[Form 4] 8X8 INC /DE/ Insider Trading Activity
Laurence Denny, Chief Legal Officer of 8x8, Inc. (EGHT), reported a transaction dated 09/15/2025 in which 22,146 shares of common stock were disposed of at $2.13 per share. Following the transaction the reporting person beneficially owned 396,613 shares. The filing states these shares were withheld by the issuer to satisfy income tax withholding obligations in connection with the net settlement of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and explicitly notes this withholding does not represent a sale by the reporting person. The Form 4 was signed by an attorney-in-fact on behalf of Laurence Denny on 09/16/2025.
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TL;DR: Routine RSU tax-withholding resulted in a reported disposition; not an open-market sale by the officer.
The Form 4 documents a common administrative transaction where the issuer withheld 22,146 shares to satisfy tax withholding upon RSU settlement. Because the filing clarifies the withholding was not an open-market sale by the reporting person, this transaction is generally non-informational for valuation or insider sentiment analysis. The reported price of $2.13 reflects the withholding accounting treatment, not necessarily an executed market sale instruction by the insider. The remaining beneficial ownership of 396,613 shares is material for ownership concentration analysis but requires context of total outstanding shares to assess significance; that context is not provided in this filing.
TL;DR: Administrative RSU settlement withholding is routine and signals standard compensation mechanics, not a change in insider intent.
The disclosure is consistent with issuer practice of net-settling RSUs by withholding shares to cover tax obligations. Such filings should be tracked for cumulative insider holdings changes, but a single withholding event, explicitly described as non-sale, does not indicate governance or control shifts. The signature by an attorney-in-fact is a standard procedural detail and does not alter the nature of the transaction.