Cathie Wood's ARK loading up on Coinbase shares again, buying $18M

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ARK Invest purchased 269,928 shares successful Coinbase connected March 23, lone 2 days aft it sold $13.5 million, its archetypal merchantability of Coinbase shares this year.

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Cathie Wood’s Investment Management steadfast Ark Invest has gone backmost to buying Coinbase shares again, conscionable a time aft the COIN’s banal terms dipped amid quality of its Wells notice

On March 23, the steadfast purchased 268,928 Coinbase shares via its ARKK Innovation and ARKW Next Generation Internet exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which are worthy $17.88 cardinal astatine the clip of writing.

Only 2 days prior, and earlier the quality of the Wells announcement broke, ARK Invest sold 160,887 Coinbase shares from its ARK Fintech Innovation ETF. The merchantability was the archetypal clip immoderate of Ark Invest’s ETFs shed Coinbase shares successful 2023.

Cathie Wood and Ark Invest's commercialized enactment from contiguous 3/23 pic.twitter.com/yyubxTegZj

— Ark Invest Daily (@ArkkDaily) March 24, 2023

Coinbase’s stock terms has failed to retrieve since it shared quality of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Wells notice, which saw its stock terms autumn astir 21%.

Shares successful Coinbase dipped to a debased of $64.27 aft trading began connected Mar. 23, and are presently trading astatine $66.87 successful after-hours trading, according to Barron’s.

Coinbase’s stock terms from March 17 to March 23. Source: Barron’s

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong had besides sold shares successful his steadfast betwixt March 17 to March 20 — conscionable days anterior to the Wells announcement and stock terms dip.

SEC filings indicate however that Coinbase executives and insiders each participate into 10B5-1 selling plans months successful beforehand and that this tranche of income was pursuant to a trading program adopted connected Aug. 16, 2022.

SEC filing showing the latest shares sold by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Source: SEC Archives

While the SEC reached a settlement with crypto speech Kraken connected Feb. 9 aft alleging its staking services qualified arsenic securities, Coinbase has repeatedly asserted that its staking products are fundamentally antithetic from Kraken's and that staking cannot beryllium universally labeled arsenic securities.

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