GAIN Capital Chief Marketing Officer Samantha Roady offloads more shares, pocketing $189,500

Samantha Roady, Chief Marketing Officer at Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has sold yet more shares in the company, this time resulting in a net monetary value of $189,500.

Ms. Roady sold 25,000 units of common stock in the company at $7.58 per unit, on January 4, 2016 as reported by a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Following this transaction, Ms. Roady continues to hold 248,228 units of common stock in GAIN Capital, which is worth approximately $1.87 million.

During the past year and a half, Ms. Roady has made several transactions which have realized the cash value of substantial amounts of stock, the most recent having been in July 2015 when she sold $23,875 worth.

In June last year, Ms. Roady was awarded 21,030 shares by GAIN Capital which at the time were worth approximately $200,000, which added to a previous award by teh company last year which was worth over $1.2 million.

During the course of the last year and a half, Ms. Roady had sold a number of the shares that were part of the award, realizing a collective cash value of $349,875.

When considering the transaction made this week, the total cash value realized thus far by Ms. Roady from her share issue amounts to over half a million dollars, and yet still leaves her with almost $2 million in company stock.

Clearly, being an executive within a publicly listed company comes with the benefit of being able to profit from its performance on the open market, which is a great way to secure a future.

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