| Type | Sym | Class | Transaction | Value $ | Shares | Change % | * Price $ | Shares After | Date | Ownership | Footnotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| transaction | BLFS | Common Stock | Sale | -$3.55K | -190 | -0.04% | $18.71 | 455K | May 15, 2023 | Direct | F1 |
| transaction | BLFS | Common Stock | Sale | -$701K | -33.3K | -7.33% | $21.04 | 421K | May 17, 2023 | Direct | F2, F3 |
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).
| Id | Content |
|---|---|
| F1 | The sale reported herein was made to satisfy tax withholding obligations in connection with the vesting of shares of restricted stock granted on February 8, 2021. |
| F2 | The sales reported were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 (c) trading plan adopted by the reporting person effective as of 09-14-2022. |
| F3 | The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $21.00 to $21.18, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the registrant, any security holder of the registrant, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range. |