VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

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$513.26

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX) 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 Subdued Selling ran below VRTX's own trailing one-year pace, with 100% 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
6
16 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$12.5M
27,198 shares
Net activity
-$12.5M
purchases less sales

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

10b5-1 plan sales $12.5M 16 transactions · 27,198 shares
Discretionary sales $0 0 transactions · 0 shares

Largest single sale: $3.1M.

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
McKechnie Duncan EVP, Chief Commercial Officer Sell 10b5-1 1,541 $519.00 $799.8K 11,001 −12.3% of holding
Tatsis Ourania EVP, Chief Reg. & Quality Off. Sell 10b5-1 1,500 $524.99 $787.5K 45,321 −3.2% of holding
Liu Joy EVP and Chief Legal Officer Sell 10b5-1 828 $502.71 $416.2K 19,131 −4.1% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 596 $482.50 $287.6K 15,337 −3.7% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 1,020 $462.17 $471.4K 15,933 −6% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 4,062 $450.00 $1.8M 16,953 −19.3% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 1,745 $450.00 $785.3K 21,015 −7.7% of holding
Liu Joy EVP and Chief Legal Officer Sell 10b5-1 828 $439.91 $364.2K 19,959 −4% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 1,974 $450.00 $888.3K 22,760 −8% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 1,354 $453.45 $614.0K 24,734 −5.2% of holding
Bunnage Mark E. EVP, Chief Scientific Officer Sell 10b5-1 33 $453.45 $15.0K 7,284 −0.5% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 6,988 $450.00 $3.1M 26,088 −21.1% of holding
Bhatia Sangeeta N. Director Sell 10b5-1 318 $423.73 $134.7K 4,924 −6.1% of holding
Liu Joy EVP and Chief Legal Officer Sell 10b5-1 1,104 $425.02 $469.2K 20,729 −5.1% of holding
Liu Joy EVP and Chief Legal Officer Sell 10b5-1 978 $449.17 $439.3K 21,833 −4.3% of holding
Bozic Carmen EVP and CMO Sell 10b5-1 2,329 $450.95 $1.1M 33,076 −6.6% 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.