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
4
5 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$2.8M
5,485 shares
Net activity
-$2.8M
purchases less sales

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

10b5-1 plan sales $2.8M 5 transactions · 5,485 shares
Discretionary sales $0 0 transactions · 0 shares

Largest single sale: $799.8K.

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

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.