COO Puts $5M of His Own Money Into Uber

UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases totalling roughly $5.3M, with trades dated 4 September 2026. The filings show 54,325 shares bought at around $75.70, plus a further 15,675 shares at the same price. Discretionary C-level purchases at this size are among the strongest buy signals the insider register produces.

Uber's short interest sits at just 2.4% of free float, so this is not a short-squeeze story. It reads as straightforward conviction from a senior executive writing a personal cheque.

Elsewhere, Turkey's valve manufacturer Burçelik Vana (BURVA) saw a sharp split on 7 September. Chairman Umit Gumus filed a $12.9M purchase of 1.07 million shares on the same day that asset manager Bulls Portföy filed a $13.6M sale of a similar block. The divergence between a long-term controlling family buyer and an institutional seller exiting at the same price is a pattern worth watching.

JPMorgan also disclosed large reductions in several Hong Kong-listed technology names, including Kingdee International Software (268) and Sunny Optical (2382), shedding $85M and $71M respectively around 2 September. These are 5%-owner disclosures rather than executive trades and carry a different weight, but the timing across multiple names in the same week signals a deliberate rotation out of Hong Kong tech.

The vendor insider dataset covers non-US markets up to early September. US EDGAR filings were unavailable via this data layer.