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David M Gordon sold $3.9M of CAKE

PRESIDENT at CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC. 76,878 shares at an average of $50.48, traded May 8, 2025, filed May 12, 2025.

Warning score
50
Value
$3.9M
76,878 shares
Holdings after
34,467
-69% from before
From 52-week low
+39%
low $34.89, close $48.57
From 52-week high
-12%
high $54.87, as of May 8, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    President
    +20
  • Trade size
    $3.9M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 69% of holdings
    +20
  • Cluster
    No other insider selling within 14 days
    0
  • 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 +10.2%, 3m +17.8%, 6m -11.2%.

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 May 12, 2025: +112.2%SPY +35.7% · excess +76.5%

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 0001415889-25-012644, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+16,600$47.06$781k65,519May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+10,000$46.03$460k75,519May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+30,000$40.16$1.2M105,519May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+5,826$34.91$203k111,345May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-16,600$50.44$837k94,745May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-10,000$50.44$504k84,745May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-30,000$50.44$1.5M54,745May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-5,826$50.44$294k48,919May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-14,452$50.68$732k34,467May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-16,600$0.00$00May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-10,000$0.00$013,400May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-30,000$0.00$031,040May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)derivative
-5,826$0.00$023,204May 12, 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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