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John P Kiernan is SVP & Chief Financial Officer at VECO. John P Kiernan's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $2.6M at current prices.
Our model assigns John P Kiernan a middling insider score of 63/100, based on 17 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 52.9% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of -7.4%.
The VECO filings lean toward selling, a net 98,836 shares.
John P Kiernan has 75 Form 4 filings on record from June 2015 to August 2026, all as SVP & Chief Financial Officer at Veeco Instruments (VECO), 2015–2026.
The 128 reported transactions were 57 tax withholdings, 22 open-market sales, 19 option exercises and 13 option or other derivative awards, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 1 purchase worth about $104K and 16 sales worth about $3.9M.
The only open-market purchase was 5,000 shares of VECO at an average $20.79 on May 11, 2022, about $104K. Twelve months later VECO was down 2%.
The largest open-market sale was 35,000 shares of VECO at an average $51.05 on August 10, 2026, about $1.8M.
14 of the 15 sales since April 2023 were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan; the other was not.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Aug 10, 2026 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 35,000 | $51.05 | $1,786,596.20 | -33.7% | - | - | |
| May 12, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $20.64 | $51,600.00 | -2.9% | +13.3% | +192.0% | |
| Apr 10, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $18.81 | $47,025.00 | -3.6% | +15.5% | +117.5% | |
| Mar 10, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $20.68 | $51,700.00 | -3.4% | +5.4% | +54.6% | |
| Feb 10, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $24.51 | $61,275.00 | -3.3% | -14.5% | +27.8% | |
| Jan 10, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $27.63 | $69,075.00 | -3.2% | -31.0% | +24.1% | |
| Dec 10, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $28.80 | $72,000.00 | -3.1% | -27.1% | +15.4% | |
| Nov 11, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $28.67 | $71,675.00 | -3.0% | -12.4% | +8.7% | |
| Oct 10, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,500 | $32.63 | $81,575.00 | -2.9% | -14.0% | -15.1% | |
| Sep 10, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | SVP & Chief Financial Officer | Sell | 2,500 | $29.04 | $72,598.50 | -2.9% | -0.5% | -13.0% |