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Murano Elsa A: insider trades

Director at Hormel Foods. No open-market purchases and 20 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from June 4, 2014 to December 15, 2025.

What happened after Murano Elsa A’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved −6.2% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 53% 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

Murano Elsa A: 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 20 −1.4% −1.9% 60% 12 −0.86 0.41 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report 19 −6.2% −7.8% 53% 12 −1.48 0.17 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade 19 −5.9% −9.2% 58% 12 −1.56 0.15 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
Hormel Foods HRL —020June 4, 2014December 15, 2025

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
December 15, 2025December 11, 2025 HRL Sale $321,600 −1.7%not yetnot yet
March 31, 2025March 27, 2025 HRL Sale $136,800 −9.7%−43.1%−33.4%
April 3, 2024April 2, 2024 HRL Sale $151,059 −21.6%−11.0%−12.3%
December 14, 2023December 13, 2023 HRL Sale $285,300 +1.7%−22.8%−25.8%
April 5, 2023April 3, 2023 HRL Sale $243,000 −10.2%−38.4%−36.9%
April 4, 2022March 31, 2022 HRL Sale $257,850 +6.3%−13.4%−12.4%
April 7, 2021April 6, 2021 HRL Sale $288,360 −4.2%+3.4%−4.1%
June 23, 2020June 19, 2020 HRL Sale $258,693 −6.2%−40.6%−37.9%
January 13, 2020January 10, 2020 HRL Sale $201,999 +22.3%−19.4%−17.5%
June 5, 2019June 4, 2019 HRL Sale $284,480 −2.0%+3.7%+7.0%
April 10, 2019April 9, 2019 HRL Sale $189,585 −5.1%+18.7%+18.5%
January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 HRL Sale $243,936 −13.9%−22.6%−21.2%
April 12, 2018April 11, 2018 HRL Sale $212,716 +1.9%+8.1%+8.5%
January 5, 2018January 4, 2018 HRL Sale $256,644 +0.4%+23.6%+22.7%
April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 HRL Sale $258,750 −6.3%−7.8%−9.2%
April 6, 2016April 5, 2016 HRL Sale $258,023 −16.6%−35.0%−35.0%
July 13, 2015July 9, 2015 HRL Sale $130,110 +18.1%+23.1%+23.9%
July 1, 2015June 29, 2015 HRL Sale $156,066 +18.5%+26.2%+25.2%
September 9, 2014September 4, 2014 HRL Sale $49,829 +0.3%+23.2%+22.9%
June 4, 2014June 2, 2014 HRL Sale $245,700 −0.3%+5.8%+5.5%

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