While I’m a huge fan of stock option plans and feel they’re an underused compensation tool, I also recognize the signal risk they introduce when insiders exercise those rights and the subsequent disclosures trigger negative-leaning stories on social media. PLUS shareholders are once bitten (and therefore twice shy), but these sales happened months ago, and the impact was basically unnoticeable through all of the insane noise coming from Senators Villanueva and Gatchalian. Well, at least until Villanueva got sat down by allegations of grotesque corruption, and Gatchalian couldn’t squeal above the volume of the public’s rage for what the ruling class had done with our money. Timing is key.