Two contrasting signals emerged from insider filings this week. Bill Gates has been steadily loading up on RSG — Republic Services — in a major way.
Filings show Gates bought RSG shares across 37 separate transactions between August 10 and August 21. The total spent: $434.7 million. Each purchase was at prices between $214 and $223 per share. That is a relentless, disciplined buying campaign from one of the world's most closely watched investors. Republic Services is a US waste management giant. Gates has long held the stock. But this scale of accumulation is notable.
On the selling side, DHR CEO Rainer Blair filed sales totalling $12.7 million on August 21. Three separate transactions were reported on August 24. Blair is President and CEO of Danaher Corporation, a life sciences and diagnostics firm. The sales came in at roughly $218–$219 per share.
Elsewhere, GH Co-CEO Amirali Talasaz sold $6.3 million in Guardant Health stock, also filed August 24. FANG CEO Matthew Van't Hof sold nearly in Diamondback Energy on August 20. Meanwhile, Kura Oncology founder and CEO Troy Wilson went the other way — in shares on August 24, a signal of personal confidence in the oncology biotech.
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