Executives Buy In, Others Cash Out

Insider activity over the past month reveals a sharp split between aggressive buyers and high-profile sellers.

The standout buying story is AVO — Mission Produce. A 10% owner, GlobalHarvest Holdings, filed purchases totalling over $35M across four separate transactions in early July. That kind of persistent, multi-day accumulation is rare. A director, Bruce Taylor, added another $3.2M in June.

HDSN — Hudson Technologies — saw Hartree Partners file three consecutive buys in late June and early July, totalling nearly $4.5M. Refrigerant stocks have been in focus, and this pattern of repeat buying signals conviction from a major shareholder.

On the sell side, ASTS CEO Abel Avellan filed a $146.7M disposal — 2.5 million shares — in late June. That's the single largest executive sale in the dataset. NVDA director Mark Stevens filed two tranches totalling $186M around the same period.

AMAT CEO Gary Dickerson filed a $35.2M sale in early July. Meanwhile, MS CFO Sharon Yeshaya and a division head filed combined sales of over $5.7M on the same week results were reported.

The buyer-seller imbalance leans heavily toward selling at the executive level — but the Mission Produce cluster stands out as a genuine vote of confidence from insiders closest to the business.