Lucky Pfizer CEO Bourla cashes out $5.6M worth of stock—perfectly legally—as COVID vaccine data lifts market

On Monday before the stock market opened, Pfizer announced that its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had proven 90% effective so far in its ongoing late-stage trial, lifting the company’s shares nearly 8% through the course of the day.

The same day, in a stock sale Pfizer says was planned months ago, CEO Albert Bourla offloaded 132,508 shares—more than 60% of his total holdings—for $5.6 million.

Insider trading? Nope. Extraordinarily lucky? To be sure.