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Top Insider Transactions Update: $108 Million In Purchases On $706 Million In Sales, Gates Unloads Over $300 MM In MSFT
Courtesy of Finviz, the latest top insider transactions indicate that the increasingly artificial equity market still provides a very good opportunity for insiders who are looking for overeager momentum chasers and those managing idiot money for the likes of Fidelity, Putnam et al who read and do whatever reports by Goldmand and Bernstein tell them to do, to gobble up insider shares at ridiculous market valuations. Case in point: Mr. Bill Gates, who is so thrilled about the early sales performance of Windows 7 he can't wait to offload that equity exposure on unwitting non-insiders.
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I cannot imagine that Bill Gates has anymore vested interest in MSFT than I do... except for the financial one he's trying to diversify away.
Chances are, Bill and Melinda will likely be in line behind Buffett buying Burlington Northern stock.
I believe he owns CSX, CNI, and BRK.
These 2009 inside sellers have left a shidload of money on the table.
Bill has been dumping his shares for 9 or 10 months now. No news here.
It has been the same selling program for many years actually.
Windows 7 and its predecessor Vista were just attempts by M$FT to command and control their ability to get paid. Windows 2000 Professional is built on the same built-to-crash random allocation of memory (think no stop signs, no speed limits, drive and park anywhere)and will do anything that these newbies can. It's like I-80 to get you cross-country but now you must buy Disneyland roadsigns and endure photo-surveillance apparatus on the poles to count and credit your access, while they care only enough that you won't notice that you must adapt and pay with time or treasure for training to make it happen for them. If your legacy apps don't work, tough tittie said the momma kitty. Someday they masses will wake up and throw off the chains of monopoly, but no one went broke underestimating the intelligence of the auto-entitled American public.
Gates' sales were 10B5-1 planned dispositions. Nothing to see there.
check out SSRN for the latest literature on planned insider sales.
it turns out, they have negative forward price implications.
There are some serious errors in this data set. The price per share in at least a few of the buys is off by a factor of 100. You might want to consider another data source that knows where to put the decimal point.
I'm with Anal_yst. Planned distributions in accordance with his agreement.
Nothing screams conspiracy like a pre-planned sale.
Now at least the Gates has enough money to stop putting that chili bowl on his head and get a decent haircut.
The only thing that mama's boy ever did was use his daddy's money to buy cash strapped inventors technology and run competitors out of business. With out daddy's money... the Gates would not even be a Harvard drop out...His only talent is for being a conniving dick.
I see idiots like Lauer don't even interview the Gates anymore when Today has some idiot story on tech of the future... In the 90s I would see him being interviewed with some crackpot idea for the future which was stupid in 1998 and sounds even more Gates-retard-like today.
I have an answer for Windows 7... Load Linux and screw the Gates...
You touched on Gates Sr., and that should include mention of the tremendous legal and lobbying efforts behind MSFT's forays, notwithstanding buying (so-called) tech journalists and cornering the market on astro-turfers.
I could go on, but Microsoft has cost the planet untold billions, perhaps in the trillion dollar range, of business/government/private losses due to downtime/loss of data/non-backward compatibility of data, and on and on...
Thanks for the info Big Red.
Old man Gates managed a rather large trust, correct? To me Billy Jr. never has been much more than a big money backed dick opportunist... with a chili bowl haircut.
The only MS product I still use is excel at work where I cannot avoid the windows operating system. However, I always partition for Linux. I just don't like the functionality of Open Office spreadsheet.
As for the cumulative loses... the classic American Corporate Oligarchy/Monopoly Model. Less output, poorer quality, at higher prices. What more could you want?