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KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/ [KEQU]

Reporting date: 10/09/2025

⚠️ Neutral Insider Sale Detected

📝 What Happened

  • Insider: Gardner Donald T. III
  • Role: Chief Financial Officer (Officer)
  • Company: KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/ (KEQU)
  • Transaction Date(s): 2025-10-09
  • Table I (Non-Derivative Securities)
    • Sale : 3,000
    • Average Sale Price: $42.76
    • Total Value: 3,000 * $42.76 = $128,280.00
    • Post-Transaction Direct Holdings: 11,564
    • Indirect Holdings: None
    • 10b5-1 Plan Used? No

📄 Summary

Gardner Donald T. III, Chief Financial Officer (Officer) at KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP /DE/ (KEQU), sold 3,000 shares on October 9, 2025, at an average price of $42.76, realizing proceeds of about ~$128,280.00. After the transaction, he now holds 11,564 direct shares and no indirect holdings. For retail traders, this is a neutral-to-slightly bearish event: Small single sale by CFO; likely routine liquidity, not strong signal.

🔑 Interpretation

  • Type: Discretionary (open-market sale, not a compensation grant)
  • Disposition: Sold immediately (S code; footnote indicates multiple open-market executions)
  • Size Context: Moderate — the 3,000-share sale represents about ~20.6% of pre-sale holdings (pre-sale ~14,564 shares). This looks like routine profit-taking rather than a complete divestment.
  • ATH Metric: Using recent market context (sale at $42.76, roughly in-line with a recent ~$43 reference price), the sale occurred at-market and is not clearly timed at an all-time high or low. There is no strong indication this was opportunistic relative to historical ATH/ATL based on the available price point.
  • Outlier Check: Not obviously an outlier — single moderate sale by the CFO; no unusually large block or pattern visible in this single filing.

📊 Bullish or Bearish?

Neutral

Neutral. A single open-market sale (code S) by the CFO for ~$128k of proceeds and no 10b5-1 plan suggests routine liquidity/profit-taking rather than negative information. The filing is complete for this transaction but limited — 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 multiple insiders or senior leadership selling.