.9M 14 transactions · 154,082 shares
Discretionary sales $3.1M 12 transactions · 23,230 shares

Largest single sale: $3.9M.

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
Leproust Emily M. Chief Executive Officer Sell 2,302 $122.62 $282.3K 768,427 −0.3% of holding
Green Paula SVP of Human Resources Sell 907 $122.62 $111.2K 117,014 −0.8% of holding
Cho Dennis See Remarks Sell 412 $122.62 $50.5K 73,651 −0.6% of holding
WERNER ROBERT F. Chief Accounting Officer Sell 238 $122.62 $29.2K 44,399 −0.5% of holding
Leproust Emily M. 5 fills Chief Executive Officer Sell 10b5-1 41,570 $151.98 $6.3M 799,651 −4.9% of holding
WERNER ROBERT F. Chief Accounting Officer Sell 854 $140.77 $120.2K 44,637 −1.9% of holding
Leproust Emily M. Chief Executive Officer Sell 6,639 $139.07 $923.3K 812,299 −0.8% of holding
Finn Patrick John President and COO Sell 4,046 $139.07 $562.7K 210,802 −1.9% of holding
Laponis Adam Chief Financial Officer Sell 1,965 $139.07 $273.3K 108,633 −1.8% of holding
Cho Dennis See Remarks Sell 1,598 $139.07 $222.2K 74,063 −2.1% of holding
Green Paula SVP of Human Resources Sell 1,360 $139.07 $189.1K 117,921 −1.1% of holding
WERNER ROBERT F. Chief Accounting Officer Sell 669 $139.07 $93.0K 45,491 −1.4% of holding
Cho Dennis See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 14,205 $129.75 $1.8M 75,661 −15.8% of holding
Finn Patrick John 7 fills President and COO Sell 10b5-1 78,355 $117.64 $9.2M 259,679 −23.2% 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.