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Long Lara Thrush: insider trades

Officer at AGCO Corp. No open-market purchases and 10 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from May 23, 2018 to February 21, 2023.

What happened after Long Lara Thrush’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved +10.1% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 60% 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

Long Lara Thrush: 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 10 +2.5% +1.3% 50% 6 −0.09 0.93 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report 10 +10.1% −4.4% 60% 6 0.22 0.84 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade 10 +11.8% −4.5% 60% 6 0.29 0.79 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
AGCO Corp AGCO VP, Chief Accounting Officer010May 23, 2018February 21, 2023

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 21, 2023February 21, 2023 AGCO Sale $225,207 −16.7%−47.1%−47.8%
August 4, 2022August 3, 2022 AGCO Sale $99,064 +21.3%+17.2%+19.4%
March 1, 2022February 25, 2022 AGCO Sale $105,795 +8.2%+23.5%+32.4%
May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 AGCO Sale $77,465 −8.4%−4.4%−3.8%
February 24, 2021February 22, 2021 AGCO Sale $191,775 −1.7%−19.1%−9.2%
August 28, 2020August 27, 2020 AGCO Sale $11,672 +26.3%+68.6%+68.0%
May 27, 2020May 26, 2020 AGCO Sale $124,410 +8.8%+107.7%+103.2%
August 5, 2019August 2, 2019 AGCO Sale $169,914 +4.1%−20.7%−21.3%
February 25, 2019February 21, 2019 AGCO Sale $139,251 −1.5%−20.1%−18.3%
May 23, 2018May 23, 2018 AGCO Sale $18,213 −15.0%−4.4%−5.1%

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