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Michael R Hayden bought $478k of IONS

director at IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC. 15,000 shares at an average of $31.86, traded May 1, 2025, filed May 2, 2025.

Conviction score
43
Value
$478k
15,000 shares
Holdings after
50,219
+43% from before
From 52-week low
+24%
low $25.51, close $31.71
From 52-week high
-26%
high $42.76, as of May 1, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $478k at market
    +18
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 43%
    +6
  • Price context
    26% below the 52-week high
    +4
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • 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.

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.

IONSOct 9, 2026 · close 45.28
Since filing May 2, 2025: +38.1%SPY +39.7% · excess -1.5%

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 0000874015-25-000125, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 1, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+15,000$31.86$478k50,219May 2, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
20Weak
IONSsell10b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Brian Birchler
EVP, Corp and Development Ops
$609k
8,000 shares
-14%
23Weak
IONSsell 210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Brian Birchler
EVP, Corp and Development Ops
$1.7M
23,900 shares
-35%
13Weak
IONSsell 210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Joseph Baroldi
EVP, Chief Business Officer
$113k
1,625 shares
-5%
23Weak
IONSsell 210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Joseph Baroldi
EVP, Chief Business Officer
$1.0M
15,000 shares
-32%
5Weak
IONSsell 1210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Patrick R. O'Neil
EVP CLO & General Counsel
$110k
1,700 shares
-3%
26Weak
IONSsell 1210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Joseph Baroldi
EVP, Chief Business Officer
$743k
11,950 shares
-27%
30Weak
IONSsell 1210b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Patrick R. O'Neil
EVP CLO & General Counsel
$1.4M
21,000 shares
-27%
25Weak
IONSsell 1310b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
C Frank Bennett
EVP, Chief Scientific Officer
$358k
6,000 shares
-7%
0Weak
IONSsell 1310b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Joseph Baroldi
EVP, Chief Business Officer
$16k
250 shares
-1%
30Weak
IONSsell 1310b5-1
IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
C Frank Bennett
EVP, Chief Scientific Officer
$2.3M
38,909 shares
-42%

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 R Hayden bought $478k of IONS | InsiderTell