#stock

https://stocks.apple.com/AMGHmaVspTB2Sa6MsXca_7Q

Any bad guidance during the call will firmly put the stock in the $20s.
The result is already baked into the current stock price.

Let's pray, because if the guidance is bad then it will follow up by layoffs

$20/share by end of year.

The easiest way to reassure shareholders is through layoffs. The last few months have been nerve-racking.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/mattel-executive-dumps-nearly-40-212237190.html

Roberto Jacobo Isaias Zanatta, Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT), sold 39,083 shares on August 31, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.

Do employees know there is a direct correlation between share price and employee layoffs? This Board and management team has destroyed any value in this company which constantly drives the value of PayPal lower. Now we seem to be relying on lowball buyout offers to give us any hope. I have lot of company stock from the 7 years I’ve been here and it constantly goes down. Even if they sold the company for $90 a share I would still lose money over a 7 year period!!!!! That is absolutely nuts.

370 institutional investors added shares of $CDW stock to their portfolio and 506 decreased their positions in their most recent quarter.

PayPal’s pres. Keller sells $255,655 in shares

https://www.investing.com/news/insider-trading-news/paypals-pres-keller-sells-255655-in-shares-93CH-4892589

Last few years, Nike was concerned about what Wall Street thought and jumped through the hoops to make it look good for the them.

Now that they are not part of the index, they should be worried making shoes that matters to public. And forget about Wall Street.

Stock down almost 6%, in anticipation of a negative update?

Ah ha! The ole buy back your own stock to try and get some shareholder buying momentum going routine! The oldest trick in the book!

Why haven't we heard a anything about it since they said we weren't getting it with our BPI and year end reviews

No longer want it. I am moving on...

Layoffs will follow.

I hope it keeps going down. All those company stock buy backs are wasted capital and creating a bigger doom loop.

My god, can this little troll do anything right? The stock is a yo-yo now and we’re at all time lows. A monkey could run this place better.

better yet- outsource all of finance . watch the stock hit $65

According to Centene’s public filings, Secretary and General Counsel Christopher Koster sold:

• Aug. 18: 47,603 shares — ~$3.11M
• Aug. 26: 56,500 shares — ~$3.78M

That’s roughly $6.89 million in eight days.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CNC/insider-transactions/

And nope, not a duplicate. Second trip to the serving line. This guy is hungry.

Centene’s 2026 proxy also reports roughly $16.4 million in total compensation from 2023–2025.

Does this mean Koster is leaving? No idea. There’s no public filing saying that. Maybe it’s routine diversification. Maybe he wants a yacht. Maybe his financial adviser just discovered the SELL button.

But after layoffs, outsourcing, leadership changes, and Mission Simplify Mission Sellify, the timing is at least worth noticing.

The filings are public. The transactions are real. The motive is unknown.

Chris, if there’s a third plate, NoCenteam will be watching the buffet.

Why aren’t we buying back our stock faster? We have so much cash and all time lows on our stock. We can basically take our company private in a few years at this rate.

Stock was crushed because free cash flow is weak. Translation .... no more buildings to sell, not enough free cash anymore to buy back shares, component costs hitting margin, lack of innovation has resulted in stale comiditized products.

The only way to increase cash flow now is a massive layoff.

Rob Thomas sold ~1/3rd of his shares a few days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/Gml6EXiZL8

What does he know?

Guess you can’t trust the markets to fairly set the market price based on the merits of your corporation’s actual running of the business. So, you have to revert to playing three card monte, hide the Queen.

Keep out stock until at least October 30th and on November 27th you will get a whole $0.885 per share in CASH!!!

So, if you have 200 shares, you get a check for $177 (before taxes)! Yippee!!! Woo hoo!!!

Never mind, considering investing some place else where your money will grow at a much higher rate between now and October 30th.

1. 1. Elliott Schmelliott.

