David Altshuler - Feb 24, 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MA (VRTX)

Signature
/s/ Christiana Stevenson, Attorney-in-Fact
Stock symbol
VRTX
Transactions as of
Feb 24, 2025
Transactions value $
-$2,326,950
Form type
4
Date filed
2/26/2025, 04:04 PM
Previous filing
Feb 24, 2025
Next filing
Feb 28, 2025

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction VRTX Common Stock Tax liability -$1.92M -3.97K -8.82% $483.28 41K Feb 24, 2025 Direct
transaction VRTX Common Stock Sale -$408K -848 -2.07% $480.95 40.2K Feb 25, 2025 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. Altshuler's company approved trading plan under Rule 10b5-1, which was entered into on 8/8/2024.