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Josh Silverman sold $4.5M of ETSY

Chief Executive Officer at ETSY INC. 70,000 shares at an average of $65.00, traded Sep 18, 2025, filed Sep 19, 2025.

Warning score
35
Value
$4.5M
70,000 shares
Holdings after
62,674
-53% from before
From 52-week low
+59%
low $40.80, close $64.85
From 52-week high
-7%
high $70.09, as of Sep 18, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $4.5M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 53% 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
  • 10b5-1 plan
    Pre-scheduled under a 10b5-1 plan
    -20

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.

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.

ETSYOct 9, 2026 · close 76.71
Since filing Sep 19, 2025: +18.0%SPY +18.6% · excess -0.5%

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 0001525358-25-000003, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Sep 18, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock10b5-1
+70,000$10.62$743k132,674Sep 19, 2025
Sep 18, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock10b5-1
-70,000$65.00$4.5M62,674Sep 19, 2025
Sep 18, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)derivative10b5-1
-70,000$0.00$01,145,616Sep 19, 2025

Related signals

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

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
0Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Josh Silverman
Chief Executive Officer
$28k
383 shares
-0%
40Moderate
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Merilee Buckley
CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER
$100k
1,396 shares
-100%
34Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Richard Edward Colburn III
Chief Product & Tech Officer
$319k
4,472 shares
-41%
6Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Josh Silverman
Chief Executive Officer
$151k
2,090 shares
-1%
28Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Richard Edward Colburn III
Chief Product & Tech Officer
$239k
2,913 shares
-31%
35Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Frederick R Wilson
director
$1.6M
20,000 shares
-5%
20Weak
ETSYsell 310b5-1
ETSY INC
Josh Silverman
Chief Executive Officer
$1.1M
13,367 shares
-5%
50Moderate
ETSYsell 3
ETSY INC
Charles Andrew Ballard
director
$100k
1,790 shares
-31%
53Moderate
ETSYsell 410b5-1
ETSY INC
Charles Baker
Chief Financial Officer
$411k
7,638 shares
-55%
51Moderate
ETSYsell 4
ETSY INC
Richard Edward Colburn III
Chief Product & Tech Officer
$130k
2,500 shares
-30%

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.

Josh Silverman sold $4.5M of ETSY | InsiderTell