觀點金融市場

Lax rules are allowing corporate fat cats to dump stock

US financial regulator should crack down to prevent selling just before share prices fall

Company founders and executives are hearing the jingle of cold hard cash this holiday season.

Profiting from a historic run up in share prices, US corporate insiders sold a record $69bn in shares this year, up 30 per cent from 2020, and 79 per cent more than the 10-year average. Almost 50 of these corporate bigwigs have pocketed more than $200m each.

They are certainly in the money, but are they also in the know? Some of them say they are diversifying their holdings; others are seeking to avoid rising state tax levies or fear that US tax rates will increase next year. Such insider selling is also a red flag at a time when soaring indices mask the fact that more than 1,380 companies are trading at or near 12-month lows.

您已閱讀14%(726字),剩餘86%(4577字)包含更多重要資訊,訂閱以繼續探索完整內容,並享受更多專屬服務。
版權聲明:本文版權歸FT中文網所有,未經允許任何單位或個人不得轉載,複製或以任何其他方式使用本文全部或部分,侵權必究。
設置字型大小×
最小
較小
默認
較大
最大
分享×