When BLSM insiders can sell

BlossomHill Therapeutics, Inc. · IPO prospectus filed 2026-08-07 · Single cliff · 180-day lock-up

Scheduled lock-up expiry
2027-02-03
Pressure

That is the calendar date the clause computes to, counted from the prospectus date. It is the only date computable without knowing a future earnings date, which is why everything that could pull it earlier is printed below it on this page rather than folded into it.

How much stock, against how much trades

"Absorb days" is the shares coming free divided by average daily volume: how many full sessions of BLSM's entire turnover the release amounts to. It is a ratio, not a forecast — it does not know who wants to sell, and a founder with no intention of selling counts the same as a fund that has been waiting six months.

Shares coming free
21.3M
Avg daily volume
155K
Absorb days
137 sessions
Cohort percentile
79th
Offer price
$16.00
Vs offer
-15.6%

Exactly 21,268,660 shares, against 155,110 shares a day averaged over 20 sessions. Volume source: yahoo-finance2 daily bars (symbol not in our price table), through 2026-11-06. Dollar volume $2.1M a day. Heaviest third of the cohort.

Our call: Pressure

BLSM sits in the heaviest third of a cohort of 47 deals — lightest third at or below 54.1 sessions, heaviest at or above 109 sessions. The call is cohort-relative, not a fixed threshold, so the same absorb-day figure could read differently against a different month's IPOs. Expected excess return against SPY: negative.

The lock-up clause, in the issuer's words

Every other free lock-up calendar tells you 180 days and moves on. This is the actual sentence the date above was computed from, so that if the words do not support the number, the number is wrong and the filing is one click away.

…, or exchangeable for our common stock have entered into market standoff agreements with us and have entered or will enter into lock-up agreements under which we have agreed or will agree, subject to specific exceptions described in the section titled "Underwriting," not to offer, sell, or transfer such securities for 180 days following the date of this prospectus. We refer to such period as the lock-up period. The underwriters may, in their sole discretion and at any time or from time to time before the termination of the lock-up period release all or any portion of the securities subject to lock-up agreements. 84 Table of Contents Moreover, after this offering, certain holders of shares of our common stock will have rights, subject to specified conditions, to require us to file registration statements covering their shares or to include their shares in registration…

Where the share count comes from

21,268,660 shares — derived: shares outstanding after the offering, less the shares sold in it. A count the prospectus prints and a count derived from two of its other numbers are not the same quality of claim, so which one this is gets said rather than implied.

Shares outstanding after the offering30,643,660
Shares sold in the offering9,375,000
Locked up, coming free at expiry21,268,660
The sentence the count was read from
Common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering 30,643,660 shares (or 32,049,910 shares if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full). Use of proceeds We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the sale of our common stock in this offering will be approximately $134.9 million (or approximately $155.8 million if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full), based on the initial public offering price of $16.00 per share, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

Exceptions written into the lock-up (5)

Each of these is a route by which BLSM shares can move before 2027-02-03. The 10b5-1 carve-out is the one worth reading twice: it lets insiders put a selling plan in place during the lock-up, so the first sales can be automatic and immediate rather than discretionary and later.

  • 10b5-1 plan
  • bona fide gift or charitable transfer
  • estate planning or family transfer
  • directed share program participants
  • option exercise or RSU settlement
10b5-1 plan
Rule 10b5-1 sales plans Our directors and executive officers may adopt written plans, known as Rule 10b5-1 plans, in which they will contract with a broker to buy or sell shares of our common stock on a periodic basis. Under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, a broker executes trades pursuant to parameters established by the director or executive officer when entering into the plan, without further direction from them. The director or executive officer may amend a Rule 10b5-1 plan in some circumstances and may terminate a Rule 10b5-1 plan at any time.
bona fide gift or charitable transfer
…agreements between the underwriters and the lock-up parties do not apply, subject in certain cases to various conditions, to certain transactions, including (a) transfers or dispositions of lock-up securities: (i) as a bona fide gift or gifts or charitable contribution, or for bona fide estate planning purposes, (ii) by will or intestacy or any other testamentary document, (iii) to any member of the lock-up party's immediate family or to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the lock-up party or any immediate family member, or if the lock-up party is a trust, to a trustor, trustee, or beneficiary of the trust or to the es…
estate planning or family transfer
…ctors), 70 Table of Contents certain non-physician practitioners (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners), and teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members; federal consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially harm consumers; and analogous state and foreign laws and regulations, such as state anti-kickback and false claims laws, which may apply to claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-governmental third-party payors, including private insu…
directed share program participants
Directed share program At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to 1% of the shares of common stock offered hereby, at the initial public offering price, to offer to our directors and officers and certain of our employees, business associates, investors and friends and family of our directors, officers, employees, business associates and investors. The sales will be made at our direction by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, an underwriter of this offering, and its affiliates through a directed share program.
option exercise or RSU settlement
…f all outstanding shares of our convertible preferred stock into 18,258,960 shares of our common stock in connection with the closing of this offering and (ii) the issuance of 365,374 shares of our common stock upon the exercise of outstanding options subsequent to March 31, 2026, of which 227,514 shares remain subject to a right of repurchase as of the date of this prospectus (the Exercised Option Share Issuance), and excludes: 1,128,299 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options outstanding under the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (2020 Plan) as of March 31, 2026, with a weighted-average exercise price of $…

How this reading of BLSM could be wrong

The lock-up period is restated 3 times in this prospectus. Issuers repeat the clause on the cover, in the summary, in the risk factors and in the underwriting section, and the wording is not always identical. The parser resolved them to one period; if a reader finds a restatement that disagrees, the quote above is the one it used.

The volume is a vendor's, not ours. BLSM is not in our own price table, so average daily volume comes from yahoo-finance2 daily bars (symbol not in our price table). Vendor bars for recently listed symbols are the ones most likely to be wrong.

Only 20 sessions of volume history. This is a recent IPO, and early volume is dominated by the offering itself. An average over 20 sessions of a stock that has barely traded is the weakest input on the page, and absorb days inherits every bit of that weakness.

The parser can misread a filing. That is why every number here is printed next to the words it came from. Earlier versions of this parser read the underwriters' 30-day over-allotment window as a 30-day lock-up on five deals, and double-counted one issuer's share total because the offering summary appears on both the cover and in the summary section.

Also unlocking in 2027-02 (4)

Lock-ups cluster, because IPOs cluster: these priced in the same window as BLSM and come free in the same month. Several heavy releases landing together is a different situation from one.

DealExpiryShares freeAbsorb days
ATTO
Attovia Therapeutics, Inc.
2027-02-0126.0M76.2 sessions
BRVE
Braveheart Bio, Inc.
2027-02-0251.9M139 sessions
LTGO
Latigo Biotherapeutics, Inc.
2027-02-0344.0M193 sessions
VOGX
Vogenx, Inc.
2027-02-087.7M81.5 sessions

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