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ROSS STORES, INC. [ROST]

Reporting date: 10/09/2025

⚠️ Bearish Insider Sale Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: BALMUTH MICHAEL; Brinkley Stephen C
  • Role: EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN; PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS
  • Company: ROSS STORES, INC. (ROST)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-10-08, 2025-10-09
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 6,820 shares
    • Average Sale Price: $142.49
    • Total Value: 6,820 * $142.49 ≈ ~$971,794
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: Balmuth: 59,503; Brinkley: 57,012
    • Indirect Holdings: None reported
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

    📄 Summary

    BALMUTH MICHAEL; Brinkley Stephen C, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN and PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS at ROSS STORES, INC. (ROST), mixed disposition of 6,820 shares on Oct 08–09, 2025, at an average price of $142.49, realizing proceeds of about ~$971,794. After the transactions, they now hold Balmuth: 59,503 direct shares; Brinkley: 57,012 direct shares. For retail traders, this is a neutral-to-slightly bearish event: modest profit-taking by a senior officer and a small bona fide gift.

    🔑 Interpretation

    • Type: Mixed — one open-market discretionary sale (code S) and one bona fide gift (code G).
    • Disposition: Brinkley’s shares were sold (sold immediately via open-market transaction); Balmuth’s shares were transferred as a gift (not a market sale).
    • Size Context: Combined dispositions equal 6,820 shares. Brinkley’s sale (6,437 shares) represents roughly ~10% of his pre-transaction holdings (notable profit-taking). Balmuth’s 383-share gift is immaterial relative to his holding.
    • ATH Metric: The large reported sale price ($150.97) and the weighted average (~$142.49) place these trades near recent trading levels, not obviously at extraordinary all-time highs or all-time lows. Without a live ATH/ATL lookup, this does not appear timed to an extreme price — more consistent with routine selling around normal market levels.
    • Outlier Check: The sale by the President, Operations is meaningful but not an extreme outlier for officer-level transactions; Balmuth’s gift is small and routine.

    📊 Bullish or Bearish?

    Bearish

    Bearish. The filing shows net dispositions (6,820 shares) including a material open‑market sale by the company’s President of Operations (code S) which indicates profit-taking; the gift (code G) is non‑economic and does not offset the sale signal. Data completeness is good for the reported transactions, but cluster activity cannot be determined from this filing alone.

    ✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

    This looks like routine profit-taking by a senior executive plus a small bona fide gift. For retail traders, it’s largely noise — not a clear short-/mid-term trade signal unless multiple insiders or additional large sales confirm a trend.