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William John Miller is CEO at VECO. William John Miller'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 $6.3M at current prices.
Our model assigns William John Miller a middling insider score of 59/100, based on 12 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 57.1% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of -5.1%.
The VECO filings lean toward selling, a net 611,119 shares.
William John Miller has 80 Form 4 filings on record from June 2015 to August 2026, all as CEO at Veeco Instruments (VECO), 2015–2026.
The 135 reported transactions were 63 tax withholdings, 19 option exercises, 18 open-market sales and 17 stock awards, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 2 purchases worth about $219K and 15 sales worth about $28.4M.
The largest open-market purchase was 10,000 shares of VECO at an average $11.79 on August 7, 2018, about $118K.
The largest open-market sale was 200,000 shares of VECO at an average $54.18 on August 17, 2026, about $10.8M.
10 of the 12 sales since April 2023 were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan; the other 2 were not.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Aug 17, 2026 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 200,000 | $54.18 | $10,836,410.56 | -54.1% | - | - | |
| Jun 2, 2026 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 50,000 | $58.62 | $2,931,000.00 | -11.9% | -27.4% | - | |
| May 7, 2026 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. | CEO | Sell | 100,000 | $59.55 | $5,955,000.00 | -19.2% | -8.2% | - | |
| Mar 3, 2026 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc. | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 50,000 | $31.62 | $1,581,000.00 | -10.8% | +76.3% | - | |
| Dec 5, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 25,000 | $32.00 | $800,000.00 | -5.1% | -0.7% | - | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 25,000 | $29.10 | $727,500.00 | -4.9% | +12.2% | - | |
| Oct 1, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 25,000 | $32.00 | $800,000.00 | -4.6% | -12.0% | +60.8% | |
| Sep 9, 2025 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 25,000 | $25.00 | $625,000.00 | -5.0% | +29.5% | +80.5% | |
| May 9, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell | 30,000 | $38.19 | $1,145,700.00 | -5.5% | -13.5% | -49.5% | |
| Mar 21, 2024 | VECO Veeco Instruments Inc | CEO | Sell10b5-1 | 24,201 | $35.30 | $854,392.10 | -4.3% | +32.4% | -39.9% |