Introduction

This page provides a comprehensive analysis of the known insider trading history of Charles (Hal) Adams. Insiders are officers, directors, or significant investors in a company. It is illegal for insiders to make trades in their companies based on specific, non-public information. This does not mean it is illegal for them to make any trades in their own companies. However, they must report all trades to the SEC via a Form 4. Despite these restrictions, academic research suggests that insiders - in general - tend to outperform the market in their own companies.

Average Trade Profitability

The average trade profitability is the average return of all the open market purchases made by the insider in the last three years. To calculate this, we examine every open-market, unplanned purchase made by the insider, excluding all trades that were marked as part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. We then calculate the average performance of those trades over 3, 6, and 12 months, averaging each of those durations to generate a final performance metric for each trade. Finally, we average all of the performance metrics to calculate a performance metric for the insider. This list only includes insiders that have made at least three trades in the last two years.

If this insiders trade profitability is "N/A", then the insider either has not made any open-market purchases in the last three years, or the trades they’ve made are too recent to calculate a reliable performance metric.

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Companies with Reported Insider Positions

The SEC filings indicate Charles (Hal) Adams has reported holdings or trades in the following companies:

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:CST / CST Brands, Inc. President Retail Operations 0
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Charles (Hal) Adams. Non-planned trade are trades that were not made as part of a 10b5-1 trading plan. The stock performance is charted as cumulative percent change in share price. For example, if an insider trade was made on January 1, 2019, the chart will show the daily percent change of the security to the present day. If the share price were to go from $10 to $15 during this time, the cumulative percent change in share price would be 50%. A change in price from $10 to $20 would be 100%, and a change in price of $10 to $5 would be -50%.

Ultimately, we are trying to determine how closely the insider’s trades correlate to excess returns (positive or negative) in the share price in order to see if the insider is timing their trades to profit from insider information. Consider the situation where an insider was doing this. In this situation, we would expect either (a) positive returns after purchases, or (b) negative returns after sales. In the case of (a), the PURCHASE chart would show a series of upwardly sloping curves, indicating positive returns after each purchase transaction. In the case of (b), the SALE chart would show a series of downward sloping curves, indicating negative returns after each sale transaction.

However, this alone is not enough to draw conclusions. If, for example, the share price of the company was in a non-cyclical climb over many years, then we would expect all the post-purchase plots to be upwardly sloping. Likewise, non-cyclical declines over many years would result in downward sloping post-trade plots. Neither of these charts would suggest insider trading activity.

The strongest indicator would be a situation where the share price was extremely cyclical, and there were both positive signals in the PURCHASE chart and negative plots on the SALE chart. This situation would be highly suggestive of an insider that was timing trades to their financial advantage.

Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by Charles (Hal) Adams as disclosed to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

File Date Tran Date Form Ticker Security Code 10b5-1 Shares Remaining Shares Percent
Change		 Share
Price		 Tran
Value		 Remaining
Value
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Market Stock Unit 		M - Exercise 11,542 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		M - Exercise 10,751 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		M - Exercise 20,094 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise 1,868 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise 5,734 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise 20,685 0 -100.00
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		D - Sale to Issuer -70,674 11,310 -86.20 48.53 -3,429,809 548,874
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 11,542 70,674 19.52
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 10,751 59,132 22.22 48.53 521,746 2,869,676
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 20,094 48,381 71.04 48.53 975,162 2,347,930
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 1,868 28,287 7.07
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 5,734 26,419 27.72
2017-06-30 2017-06-28 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 20,685 20,685
2017-03-14 2017-03-10 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -2,939 0 -100.00
2017-03-14 2017-03-10 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		F - Taxes -1,164 10,182 -10.26 48.30 -56,227 491,842
2017-03-14 2017-03-10 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 2,939 11,346 34.96
2017-03-14 2017-03-12 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -1,868 1,868 -50.00
2017-03-14 2017-03-12 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		F - Taxes -740 11,310 -6.14 48.32 -35,760 546,556
2017-03-14 2017-03-12 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 1,868 12,050 18.35
2017-03-09 2017-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -2,867 5,734 -33.33
2017-03-09 2017-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		F - Taxes -1,136 8,407 -11.90 48.30 -54,863 406,016
2017-03-09 2017-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 2,867 9,543 42.94
2017-02-21 2017-02-16 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		A - Award 20,685 20,685
2017-01-17 2017-01-09 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		S - Sale -7,000 4,775 -59.45 48.20 -337,414 230,165
2016-05-09 2016-05-06 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		F - Taxes -2,517 11,775 -17.61 36.63 -92,198 431,318
2016-03-14 2016-03-12 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -1,868 3,736 -33.33
2016-03-14 2016-03-12 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 1,868 14,292 15.04
2016-03-14 2016-03-08 4/A CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Market Stock Unit 		A - Award 8,128 8,128
2016-03-11 2016-03-10 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -2,939 2,939 -50.00
2016-03-11 2016-03-10 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 2,939 12,424 30.99
2016-03-10 2016-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Market Stock Unit 		A - Award 8,600 8,600
2016-03-10 2016-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		A - Award 30,141 30,141
2016-03-10 2016-03-08 4 CST CST BRANDS, INC.
Restricted Stock Units 		A - Award 8,601 8,601
2015-03-16 2015-03-12 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		A - Award 32,252 32,252
2015-03-16 2015-03-12 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Restricted Stock Units 		A - Award 5,604 5,604
2015-03-12 2015-03-10 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Restricted Stock Units 		M - Exercise -2,939 5,878 -33.33
2015-03-12 2015-03-10 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		F - Taxes -1,098 9,485 -10.38 42.06 -46,182 398,939
2015-03-12 2015-03-10 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		M - Exercise 2,939 10,583 38.45
2014-03-12 2014-03-10 4 cst CST Brands, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		A - Award 23,367 23,367
2014-03-12 2014-03-10 4 cst CST Brands, Inc.
Restricted Stock Units 		A - Award 8,817 8,817
2014-02-13 2013-05-01 5 cst CST Brands, Inc.
Common Stock 		J - Other 1,641 7,641 27.35
2013-05-08 2013-05-06 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy) 		A - Award 15,000 15,000
2013-05-08 2013-05-06 4 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Common Stock, Par Value $0.01 		A - Award 6,000 6,000
2013-04-11 3 CST CST Brands, Inc.
Common Stock 		0
P
Open market or private purchase of non-derivative or derivative security
S
Open market or private sale of non-derivative or derivative security
A
Grant, award, or other acquisition of securities from the company (such as an option)
C
Conversion of derivative
D
Sale or transfer of securities back to the company
F
Payment of exercise price or tax liability using portion of securities received from the company
G
Gift of securities by or to the insider
K
Equity swaps and similar hedging transactions
M
Exercise or conversion of derivative security received from the company (such as an option)
V
A transaction voluntarily reported on Form 4
J
Other (accompanied by a footnote describing the transaction)