Caputo Arthur G: insider trades

Officer at Waters Corporation. No open-market purchases and 14 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from November 8, 2010 to August 18, 2016.

What happened after Caputo Arthur G’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved −1.4% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 71% trailed it.

With 296 insiders tested, some will look skilled or unskilled by chance alone: when we replaced each insider’s stocks with random companies bought on the same days, about 5.7 cleared the bar ahead and 23.3 behind. One record on its own proves little.

Trade by trade

Caputo Arthur G: trades against the S&P 500 afterwards
Measured	Trades counted	Average vs S&P 500	Median	Went the right way	Years	t-statistic	p-value	Evidence
Purchases, 3 months after the report	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	Not enough years
Purchases, 6 months after the report	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	Not enough years
Purchases, 12 months after the report	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	Not enough years
Purchases, 12 months after the trade	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	Not enough years
Sales, 3 months after the report	14	−3.9%	−2.6%	71%	6	−1.98	0.10	No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report	14	−1.4%	−2.5%	71%	6	−1.32	0.24	No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade	14	−1.3%	−1.9%	71%	6	−1.41	0.22	No reliable evidence

“Average vs S&P 500” is the stock’s return including dividends minus the index’s over the same dates, from the close on the first trading day after the report, or from the close on the trade date. Only windows that have finished are counted. For sales, a negative figure means the stock lagged after it was sold, so selling was the right call (green). “Went the right way” is the share of purchases that beat the index, or of sales that trailed it. The t-statistic uses one average per year of reports, because one person’s trades bunch into the same stock and weeks, and needs trades in at least four different years; the p-value comes from the t distribution with that number of years (with four years, a t of 2 has p = 0.14). “Some evidence” means p under 5%, “strong evidence” p under 1% over at least six years.

Companies traded

Company	Title on the latest filing	Purchases	Sales	First report	Latest report
Waters Corporation WAT	EVP and President, Waters Div	0	14	November 8, 2010	August 18, 2016

Trades and what followed

Moves are against the S&P 500; green means the trade went the insider’s way.

Reported	Traded	Company	Trade	Value	3 months after report	12 months after report	12 months after trade
August 18, 2016	August 17, 2016	WAT	Sale	$16,612,614	−14.1%	−1.0%	+0.1%
August 17, 2016	August 16, 2016	WAT	Sale	$826,786	−11.6%	−0.2%	−0.3%
August 16, 2016	August 15, 2016	WAT	Sale	$15,923,000	−11.2%	+0.1%	−2.0%
November 23, 2015	November 20, 2015	WAT	Sale	$8,376,756	−2.0%	−3.5%	−4.1%
November 20, 2015	November 19, 2015	WAT	Sale	$27,074,316	−3.0%	−6.6%	−4.3%
November 19, 2015	November 18, 2015	WAT	Sale	$145,871	−2.2%	−4.1%	−1.9%
November 18, 2015	November 17, 2015	WAT	Sale	$1,915,517	−0.7%	−4.3%	−1.5%
December 10, 2014	December 9, 2014	WAT	Sale	$936,790	+7.2%	+13.4%	+10.1%
December 8, 2014	December 5, 2014	WAT	Sale	$58,295	+4.7%	+10.1%	+11.1%
December 5, 2014	December 4, 2014	WAT	Sale	$11,664,000	+4.3%	+10.7%	+9.5%
February 3, 2014	January 30, 2014	WAT	Sale	$13,751,250	−10.3%	−5.4%	−5.0%
May 29, 2013	May 28, 2013	WAT	Sale	$9,929,000	+1.5%	−16.0%	−16.5%
February 2, 2012	January 31, 2012	WAT	Sale	$5,190,600	−9.0%	−11.8%	−10.2%
November 8, 2010	November 5, 2010	WAT	Sale	$3,882,000	−8.2%	−1.4%	−3.4%

Open-market purchases and sales of at least $10,000 in companies we cover, from SEC Form 4 filings; sales made under a pre-set Rule 10b5-1 plan are not shown. “Not yet” means the window has not finished or the share price was under $5 at entry. These are the shares’ moves after each trade: they say nothing about why Caputo Arthur G traded and do not suggest the use of non-public information. How every insider compares · the insider trading backtest.