As the stock price soars and our execs are enriched wondering if our leaders might consider a special bonus like Chevron did. Some bread crumbs for the peasants

Down 25% this month
Next few quarterly results will have so much spin I recommend Dramamine before partaking of the party.
Big Short

Ok, enough is enough. We have a great company and I’m not sure why investors can’t see this opportunity. Everyone on here talking about low price of stock and I agree, so I bought 200 shares today. I don’t get any stock comp so I have to buy but this is about as low as I’ve ever seen in the 7 years I’ve worked.

It’s been 5 years of this BA

sadly, the weak stock price keeps the management and the board on edge.

Wall Street won’t spare the management, and the management won’t spare any of us.

Centene apparently found another place to put all those savings from “operational efficiency”: Ambetter Health is now sponsoring Mizzou athletics. All sports, because apparently one team wasn’t enough.

It’s football season, though, so for now we get to watch the Ambetter logo ride around on jerseys every Saturday. The pairing is almost too good. Mizzou has spent years getting mileage out of 2-star and 3-star recruits, and Ambetter has spent years collecting 2-star and 3-star reviews. That’s the kind of synergy somebody in leadership probably put on a slide and called strategic alignment, brand activation, stakeholder engagement, or some other expensive phrase for “we bought a sponsorship.”

Meanwhile, employees are watching VSP dates, layoffs, reorganizations, and wondering who gets whacked next. Apparently the marketing budget remains resilient and well-positioned for long-term growth.

I’ve already said reporters ought to be reporting on what is actually happening at Centene, but nobody seems terribly interested in connecting the layoffs, VSPs, vendors, spending, stock performance, and forecasts that keep heading the wrong direction. So I guess somebody has to.

At least the C-suite should get some nice box seats. They can sit up there late in the season and watch Mizzou get rolled by the big boys, just like the stock and the forecast.

I’m sure there’s a slide somewhere showing positive momentum.

https://www.si.com/college/missouri/football/mizzou-athletics-announces-jersey-patch-sponsorship-with-ambetter-health

Ramon still going after adding $10 to our price

Gee....one has to wonder....do they know something? (removes tongue from cheek):
Insider Trading Activity and Trends
Over the past year, Michael Feld has sold a total of 953 shares of Becton Di-kinson & Co and has not purchased any shares during that same period. This recent sale continues a trend of consistent, albeit relatively small, divestments by the insider.

Looking at the broader insider transaction history for Becton Di-kinson & Co, the picture is decidedly one-sided. Over the past year, there have been 0 insider buys at the company, while there have been 22 insider sells during the same timeframe. This imbalance between buying and selling activity is a signal that corporate insiders, who possess the most intimate knowledge of the company's operations and prospects, have been net sellers of the stock.

At what point do we stop calling this a “turnaround” and admit Nike’s leadership sc--wed up? The stock is sitting around $38.

That’s after years of bad decisions, losing momentum with younger customers, getting buried by competitors, and turning some of the most iconic shoes in the world into glorified clearance-rack inventory.

And somehow the people running the company are still getting paid like everything is going great.

Elliott Hill pulled in $36.3 million in 2026 after laying off thousands of hardworking people. Meanwhile, Nike’s stock is still nowhere near where it was a few years ago.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/di-ks-sporting-goods-stock-crash-reveals-a-major-problem-for-struggling-nike-114409937.html

I would like to congratulate the PEP team for this outstanding achievement. This is truly a testament to your dedication, leadership and passion for winning ! Not every organization with a Market Cap of $194B and 300,000 employees worldwide is capable of providing a lower rate of return to its investors than a Money Market fund. Although this may not create smiles for our investors, who cares, it's important to remember that change is difficult and just achieving this small positive number is something you can all be proud of. Let's try for +1.04 in the last 4 months of 2026 !

Stock price under our new CEO is down 24%. Not giving investors a lot of confidence.

And what do we get

They're milking the company for quick profits while it lasts. Layoffs boost stock prices and pad bonuses, even if they hollow out the company for the future. They're not clueless. They just don't care what happens after they cash out.