Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Sells Another $5 Million Worth Of Stock
Flickr/FortuneTwitter CEO Dick Costolo made nearly $5.1 million after dumping 140,352 shares of company stock early this month, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
This isn't the first recent sale. In November and December of 2014, he sold more than 500,000 shares, including all the stocks owned by his family trusts.
That means he's now sold more than $25 million worth of stock since November.
The latest filing shows that Costolo sold his shares over two days, on Jan. 2 and Jan. 5. He also appears to have exercised some options over the same period, and still owns a little more than 810,000 Twitter shares. If you add that to all of his unexercised stock options, Costolo's total share amounts to roughly 9 million shares.
The sale comes at a precarious time for Costolo. Several investors have called for his resignation, with one major shareholder telling us, "He shouldn't be running the company anymore."
Twitter stock closed down 3.8% at $37.28 on Wednesday, after rising almost 7% the previous day thanks to speculation about the company, including a comment from former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn that Twitter should buy Yahoo's core media business.
We've reached out to Twitter for comment and will update this article when we hear back.
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