Asia-Pacific now has a newly reporting executive at the $222 billion industrial gas giant, which means every future buy or sell he makes in the stock becomes public. Form 3 filings like this one are the starting gun for tracking insider conviction at one of the sector's largest operators.
Latest Activity
- GOOGLAlphabet Inc. - Class A Common Stock (GOOGL)Partial sell$1K – $15KAug 27
- AMCRState Street Bank & Trust Co. Amcor plc Ordinary Shares (AMCR)Partial sell$1K – $15KAug 10
- JNJKean Family Partnership Johnson & Johnson Common Stock (JNJ)Partial sell$1K – $15KAug 27
- LINState Street Bank & Trust Co. Linde plc - Ordinary Shares (LIN)Buy$1K – $15KAug 10
- MTZKean Family Partnership MasTec, Inc. Common Stock (MTZ)Buy$1K – $15KAug 21
- MSFTKean Family Partnership Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT)Partial sell$15K – $50KAug 27
Kean trimmed megacap tech on the same August day, with the Microsoft sale the largest line in the filing, and rotated the proceeds toward industrial gas and infrastructure names. Disclosed 33 days after the trades, so the rotation out of Big Tech and into picks-and-shovels was already done before anyone could see it.
- 2LINLinde$1.60/sh$738M
- 3NTESNetEase$0.48/sh$307M
- 4PFGPrincipal Financial Group$0.84/sh$180M
- 5RGPResources Connection$0.07/sh$2.4M
Qualcomm is sending shareholders about $983 million, or 92 cents a share, with the money landing September 24. Linde follows with roughly $738 million at $1.60 a share, paid September 17.
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