David Altshuler - 26 Feb 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MA (VRTX)

Signature
/s/ Christiana Stevenson, Attorney-in-Fact
Issuer symbol
VRTX
Transactions as of
26 Feb 2025
Transactions value $
-$3,466,158
Form type
4
Filing time
28 Feb 2025, 16:23:32 UTC
Previous filing
26 Feb 2025
Next filing
05 Mar 2025

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction VRTX Common Stock Tax liability -$2.86M -5.95K -14.81% $479.61 34.2K 26 Feb 2025 Direct
transaction VRTX Common Stock Sale -$611K -1.27K -3.71% $480.00 33K 27 Feb 2025 Direct F1
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 Transaction made pursuant to Dr. Altshuler's company approved trading plan under Rule 10b5-1, which was entered into on 8/8/2024.