CEO John Stankey and CFO Pascal Desroches bought into AT&T with their new focus on 5G only in hopes of being valued more like a CHTR or TMUS. The insider buys totaled 4.5 million dollars between the two.
CHTR and TMUS have far outperformed T, and pretty much every other stock for that matter over the past year. With the dividend being cut and the massive burden of trying to be a second-tier player in the streaming space, which has been getting more and more crowded and difficult to operate in, should allow them to hyper focus on the growth areas of their business.
This is a huge vote of confidence; granted they were buying into weakness, they still are putting their money where their mouths are and are dead-set on wiping the dust off this old dividend play stock which was more like a bond/fixed income than anything else.
*Personal trading plan* Buy stock and long naked calls expiring October 15th at the $30 strike price to give it plenty of time to come to fruition and begin trading closer to its new peers.