The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.

T-Mobile US is a facilities-based wireless telephone carrier. The company is the result of the merger of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile U.S. wireless division with small regional wireless carrier MetroPCS on April 30, 2013. T-Mobile acquired Sprint on April 1, 2020 and Ka'ena Corp. (Mint Mobile) on May 2024. The company offers national wireless voice and data services to consumers and businesses in the U.S, and simple no-contract service plans.

Throughout 2024, the stock market has remained in a solid uptrend that has lifted most styles and sizes. With three trading days remaining in October, the S&P 500 was up 22.1% year to date on a capital-appreciation basis. The Nasdaq, which lagged the broad market index for most of the year, is now ahead with a 23.7% gain. And the blue-chip DJIA is up 12.5%, with its deep lag attributable mainly to struggling component stocks including Boeing, Intel, and Nike While the S&P 500's rise across 2024 has been punctuated by some selling jags, the index mainly has been in climbing mode. The S&P's trading year 2024 started with a run from the 4,740s level on January 1 to around 5,250 by the end of March. After a down April, the index climbed from the 5,020s on 5/1/24 to the 5,670s by mid-July. The index made a low in the 5,180s early in August and a higher low around 5,400 early in September. The index mainly has risen since then, hitting its all-time closing high in the 5,860s on 10/18/24. The index has remained above its 50-day simple moving average (SMA) for nearly the entire year; and dips below that trendline have been remarkably short. The index first broke its 50-day SMA on 4/12/24 but was back above the intermediate-term trendline about three weeks later on 5/3/24. The next breach in the 50-day SMA occurred in the 5,520s on 7/31/24 and lasted two weeks until 8/14/24. The lower high from mid-August could not hold, and the 50-day again failed at the higher low from early September. In this case, the 50-day breach lasted less than a week, from 9/4/24 to 9/10/24. Even with some mid-October churn, the S&P 500 currently has a 140-point cushion over its 50-day SMA.

Deutsche Telekom merged its T-Mobile USA unit with prepaid specialist MetroPCS in 2013, and that firm merged with Sprint in 2020, creating the second-largest wireless carrier in the US. T-Mobile now serves 77 million postpaid and 21 million prepaid phone customers, equal to around 30% of the US retail wireless market. The firm entered the fixed-wireless broadband market aggressively in 2021 and now serves more than 5 million residential and business customers. In addition, T-Mobile provides wholesale services to resellers.