Tuozzolo Claudio

The insider captured under CIK 0001403540 — a Vicor Corp (VICR) executive or officer whose Form 4 filings span 268 transactions — operates a register whose most legible feature is a disciplined, recurring option-exercise-and-sell pattern executed in May–June 2026 at Vicor's then-elevated stock price of $290–$330 per share. The pattern is mechanically consistent: on May 11 and May 26, 2026, the insider exercised in-the-money stock options (acquiring shares at the low grant prices of $33.96 and $50.00 per share, the original compensation strike prices) and simultaneously sold the full exercised quantity at prevailing market prices of $304.65 and $328.41 — generating substantial paper gains on each cycle. The May 11 cycle alone produced proceeds of approximately $1.32 million from the sale of 4,346 shares at $304.65 against a $50.00 option strike, a net gain of roughly $1.1 million. The May 26 cycle produced roughly $986K from 3,000 shares at $328.41 against a $33.96 strike. These are not discretionary sells expressing a negative thesis on Vicor — they are mechanical option-exercise transactions that every option-holding executive must execute within a defined window after exercise to cover the option purchase cost and taxes. The 730-share exercise-and-sell on June 11, 2026 follows the identical structure. The register contains no open-market discretionary sells and no purchases outside of the option-exercise vehicle. The read: the insider is fully diversified out of Vicor at the executive-compensation level, treating the option grants as a cash-equivalent compensation layer rather than a concentrated bet, and executing the standard exercise-and-liquidate pattern that the tax code requires within the same trading window. The signal for Vicor shareholders is neutral — this is how option-heavy compensation works, not a vote of no-confidence.