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Bakkt didn’t wake up Monday as a market darling, but it did get a pretty loud after-hours vote of confidence. Shares jumped 16% after SEC filings showed director Michael Alfred, through Alpine Fox LP, scooped up 365,000 shares on May 15 and another 220,000 on May 18, paying about $4.85 million in total.
The insider math says "I like this"
After those buys, Alfred’s indirect stake rose to 625,000 shares. That kind of open-market buying tends to make investors lean in a little harder, because insiders don’t usually throw millions at a stock just for the thrill of it. It’s basically the corporate version of someone betting their own lunch money on the team.
One more filing for the pile
Bakkt also disclosed that CEO Akshay Sudhir Naheta exercised 33,557 committed stock options on May 15 at $10 a share, or about $335,570. The move was made under a pre-set Rule 10b5-1 plan, which means it was scheduled in advance — less "hot tip," more "calendar invite." Still, the filings added fuel to the stock’s overnight bounce.
Why investors care
This comes on the heels of Bakkt’s rough first quarter, when revenue fell 77.1% year over year to $243.59 million and the company missed expectations on both sales and earnings. So when insiders start buying into a stock that’s been living near its annual low, the market tends to notice. Big picture: Bakkt is still a volatile crypto-platform bet, but these filings suggest at least some people close to the company think the current price is a bargain.