3D Systems Corp (DDD)

[Lonnie Starr]

Yeah, I saw that too, but you need to take into account their overall holdings. In that view you see that only one insider is selling a significant slice of his holdings, the others are "automatic sells" and/or they are a small percent of their holdings. Also remember that these are insiders, people who also get bundles of shares as compensation, so they often don't have to put up hard cash, and they have dreams and schemes of dreams that they don't want to put off. Even Bill Gates sold lots of shares on a regular basis. Those shares were replaced whenever the stock split (which was often).

In short, I see nothing unusual about these sells, these insiders simply want cash now, probably to pay off mortgages, buy that boat or other luxury item or take some grand trip, and are unwilling to wait for what could be, perhaps another year (remember wifey enters into the equation to sell as well). Of course insider selling is a short sellers dream event, but as I said, on closer inspection these sells are hardly worth any attention at all.