On June 30, Cerebras Systems declined 5.63% in pre-market trading, trading at approximately $204.24/share, with turnover of $22.14 million. The pullback follows a newly disclosed Form 4 filing revealing executive share sales, combined with profit-taking pressure after a sharp two-day rebound.
According to the latest SEC filing, Chief Operating Officer Dhiraj Mallick net sold approximately 36,131 shares of common stock on June 25. Specifically, he converted 69,445 shares of Class B common stock into Class A shares on a 1:1 basis, then sold approximately 105,576 Class A shares in multiple transactions — of which roughly 69,445 were passive sell-to-cover dispositions for tax withholding obligations, with the remainder constituting active reduction. Post-transaction, he retains approximately 33,314 Class A shares and roughly 689,696 unconverted Class B shares.
The stock had rallied approximately 18% over the prior two trading sessions following a 25%-plus sell-off triggered by Q2 gross margin guidance of just 36%-38% in its inaugural post-IPO earnings report. Multiple investment banks including UBS (target raised to $320) and Wedbush (target raised to $280) had supported the rebound, but the insider selling signal appears to have prompted a reassessment of near-term valuation.
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