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Matthew Eliot Clark sold $2.6M of CAKE

EXEC VP, CFO at CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC. 48,000 shares at an average of $53.74, traded Feb 27, 2025, filed Feb 28, 2025.

Warning score
60
Value
$2.6M
48,000 shares
Holdings after
39,856
-96% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    CFO
    +22
  • Trade size
    $2.6M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 96% of holdings
    +20
  • Cluster
    2 insiders selling within 14 days
    +8
  • Exercise and sell
    Shares came from an option exercise in the same filing
    -15

What happened after comparable sells

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

This signal so far: 1m -7.6%, 3m +3.2%, 6m +15.4%.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

CAKEOct 9, 2026 · close 108.45
Since filing Feb 28, 2025: +107.4%SPY +33.5% · excess +73.9%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001415889-25-006064, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Feb 27, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-10,000$53.67$537k39,856Feb 28, 2025
Feb 27, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+38,000$47.06$1.8M77,856Feb 28, 2025
Feb 27, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-19,000$53.51$1.0M58,856Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-19,000$54.00$1.0M39,856Feb 28, 2025
Feb 27, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-38,000$0.00$00Feb 28, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
42Moderate
CAKEsell 5
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Janice L. Meyer
director
$214k
1,958 shares
-8%
15Weak
CAKEbuy
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Edie A Ames
director
$25k
500 shares
+4%
49Moderate
CAKEsell 8
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Edie A Ames
director
$321k
3,000 shares
-23%
65Notable
CAKEsell 8
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
David M Gordon
PRESIDENT
$3.5M
31,950 shares
-54%
30Weak
CAKEsell 8
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Alexander L Cappello
director
$6,789
64 shares
-2%
80Strong
CAKEsell 8
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
David Overton
CHAIRMAN AND C.E.O.
$10M
94,145 shares
-51%
53Moderate
CAKEsell 7
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Alexander L Cappello
director
$229k
2,254 shares
-37%
62Notable
CAKEsell 7
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Scarlett May
EVP, GENERAL COUNSEL
$819k
7,978 shares
-30%
67Notable
CAKEsell 7
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Matthew Eliot Clark
EXEC VP, CFO
$6.8M
68,900 shares
-60%
55Moderate
CAKEsell 7
CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
Ashley W Hanscom
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER
$350k
3,500 shares
-32%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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