CIRRUS LOGIC, INC. CRUS

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19.0 Misaligned Little insider ownership or buying; insiders are not sharing outside shareholders' risk Automated score
ScoredOct 05, 2026
Proxy filed2026-06-03
Insider data throughOct 05, 2026
Price$121.35 on Oct 05, 2026
Methodology v2.0

Misaligned: insiders net sellers over 24 months, no insider buying in 5 years

Current directors and officers hold 0.60% of shares outstanding, worth $36.74M at $121.35. The CEO's stake is worth 5.1x their annual cash pay. Over the last 24 months insiders bought $0.00 in the open market and sold $1.72M outside 10b5-1 plans and $19.08M under them. No director or officer has bought shares in the open market in five years.

Strengths

  • Diluted share count growth: -2.63 % a year F
  • Stock-based compensation versus market value: 1.35% F

Concerns

  • Price versus insider purchase cost: No open-market purchases in five years W
  • Purchased shares still held: No open-market purchases in five years W
  • Net insider buying: -30.64% C

Component breakdown

Skin in the game 10 / 20

How much the CEO and the insider group own, measured from their own Form 4 holdings.

CEO stake as a multiple of cash pay A1 See the value and its source 7 / 12
Insider group ownership A2 See the value and its source 3 / 8
Bought, not granted 0 / 15

Whether insiders put their own money in through open-market purchases, or only hold what they were awarded.

CEO shares bought in the open market B1 See the value and its source 0 / 8
Insiders who bought in the open market B2 See the value and its source 0 / 7
Above or below water 0 / 30

Where today's price sits against what insiders paid in the open market, and whether they still hold those shares. A price below insider cost is a better entry than insiders got.

Price versus insider purchase cost W1 Free preview No open-market purchases in five years No open-market purchases in five years 0 / 18
Purchased shares still held W2 See the value and its source 0 / 12
Recent buying trends 0 / 25
Dilution cost 9 / 10

How much equity compensation costs outside shareholders, from the company's XBRL financial data.

Stock-based compensation versus market value F1 See the value and its source 5 / 6
Diluted share count growth F2 See the value and its source 4 / 4

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Key insiders

Name Role Owned Multiple Bought 24-month activity
Forsyth John CEO and Director $9.0M 5.1x 0% −$3.8M under a plan
Alberty Carl Jackson EVP, MSP $4.9M — 0% −$1.0M under a plan
Habermann Ulf Principal Accounting Officer $3.9M — 0% No activity
THOMAS SCOTT EVP, General Counsel $3.8M — 0% −$4.0M under a plan
Baumgartner Jeffrey W EVP, R&D $1.6M — 0% −$7.4M under a plan
Grode Denise EVP, CHRO $1.2M — 0% −$510K under a plan
Woolard Jeffrey Chief Financial Officer $968K — 0% No activity
Brannan Andrew EVP, Worldwide Sales $874K — 0% −$2.3M under a plan
Dougherty Justin E EVP, Global Operations $551K — 0% −$1.3M outside a plan
CIRRUS LOGIC, INC. Chief Financial Officer — — — No activity
Tupman David J. Director $3.4M — 0% No activity
DAVERN ALEXANDER M Director $2.7M — 0% −$405K outside a plan
Lego Catherine P Director $1.4M — 0% No activity
Hussain Muhammad Raghib Director $1.3M — 0% No activity
LE DUY LOAN T Director $752K — 0% No activity
MOSLEY WILLIAM D Director $440K — 0% No activity
All current directors and officers 0.60% of shares outstanding $36.7M — — —

Directors and officers who filed a Form 4 in the last 24 months. Owned is each person's latest reported non-derivative holdings (direct plus each indirect line, no options) at the price above. Multiple is the CEO's holdings divided by salary, bonus, and non-equity incentive from the latest proxy. Bought is the share of current holdings bought in the open market in the last five years.

Insider activity

Full activity
Bought in the open market $0 0 purchase(s) by 0 insider(s)
Sold outside a plan $1.7M
Sold under a 10b5-1 plan $19.1M
Cluster buys 0 3+ insiders buying within 30 days

24 months to Oct 05, 2026. Grants and shares withheld for tax are excluded: they are not decisions to buy or sell.

Date Insider Transaction Shares Price Value Plan
Sep 21, 2026 Baumgartner Jeffrey W Sale under a 10b5-1 plan 1,166 $119.00 $139K 10b5-1
Aug 20, 2026 Baumgartner Jeffrey W Sale under a 10b5-1 plan 1,166 $117.89 $137K 10b5-1
Jul 20, 2026 Baumgartner Jeffrey W Sale under a 10b5-1 plan 1,166 $138.57 $162K 10b5-1

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Score history

Full changelog
  • Oct 05, 2026 full grade First automated score: 19 (Misaligned).

Peer context

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