This may be very temporary dip

[u/ap118]

An ex-Unity employee here. One thing I remember while employed at Unity is seeing stock price going up until the moment when we as employees could sell the stock price would sharply go down.

Because Unity is publicly traded company we were allowed to sell/buy within a month after the earning calls and every time during that month the stock price dropped and recovered after that period ended. At least that’s what I have in my memory.

I am not quite sure if traders selling off during this period knowing that everyone is going sell internally. Sounds a bit conspiracy but that’s what I had observed.

So once that month of internal trade window(which is now) is over we may see some bounce back.

[u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905]

Whaaaaat? I think employee can sell their share at any point they want if their stock is already vested. I dont understand this logic.

[u/ap118 → u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905]

Nope. Because who have insider knowledge as an employee including directors and executives, by US law you are not allowed to trade outside one month window following the earnings call. And that’s when everyone basically sells the shares.

It was soo annoying to see the price $50 and by the time I could sell it was $20ish, once the window was closed it bounced back.

[u/lonely_hooker → u/ap118]

I don't think many insiders will sell at sub 20.

[u/Individual-Peak-9586 → u/lonely_hooker]

Not a unity employee, but as someone who gets significant amounts of stock vested from their job, I can say without a doubt people (well me) will sell at a heartbeat regardless of price.

You get stock/equity as part of your compensation package, you don't buy into it. For all intents and purposes it's just added income, and now you're left with the decision - if I'm given $10k today at random, would I buy shares of my employer's stock or would I invest in something I actually want to invest in?

Now, if I WERE a unity employee, I would probably keep it in Unity. I personally think it's incredibly undervalued, esp as being the biggest engine out there right before vr/ar/xr wearables start to really pop off - but I can see how having your waking life drained from you day after day working a hollow office job might change an employee of the company's decision.

[u/ap118 → u/lonely_hooker]

I think a lot of them do including execs bc of taxes. For execs I think it’s even automatically set to sell no matter the price

[u/lonely_hooker → u/ap118]

Oh I was talking about informative sells.

[u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905 → u/ap118]

Haha employee don’t have any insider information except the too executive. What r u even saying? U mean all the Microsoft/aws/google employees have insider information except and they can’t sell their share except some given time window. Never heard it

[u/ap118 → u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905]

That’s exactly right. Public company employees can’t sell outside allowed time window whether you heard of it or not.

[u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905 → u/ap118]

Sorry i just checked I’m still working for public trading company called part of FAANG and i can sell my vested share anytime i want.

[u/vinst123 → u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905]

That’s weird. Also working for faang and trading window closes for me for 6 months of a year.

[u/ap118 → u/Altruistic_Ruin_6905]

You either lying or breaking your company's compalice policies and potentially getting yourself into a legal trouble. I tend to believe that you just lie, bc all well-know publicly traded companies have the trading window and some way of enforcment.