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01/08/20

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Originally posted by Andredamus1: ↑

There has been a lot written about how the sale of founding directors shares should be viewed by the market. A favourite expression by those who believe that it should be viewed negatively is that "directors are dumping stock on unwitting bag holders". I thought it was worthwhile testing this thesis in relation to the shares sold by Afterpay's founders since their first sale in 2018. A history of share sales undertaken by the founders is as follows (noting that the 2 founders have to date always sold completely in unison - amount and price):

May 2018 - 5,000,000 shares sold @ $6.94
June 2019 - 4,100,000 shares sold @ $23.00
July 2020 - 4,090,000 shares sold @ $66.00

So after starting out with 25m shares each, the founders are now holding 18.4m shares each (valued at $2.5b based on Friday's closing price). Moreover, based on the current share price, the founders have transferred $407m in value from themselves to the "unwitting bag holders". Seems like a pretty good deal for the bag holders from where I'm sitting.

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APT Price at posting: $68.54 Sentiment: Hold Disclosure: Held
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