Capital Punishment: Trading Insiders

By Daniel Joshua Rubin – Updated Apr 6, 2017 at 10:36AM

NASDAQ: GOOGL

Alphabet

Market Cap

$2.0T

Today's Change

(1.32%) $2.17

Current Price

$166.13

Price as of May 16, 2025, 3:58 p.m. ET

Insiders have sold record levels of stock of late.

In today's comic, Fool contributor Daniel Joshua Rubin takes on recent studies that show record levels of insider selling, including large numbers of shares being sold by executives at leading tech companies Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN).

The artist, regretfully, owns no shares in any of the companies mentioned. Google is a Motley Fool Inside Value selection and a Motley Fool Rule Breakers recommendation. Apple and Amazon.com are Motley Fool Stock Advisor picks. The Fool owns shares of Apple and Google. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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