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Steffensen Dwight: insider trades

Director at TD Synnex Corp. No open-market purchases and 19 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from May 3, 2011 to July 26, 2021.

What happened after Steffensen Dwight’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved +10.7% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 42% 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

Steffensen Dwight: trades against the S&P 500 afterwards
MeasuredTrades countedAverage vs S&P 500MedianWent the right wayYearst-statisticp-valueEvidence
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 19 +2.8% −1.3% 53% 10 0.46 0.66 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report 19 +10.7% +4.7% 42% 10 0.67 0.52 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade 19 +9.9% −1.1% 53% 10 0.55 0.59 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

CompanyTitle on the latest filingPurchasesSalesFirst reportLatest report
TD Synnex Corp SNX —019May 3, 2011July 26, 2021

Trades and what followed

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

ReportedTradedCompanyTradeValue3 months after report12 months after report12 months after trade
July 26, 2021July 23, 2021 SNX Sale $12,959 −13.7%−8.4%−7.8%
July 1, 2021June 29, 2021 SNX Sale $61,255 −12.3%−13.4%−15.6%
January 22, 2021January 21, 2021 SNX Sale $44,995 +32.2%+2.3%−1.1%
October 26, 2020October 23, 2020 SNX Sale $75,618 +11.3%+14.1%+12.9%
July 21, 2020July 20, 2020 SNX Sale $63,823 +13.9%+53.4%+51.5%
March 31, 2020March 30, 2020 SNX Sale $26,191 +37.2%+162.0%+156.9%
January 24, 2020January 22, 2020 SNX Sale $106,996 −32.3%+4.7%+7.2%
July 8, 2019July 5, 2019 SNX Sale $37,054 +18.2%+14.5%+9.3%
April 4, 2019April 3, 2019 SNX Sale $130,484 −8.0%−22.7%−17.0%
October 24, 2018October 23, 2018 SNX Sale $232,858 +25.1%+40.0%+34.3%
April 19, 2018April 18, 2018 SNX Sale $314,250 −9.8%−6.3%−4.8%
July 31, 2017July 27, 2017 SNX Sale $242,183 +7.7%−35.7%−36.6%
July 17, 2017July 13, 2017 SNX Sale $359,424 +6.1%−32.6%−31.8%
August 3, 2015July 30, 2015 SNX Sale $150,300 +15.9%+28.4%+30.0%
April 25, 2014April 23, 2014 SNX Sale $217,730 −8.4%+5.0%−1.3%
October 8, 2013October 4, 2013 SNX Sale $620,310 −1.2%−12.4%−14.0%
January 31, 2013January 29, 2013 SNX Sale $253,173 −11.5%+25.6%+35.7%
May 1, 2012April 27, 2012 SNX Sale $309,306 −9.6%−23.1%−27.6%
May 3, 2011April 29, 2011 SNX Sale $834,895 −8.0%+7.8%+8.9%

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 Steffensen Dwight traded and do not suggest the use of non-public information. How every insider compares · the insider trading backtest.