Spotify Witness its Top Executives Cashing on Stocks as Share Prices Inflate

Spotify’s share price is soaring! The music streaming giant’s stock prices rocketed to an all time high on the NYSE. It closed at an all-time high of USD $477.50 effective November 14. The price gradually crawled back to $458.32 at the close of trading the next day. However, it was still enough to give Spotify a gigantic market cap of $92 billion!

Predictably, some of Spotify’s leading stockholders have seized on this market cap valuation hike. This list includes its co-founder and CEO, Daniel EK by stocking out chunks of their shares. Ek apparently sold 75,000 Spotify shares as of November 15, enabling him to cash out $35.8 million. This is not the first time he has cashed in some of his Spotify stock. Daniel has cashed out approximately $376.3 million spanning across 5 transactions (including the aforesaid) in the past 18 months.

The biggest single encashment of Spotify stock, however, has not come from Daniel. It has come from his co-founder in the company. As per an SEC filing located by Music Business Worldwide, Rosello Company Ltd sold 959,762 shares on November 13. It generated an eye-watering USD $383.75 million in revenue for Rosello.

Rosello is a Cyprus-registered holding company which is owned by a Luxembourg-based firm called Almatea. Martin Lorentzon is its sole shareholder who also doubles up as Spotify co-founder and former chairman. He had previously cashed out $81 million in Spotify stock in June this year. It boils down to approximately $450 million cashed out by Lorentzon in a mere duration of five months!

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