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Michael B Gustafson bought $146k of PDFS

director at PDF SOLUTIONS INC. 7,500 shares at an average of $19.45, traded May 13, 2025, filed May 14, 2025.

Conviction score
45
Value
$146k
7,500 shares
Holdings after
30,074
+33% from before
From 52-week low
+18%
low $16.41, close $19.41
From 52-week high
-42%
high $33.26, as of May 13, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $146k at market
    +11
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 33%
    +6
  • Price context
    42% below the 52-week high
    +8
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • Repeat buying
    2 buys in 90 days
    +5
  • 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 -2.6%, 3m +1.0%, 6m +30.6%.

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 12, 2026 · close 52.69
Since filing May 14, 2025: +164.9%SPY +34.6% · excess +130.3%

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 0001415889-25-012951, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 13, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+7,500$19.45$146k30,074May 14, 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%
23Weak
PDFSsell
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Shuo Zhang
director
$77k
1,501 shares
-6%
38Weak
PDFSbuy 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Michael B Gustafson
director
$92k
4,000 shares
+22%
58Moderate
PDFSbuy 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
John Kachig Kibarian
PRESIDENT AND CEO
$1.1M
50,000 shares
+2%
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%
37Weak
PDFSsell
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Shuo Zhang
director
$191k
5,500 shares
-35%
56Moderate
PDFSsell
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Adnan Raza
EVP, FINANCE AND CFO
$932k
27,494 shares
-36%
48Moderate
PDFSsell 2
PDF SOLUTIONS INC
Ye Jane Li
director
$373k
11,184 shares
-48%

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.

Michael B Gustafson bought $146k of PDFS | InsiderTell