On Jan. four, Square (NYSE:SQ) chief executive officer Jack Dorsey converted 100,000 Class B shares into Class A shares and then sold the Square stock at an average price of $219.53.

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The stock sale is an element of planned sales by the billionaire co founder. He began the weekly sales of 100,000 shares on Nov. sixteen. Since that time, he’s sold 700,000 shares by using the latest divestiture of his on Jan. 4.

To estimate the entire sales, he probably generated $160 million in pre tax proceeds. Heck, even billionaires have bills to pay.

If you are contemplating selling based on these planned sales, don’t. Square’s got lots of space to manage in 2021.

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Square Stock Hits $300 Square stock is today trading at over $240. Since Jan. 1, the stock is up more than ten %.

And that is along with the 245 % gains it attained in 2020, something I’d a suspicion would occur. Here is what I published on Jan. 3, 2020:

Since Q3 2017, Square’s GPV [gross transaction volume] from sellers with an annual GPV of over $500,000 grew 700 basis points to 27 %. Meanwhile, those sellers with a yearly GPV of under $125,000 fallen 700 basis points to 45 %. At the same time, sellers with between $125,000 and $500,000 in GPV increased by 100 basis points to twenty eight %. Precisely why is this critical? It implies that the company’s revenue has become much more diversified; it now benefits from fee processing across businesses of all the sizes.

How is it doing a year later on this front?

In the third quarter of 2020, sellers with yearly GPV greater than $500,000 accounted for 30.6 % of the $28.8 billion in seller GPV. That is up 270 basis points from the prior 12 months. Sellers with annual GPV between $125,000 and $500,000 were $8.7 billion in Q3 2020, or maybe 10.1 % higher than in the third quarter a year earlier. These two groups accounted for sixty one % of seller GPV within Q3 2020, 500 basis points higher compared to the prior 12 months.

Of course, sellers with yearly GPV below $125,000 still accounted for 39 % of general seller GPV, however, it shows bigger companies’ acceptance fee, which is critical to its ongoing development.

To get to $300 sooner in 2021, 2 things have to keep growing: Cash App, its finance app, and Square Capital, its lending platform.