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Rise Gold Corp. [RYES]

Reporting date: 03/25/2025

⚠️ Bullish Insider Buy Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: Draguleasa Mihai
  • Role: Chief Financial Officer
  • Company: Rise Gold Corp. (RYES)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-03-25
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 60,000
    • Average Sale Price: $0.00
    • Total Value: $0.00
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 60,000
    • Indirect Holdings: 0
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

Draguleasa Mihai, Chief Financial Officer at Rise Gold Corp. (RYES), acquired 60,000 stock options on March 25, 2025, at an average price of $0.00, with total value not fully determinable. After the transaction, he/she/they now holds/hold 60,000 direct shares (derivative/options) and no indirect holdings. For retail traders, this is a bullish event: Compensation-related option grant, modestly bullish signal.

🔑 Interpretation

This filing records an acquisition (Form 4 code A) of stock options on the filing date, consistent with a compensation-related grant rather than an open-market purchase. The options were not sold immediately and are recorded as held following the transaction. Size is modest (60,000 options) and simply establishes post-transaction holdings; it appears to be routine comp-related granting rather than profit-taking. Without current market price data in the filing, it's not possible to confirm whether the transaction coincided with an all-time high or low; no obvious opportunistic timing can be inferred from this filing alone. The amount does not appear unusually large for an officer grant, though historical comparisons require prior filings.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Compensation-related (option grant)
  • Disposition: Held following acquisition (not sold immediately)
  • Size Context: 60,000 options is modest for an officer grant and represents the entirety of post-transaction holdings; looks like compensation, not profit-taking
  • ATH Metric: Cannot confirm exact all-time high/low without live market-price data; based on the filing alone there is no clear indication the grant occurred at an ATH or ATL or was timed opportunistically
  • Outlier Check: Not evidently unusually large compared to typical single-officer option grants; historical comparison requires past Form 4s

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Decide: Bullish

Bullish. The filing shows an acquisition (code A) of 60,000 options by the CFO, increasing his holdings to 60,000; this is consistent with a compensation grant rather than a sell-off. Data is limited to a single grant and lacks market-price context, so cluster activity cannot be determined from this filing alone.

✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

This transaction looks like a routine compensation-related option grant rather than a bearish signal. For retail traders, it’s noise — not a tradeable event on its own and not worth short-/mid-term action unless corroborated by significant sales or coordinated insider activity.