When Good News Looks Like a Red Flag
Let’s be honest. When you hear a CEO is offloading millions of pounds worth of their own company’s stock, your first instinct is to run for the hills. It feels like the captain quietly lowering himself into a lifeboat while telling the passengers the voyage is going splendidly. We’ve been trained to see insider selling as the ultimate red flag, a sign that the party is well and truly over.
And yet, in the world of Artificial Intelligence, something rather peculiar is happening. We see executives at the top of their game, like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, selling shares through pre-planned programmes. But instead of a corporate death spiral, we see the very same companies securing new, lucrative deals and expanding their reach. To me, this isn’t a signal to panic. It’s a sign of something far more interesting, a signal of maturity. It’s the behaviour of someone who has baked an astonishingly successful cake and now fancies selling a few slices to, you know, buy a house.