TWST Twist Bioscience Corporation

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$188.05

Twist Bioscience Corporation (TWST) Insider Activity

What the officers, directors and large holders did with their own shares. Only open-market purchases and sales count toward the totals — grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and they're listed separately below.

Insider signal Bearish Selling ran elevated versus TWST's own trailing one-year pace, with 99% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 8 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
4
30 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$58.1M
367,937 shares
Net activity
-$58.1M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 99% planned / 1% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $57.3M 23 transactions · 361,749 shares
Discretionary sales $858.6K 7 transactions · 6,188 shares

Largest single sale: $36.7M.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

No open-market insider purchase on record.

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
Leproust Emily M. 10 fills Chief Executive Officer Sell 10b5-1 5,203 $177.38 $922.9K 616,417 −0.8% of holding
Leproust Emily M. Chief Executive Officer Sell 1,687 $165.49 $279.2K 618,902 −0.3% of holding
Cho Dennis See Remarks Sell 348 $165.49 $57.6K 73,303 −0.5% of holding
Green Paula SVP of Human Resources Sell 294 $165.49 $48.7K 116,720 −0.3% of holding
Leproust Emily M. 13 fills Chief Executive Officer Sell 10b5-1 356,546 $157.99 $56.3M 974,695 −26.8% of holding
Leproust Emily M. Chief Executive Officer Sell 2,302 $122.62 $282.3K 768,427 −0.3% of holding
Green Paula SVP of Human Resources Sell 907 $122.62 $111.2K 117,014 −0.8% of holding
Cho Dennis See Remarks Sell 412 $122.62 $50.5K 73,651 −0.6% of holding
WERNER ROBERT F. Chief Accounting Officer Sell 238 $122.62 $29.2K 44,399 −0.5% of holding

Form 4s are due within two business days of a transaction, so this is close to real time — unlike the quarterly 13F data on the Institutional tab. A single large sale often reflects a prearranged 10b5-1 plan rather than a fresh view, so read a pattern of sales rather than any one of them.