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John Kachig Kibarian bought $1.1M of PDFS

PRESIDENT AND CEO at PDF SOLUTIONS INC. 50,000 shares at an average of $22.58, traded Feb 24, 2025, filed Feb 25, 2025.

Conviction score
58
Value
$1.1M
50,000 shares
Holdings after
2,522,756
+2% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $1.1M at market
    +25
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 2.0%
    0
  • Price context
    No price history yet
    0
  • Cluster
    2 insiders buying within 14 days
    +8
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

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 -8.7%, 3m -14.1%, 6m -8.8%.

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.

PDFSOct 9, 2026 · close 54.40
Since filing Feb 25, 2025: +147.6%SPY +33.6% · excess +114.0%

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 0001415889-25-005622, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Feb 24, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: By Trust
+34,356$22.80$783k2,507,112Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: By Trust
+15,644$22.11$346k2,522,756Feb 25, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at PDF SOLUTIONS INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
26Weak
PDFSsell
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Andrzej Strojwas
Chief Technology Officer
$151k
3,394 shares
-4%
45Moderate
PDFSbuy
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Michael B Gustafson
director
$146k
7,500 shares
+33%
38Weak
PDFSbuy 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Michael B Gustafson
director
$92k
4,000 shares
+22%
35Weak
PDFSsell 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Andrzej Strojwas
CTO
$190k
6,253 shares
-7%
34Weak
PDFSsell 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Andrzej Strojwas
CTO
$155k
5,030 shares
-5%
35Weak
PDFSsell 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Nancy Erba
director
$62k
2,000 shares
-13%

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.

John Kachig Kibarian bought $1.1M of PDFS | InsiderTell