Hubert Joly, Best Buy CEO, sells stock to pay for divorce (must be a cheap divorce)
NEW YORK -- Hubert Joly, CEO of Best Buy, sold some stock in order to help pay for his divorce settlement.
In a regulatory filing, Joly said he exercised some 350,467 stock options at $18.02 per share, for a total of about $6.3 million.
He then sold those shares, plus other holdings in the consumer electronics chain, for a total of 451,153 shares for $16.7 million.
That means he made about $10.4 million from the sale.
Best Buy Co. said in a statement that Joly sold the stock "due to circumstances related to his marital dissolution." The chain said that he still owns stock that is substantially more than the 140,000 share ownership target that is part of its executive stock ownership guidelines.
Last month, Best Buy reported second-quarter results that topped analysts' estimates as it slashed costs and worked to make its website more competitive. The retailer has been shuttering underperforming stores and revamping others to offset tough competition from discounters and online retailers.
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