Corporate insiders were exceptionally quick to begin selling vast quantities of their companies’ stock as soon as 2025 began.
Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) senior officers, for example, dumped more than $40 million worth of TSLA shares by January 13. Simultaneously, Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations, Ajay K. Puri, executed one of the best-timed insider trades on record as he offloaded 36,695 NVDA shares at an average price of $151.10 – almost $2 above the chipmaker’s all-time high (ATH) closing price.
Another technology mainstay and prominent actor in the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR), was no laggard, as data from Finbold’s insider tracker revealed, and as many as five insiders had sold part of their stake by press time on January 17.
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Palantir insiders offload PLTR shares near yearly highs
The first Palantir officer to report a sale in 2025 was David Glazer. On January 2, Glazer began the sale that saw him raise $7 million by reducing his stake by a massive 96,273 shares.
Ryan Taylor, who also started selling on January 2, offloaded an even greater 483,987 PLTR shares, making a total of $36 million in the process.
The subsequent three sales, though smaller, are likewise noteworthy. To begin with, two out of the three were also undertaken on January 2, and the first of them, executed by Director Alexander Moore, featured 20,000 shares and raised $1.4 million.
Director Lauren Friedman Stat sold significantly fewer shares – 1,400 – but at an average price of $76.29 – nonetheless made a hefty $137,322.
Finally, the January 7 insider trade made by Director Alexandra Shiff was executed at a significantly lower average price of $71.63 but raised an impressive $286,540 as it involved 4,000 PLTR.
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Despite recent headwinds, Palantir remains a strong stock market performer
Most of the trades are interesting for two main reasons. The first of these is that Palantir insiders used the very first market day of 2025 to begin selling.
The second is that the sales were executed on the day that featured PLTR stock’s third-highest close of the year. Specifically, Palantir shares closed at $75.19 on January 2, went higher to $79.89 on the following day, and then had the final higher price at the closing bell on January 6 as they were changing hands at $75.92.
So far, apart from the spike on January 3, PLTR stock has been struggling in 2025 and is, at press time, 6.94% in the red year-to-date (YTD) at $70.38.
Despite the decline, it is worth pointing out that Palantir remains significantly higher compared to where it was one year ago. Indeed, PLTR shares are up 147.43% in the 6-month chart and an even greater 315.49% in the green in the last 12 months.
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