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Velodyne Lidar, Inc. Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 30 Nov 2022.
Velodyne Lidar, Inc.: what insiders have been doing
Every trade that managers of Velodyne Lidar, Inc. disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Technology sector and is based in San Jose, United States. It was founded in 1983. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. has had no insider filing for more than a year; the last one goes back to 13 February 2023.
Since 2021, the database holds 12 purchases and 45 sales by insiders of the company.
Elsewhere in the same sector, our signals recently picked up insider purchases at Core Scientific, Inc./tx and Gitlab Inc. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
226
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€374,230
12 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€149M
45 ops. · all time
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Financial data
as of FY 2021FY ended December 2021 · cache
Income statement
RevenueUS$53.3M
Gross profit-US$5.1M-10% margin
Net income-US$182.7M-342.7% margin
Last declaration on 13 February 2023
Declarations226 total
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459 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001628280-23-002829:0
5,501 shares@ US$1.114.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001628280-23-002093:0
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10,366 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001628280-23-001547:0
1,652 shares0Common StockSEC:0001628280-23-000118:0
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1,837 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001628280-23-000116:0
1,550 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001628280-23-000115:0
158,559 shares@ US$0.7984.7% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001628280-22-032554:0
7,568 shares0Common StockSEC:0001628280-22-032118:0
1,607 shares0Common StockSEC:0001628280-22-032116:0
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About Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. was a U.S.-based technology company focused on lidar, a 3D sensing technology used to measure and map the surrounding environment of vehicles, robots, and smart infrastructure. Before its merger with Ouster, the company was listed on the NASDAQ in the United States and was widely recognized as one of the landmark names in the lidar industry. Its principal executive offices were in San Jose, California, placing it in the heart of Silicon Valley and close to major ecosystems for autonomous mobility, robotics, and advanced sensing. Velodyne traces its roots to Velodyne Acoustics, founded by David Hall in 1983, and it began developing lidar technology in 2005 before becoming an independent company in 2015. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1745317/000110465920080275/tm2024030-2_defa14a.htm?utm_source=openai))
Operationally, Velodyne built its franchise around lidar sensors and related software aimed at multiple end markets. Its public filings highlighted automotive and ADAS, autonomous vehicles, robotics, last-mile delivery, intelligent infrastructure, industrial applications, and security use cases. The company’s product portfolio included the Puck, Ultra Puck, Alpha Prime, Velarray, and the Vella software suite. That breadth mattered strategically: it allowed Velodyne to address a range of performance and price points, from established research and mapping use cases to higher-volume, more cost-sensitive deployment opportunities. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1745317/000110465920080275/tm2024030-2_defa14a.htm?utm_source=openai))
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In competitive terms, Velodyne was long viewed as a leading pure-play lidar company, supported by early brand recognition, intellectual property, and manufacturing know-how. At the same time, lidar has been a difficult market structurally: customer adoption cycles can be long, pricing is under pressure, and scaling production reliably is critical. The company’s SEC disclosures emphasized the need for manufacturing partnerships and industrial scaling to reach larger commercial markets. That backdrop framed Velodyne as a high-potential but execution-sensitive technology name. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1745317/000119312521218729/d188629d424b3.htm?utm_source=openai))
The key recent milestone was the merger with Ouster, completed on February 10, 2023. Following that transaction, Velodyne shares stopped trading separately on NASDAQ after the close of business, and the combined company continued under the Ouster name, listed on the NYSE under ticker OUST. For investors, this is an important point: Velodyne is no longer an independent publicly traded company, but its historical product line, customer relationships, and technology base remain relevant to understanding the combined platform and the consolidation trend within the lidar sector. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1816581/000162828024013619/oust-20231231.htm?utm_source=openai))
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