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KORN FERRY [KFY]

Reporting date: 10/09/2025

⚠️ Neutral Insider Sale Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: BURNISON GARY D
  • Role: CEO
  • Company: KORN FERRY (KFY)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-10-09
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 16,864
    • Average Sale Price: $70.0092
    • Total Value: $1,180,635.19
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 198,442
    • Indirect Holdings: None reported
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

BURNISON GARY D, CEO at KORN FERRY (KFY), sold 16,864 shares on October 9, 2025, at an average price of $70.01, realizing proceeds of about ~$1,180,635. After the transaction, he now holds 198,442 direct shares and no indirect holdings. For retail traders, this is a neutral-to-slightly-bearish event: modest, routine CEO profit-taking; not a strong negative signal.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Discretionary sale (transaction code S; not reported as a 10b5-1 plan)
  • Disposition: Shares were sold / disposed of (executed in multiple trades on the reported date)
  • Size Context: The sale of 16,864 shares represents roughly ~7.8% of pre-sale holdings (about 215,306 pre-sale) — a modest reduction consistent with routine profit-taking rather than a wholesale exit.
  • ATH Metric: The weighted-average sale price ($70.01) is in line with recent trading levels and does not appear to be at an obvious all-time high or all-time low. Using the sale price as a near‑term reference (yesterday's market levels were approximately similar), the timing does not look opportunistically tied to ATH/ATL extremes.
  • Outlier Check: This transaction is not unusually large for a CEO-level holder given the remaining direct stake (198k shares). Without a full review of prior Form 4 history, we cannot definitively flag it as an outlier, but it appears routine in size.

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Neutral

Neutral. The filing shows a single, modest CEO sale (code S) at a market-level weighted average price; the insider retains a large direct stake and the trade appears consistent with routine profit-taking. Data completeness is good for this event, but cluster activity cannot be determined from this filing alone.

✅ Bottom Line (Retail Takeaway)

This transaction looks like routine profit-taking rather than a bearish signal. For retail traders, it’s noise, not a tradeable event — not worth short-/mid-term action unless corroborated by additional significant insider sales from multiple executives.