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Alkermes plc. [ALKS]

Reporting date: 10/08/2025

⚠️ Neutral Insider Buy Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: Reed Joshua
  • Role: SVP, Chief Financial Officer
  • Company: Alkermes plc. (ALKS)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-10-08
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 195,399
    • Average Sale Price: $0.00
    • Total Value: $0.00
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 195,399
    • Indirect Holdings: None reported
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

Reed Joshua, SVP, Chief Financial Officer at Alkermes plc. (ALKS), acquired 195,399 ordinary shares on October 08, 2025, at a reported price of $0.00, for a total cost of about ~$0. After the transaction, he now holds 195,399 direct shares. For retail traders, this is a neutral event: Compensation awards vesting rather than a market-timed purchase.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Comp-related (codes show acquisitions of options and RSU awards, not open-market purchases)
  • Disposition: Shares/options were acquired (awarded/exercisable units); not sold immediately.
  • Size Context: The grant totals 195,399 underlying shares — a moderate compensation award for a senior executive; appears to be routine grant/vesting rather than large profit-taking.
  • ATH Metric: There is no indication in this filing that the awards were timed to an all-time high or low. Using recent trading as a reference, this looks like routine comp-related activity and not opportunistic timing around historical highs or lows.
  • Outlier Check: Not unusually large for a single grant to a CFO; without historical Form 4s for this insider in this dataset, it does not appear to be an outlier.

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Neutral.

Neutral. The filing shows code "A" acquisitions (options and RSUs) at $0.00 — typical compensation awards rather than discretionary open-market buys; therefore it carries limited informational value about the insider's market view. Cluster activity cannot be determined from this filing alone.

✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

This transaction looks like routine, comp-related awards/vesting rather than a market-timed purchase. For retail traders, it’s noise — not a tradeable signal on its own unless corroborated by open-market buys from multiple insiders or by other material company developments.