Who Got Rich This Week: A Vegas High Roller, A Drug Making Doctor And More

Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. Despite Friday’s mixed session, the major indices closed the week in the black. Driven largely by strong corporate earnings, the S&P 500 rose more than 2% over the past five days. Of the S&P 500 components that have reported first quarter earnings thus far, 69% have beaten Wall Street’s net income projections. That trumps the 63% the index has averaged over the past two decades. Though the top line beat rate has hovered in the 40% range, investors appear confident that a sizable correction does not lie right around the corner. Here, some of the corporate insiders that made a killing over the past seven days:

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