On September 9, 2024, Sanjay Datta, Chief Financial Officer of Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UPST), executed a sale of 1,500 shares of the company. The transaction was filed on the same day with the SEC. Following this sale, the insider now owns 344,593 shares of Upstart Holdings Inc.
Upstart Holdings Inc operates as a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform. The company’s platform aggregates consumer demand for loans and connects it to its network of the company’s AI-enabled bank partners.
Over the past year, the insider has sold a total of 113,127 shares and has not made any purchases. This recent transaction is part of a broader trend observed over the past year, where there have been 95 insider sells and no insider buys at Upstart Holdings Inc.
Shares of Upstart Holdings Inc were priced at $34.85 on the day of the sale, giving the company a market cap of approximately $3.15 billion. According to the GF Value, the intrinsic value estimate for the stock is $25.95, indicating that the stock is significantly overvalued with a price-to-GF-Value ratio of 1.34.
The GF Value is calculated based on historical multiples such as price-earnings ratio, price-sales ratio, price-book ratio, and price-to-free cash flow, along with a GuruFocus adjustment factor based on the companys past returns and growth, and future business performance estimates from Morningstar analysts.
This sale by the insider at Upstart Holdings Inc aligns with the broader trend of insider selling at the company, which may be of interest to current and potential investors monitoring insider behaviors and company valuation metrics.
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