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Furner John R.: insider trades

Officer at Walmart. No open-market purchases and 11 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from November 17, 2017 to February 23, 2022.

What happened after Furner John R.’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved +7.9% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 27% 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

Furner John R.: 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 11 +2.8% 0.0% 55% 6 0.55 0.61 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report 11 +7.9% +9.6% 27% 6 0.58 0.59 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade 11 +7.7% +8.0% 36% 6 0.78 0.47 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
Walmart WMT Executive Vice President011November 17, 2017February 23, 2022

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
February 23, 2022February 18, 2022 WMT Sale $2,084,802 −0.7%+12.4%+12.9%
May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 WMT Sale $3,829,410 −0.5%−8.1%−9.8%
February 26, 2020February 24, 2020 WMT Sale $5,825,000 +10.6%−10.6%−4.0%
November 19, 2019November 15, 2019 WMT Sale $703,400 −6.2%+12.6%+12.0%
August 20, 2019August 19, 2019 WMT Sale $906,288 −0.1%+0.6%+2.3%
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 WMT Sale $1,018,200 +9.2%+20.4%+23.6%
February 22, 2019February 20, 2019 WMT Sale $1,061,573 +3.1%+3.8%−3.1%
November 29, 2018November 28, 2018 WMT Sale $389,360 0.0%+9.6%+8.0%
September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 WMT Sale $904,947 +13.2%+24.9%+25.3%
June 8, 2018June 6, 2018 WMT Sale $1,572,685 +11.7%+26.4%+22.5%
November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 WMT Sale $119,148 −9.5%−5.3%−4.6%

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