Carmen Bozic - Oct 17, 2023 Form 4 Insider Report for VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MA (VRTX)

Signature
/s/ Christiana Stevenson, Attorney-in-Fact
Stock symbol
VRTX
Transactions as of
Oct 17, 2023
Transactions value $
-$2,109,236
Form type
4
Date filed
10/19/2023, 04:18 PM
Previous filing
Oct 5, 2023
Next filing
Nov 2, 2023

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction VRTX Common Stock Sale -$2.11M -5.65K -12.22% $373.25 40.6K Oct 17, 2023 Direct F1
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 Transaction made pursuant to Dr. Bozic's company approved trading plan under Rule 10b5-1, which was entered into on 05/30/2023.