Executives and board members often make trades involving their company stock holdings, but making sense of the transactions can sometimes be a tall task.
For the first time in nearly two decades running JPMorgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon will voluntarily sell stock in the bank. The disclosure, in a securities filing Friday, detailed next year's planned sales — pressuring JPMorgan shares and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and highlighting why tracking trades made by executives involving the companies they lead should be an important part of every investor's homework.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. says the new U.K. government should be "given the benefit of the doubt."and highlighting why tracking trades made by executives involving the companies they lead should be an important part of every investor's homework. Dimon is setting up the trades through a predetermined plan that executives at publicly traded companies use to protect against insider trading accusations. It will mark the first time that the 67-year-old CEO has offloaded shares of JPMorgan for non-technical reasons, such as exercising options.
The planned sales – amounting to roughly 12% of the JPMorgan stock owned by Dimon and his family – are being done for tax planning and personal wealth diversification reasons, the bank said. Both are common reasons for executives to sell stock in their firms. The bank also said Dimon continues to believe JPMorgan's prospects are "very strong," and his planned trades are not related in any way to succession. Such sales are often seen when CEOs get close to retirement.
Fears of a weakening global economy sent stocks into a tailspin in early 2016, driving shares of JPMorgan down nearly 20% and theThe trajectory of the market changed just six weeks into the new year. That's when Dimon disclosed — after the closing bell on Feb. 11, 2016 — that he bought 500,000 shares of the bank, worth about $26 million at the time., intended to show confidence in the financial sector, has become legendary on Wall Street.
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