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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 22
Cytokinetics CEO Sells 7,500 Shares for $575,700 After Exercising $10.60 Options
Updated
Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 22

Cytokinetics CEO Sells 7,500 Shares for $575,700 After Exercising $10.60 Options

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 22

Summary

  • $575,700 of Cytokinetics stock was sold by CEO Robert Blum on Aug. 10 after he exercised 7,500 options and immediately sold the shares at a weighted average $76.76.
  • The transaction locked in gains from a $10.60 strike price while leaving Blum with 377,820 directly held shares, 4,166 indirectly held shares and about 172,000 derivative securities.
  • Cytokinetics had a market value of about $9.6 billion on the transaction date, but its financial profile remained lossmaking, with roughly $71 million in trailing revenue against a net loss near $894 million.
  • The biotech markets MYQORZO for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and is still investing heavily in pipeline candidates including aficamten and omecamtiv mecarbil.

Insights

Why is Cytokinetics' CEO cashing out shares just months before a critical FDA decision for their breakthrough cardiac drug?
Can Cytokinetics' surging cardiac drug sales outpace its massive $894 million net loss before cash reserves run dry?