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Tulenko Stephen T: insider trades

Officer at Moody's Corporation. No open-market purchases and 19 sales not made under a pre-set plan, reported from February 27, 2020 to August 5, 2025.

What happened after Tulenko Stephen T’s sales?

After their sales, the shares moved −10.5% against the index over 12 months on average (a negative figure means selling was the right call); 74% 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

Tulenko Stephen T: 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 −1.4% −1.1% 53% 6 −0.15 0.89 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the report 19 −10.5% −9.6% 74% 6 −1.58 0.18 No reliable evidence
Sales, 12 months after the trade 19 −9.9% −12.9% 74% 6 −1.46 0.20 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
Moody's Corporation MCO President, Moody's Analytics019February 27, 2020August 5, 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
August 5, 2025August 4, 2025 MCO Sale $155,688 −12.6%−30.5%−29.4%
July 31, 2025July 30, 2025 MCO Sale $1,083,952 −13.9%−28.1%−24.9%
March 6, 2025March 5, 2025 MCO Sale $2,429,010 +1.8%−20.2%−18.0%
February 28, 2025February 26, 2025 MCO Sale $1,742,104 −6.0%−24.2%−20.4%
August 12, 2024August 9, 2024 MCO Sale $232,030 −7.6%−8.0%−9.6%
August 7, 2024August 5, 2024 MCO Sale $705,315 −11.2%−9.5%−6.1%
August 2, 2024July 31, 2024 MCO Sale $525,118 −6.8%−6.1%−1.3%
July 30, 2024July 29, 2024 MCO Sale $2,691,594 −4.9%−1.3%−2.1%
March 7, 2023March 3, 2023 MCO Sale $837,238 +4.3%+2.6%+1.9%
May 19, 2022May 18, 2022 MCO Sale $309,089 −1.1%+1.1%+5.0%
May 18, 2022May 17, 2022 MCO Sale $1,136,872 +1.3%+5.4%+4.2%
August 17, 2021August 16, 2021 MCO Sale $1,153,153 +0.4%−12.4%−13.0%
March 1, 2021February 25, 2021 MCO Sale $245,594 +9.0%+2.8%+3.5%
February 25, 2021February 24, 2021 MCO Sale $318,993 +11.0%+2.0%+5.9%
May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 MCO Sale $252,740 −5.6%−16.2%−15.8%
May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 MCO Sale $506,440 −7.6%−14.2%−12.9%
March 5, 2020March 4, 2020 MCO Sale $165,138 +9.6%−8.3%−18.7%
March 3, 2020March 2, 2020 MCO Sale $838,248 +4.7%−18.7%−18.2%
February 27, 2020February 26, 2020 MCO Sale $1,351,870 +8.3%−15.3%−17.9%

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