David Charles Adams - Insider Trading Tracker

Introduction

This page provides a comprehensive analysis of the known insider trading history of David Charles 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

Companies with Reported Insider Positions

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

How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by David Charles 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 Purchases CW / Curtiss-Wright Corporation - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in CW / Curtiss-Wright Corporation. This analysis helps to understand if the insider consistently generates abnormal returns, and is worth following. This analysis is for one-year following each trade, and the results are theoretical.

The following table shows the most recent open market purchases that were not part of an automatic trading plan.

Trade Date	Ticker	Insider	Reported Shares	Reported Price	Adjusted Shares	Adjusted Price	Cost Basis	Days to Max	Price at Max	Max Profit ($)	Max Return (%)
There are no known unplanned open-market trades for this insider and security combination

Adjusted Price is the split-adjusted price. Adjusted Shares is the split-adjusted shares.

Insider Sales CW / Curtiss-Wright Corporation - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in CW / Curtiss-Wright Corporation. A consistent pattern of loss avoidance may suggest that future sale transactions may predict declines in price. This analysis is for one-year following each trade, and the results are theoretical.

The following table shows the most recent open market sales that were not part of an automatic trading plan.

Trade Date	Ticker	Insider	Reported Shares	Reported Price	Adjusted Shares	Adjusted Price	Cost Basis	Days to Min	Price at Min	Max Loss Avoided ($)	Max Loss Avoided (%)
2023-07-20	CW	Adams David Charles	4,660	190.0000	4,660	190.0000	885,400	13	189.4900	-2,377	-0.27
2022-03-15	CW	Adams David Charles	3,910	144.6800	3,910	144.6800	565,699
2022-03-04	CW	Adams David Charles	8,910	155.9512	8,910	155.9512	1,389,525
2022-02-16	CW	Adams David Charles	4,262	137.2500	4,262	137.2500	584,960
2021-12-07	CW	Adams David Charles	10,488	133.1874	10,488	133.1874	1,396,869
2021-03-16	CW	Adams David Charles	3,201	120.3800	3,201	120.3800	385,336
2021-02-05	CW	Adams David Charles	4,005	113.3500	4,005	113.3500	453,967
2020-02-06	CW	Adams David Charles	7,253	147.9100	7,253	147.9100	1,072,791
2019-11-19	CW	Adams David Charles	4,185	140.2900	4,185	140.2900	587,114
2019-02-07	CW	Adams David Charles	9,944	115.0100	9,944	115.0100	1,143,659
2018-11-26	CW	Adams David Charles	5,620	108.7000	5,620	108.7000	610,894
2018-03-07	CW	Adams David Charles	17,414	135.0000	17,414	135.0000	2,350,890
2018-02-08	CW	Adams David Charles	13,051	120.4380	13,051	120.4380	1,571,836
2017-11-14	CW	Adams David Charles	5,270	117.7400	5,270	117.7400	620,490
2017-11-02	CW	Adams David Charles	17,000	119.0362	17,000	119.0362	2,023,615
2017-03-03	CW	Adams David Charles	16,434	97.3700	16,434	97.3700	1,600,179
2017-02-09	CW	Adams David Charles	15,270	98.0900	15,270	98.0900	1,497,834
2016-12-09	CW	Adams David Charles	6,461	106.6178	6,461	106.6178	688,858
2016-11-15	CW	Adams David Charles	5,694	97.1235	5,694	97.1235	553,021
2016-11-02	CW	Adams David Charles	27,475	89.3961	27,475	89.3961	2,456,158
2016-10-13	CW	Adams David Charles	25,655	86.2600	25,655	86.2600	2,213,000
2016-05-24	CW	Adams David Charles	14,414	81.4600	14,414	81.4600	1,174,164
2016-05-11	CW	Adams David Charles	12,000	80.2400	12,000	80.2400	962,880
2016-02-16	CW	Adams David Charles	18,666	63.2500	18,666	63.2500	1,180,624
2015-12-22	CW	Adams David Charles	7,220	66.0960	7,220	66.0960	477,213
2015-11-02	CW	Adams David Charles	62,100	69.8027	62,100	69.8027	4,334,748
2015-02-20	CW	Adams David Charles	22,037	69.3163	22,037	69.3163	1,527,523
2014-11-17	CW	Adams David Charles	26,368	69.6400	26,368	69.6400	1,836,268
2014-11-17	CW	Adams David Charles	12,669	69.8300	12,669	69.8300	884,676
2014-08-04	CW	Adams David Charles	3,220	64.5587	3,220	64.5587	207,879
2014-03-20	CW	Adams David Charles	5,439	62.3709	5,439	62.3709	339,235
2013-11-18	CW	Adams David Charles	4,559	51.2995	4,559	51.2995	233,874
2013-08-06	CW	Adams David Charles	3,436	43.0532	3,436	43.0532	147,931
2013-04-02	CW	Adams David Charles	5,457	33.6757	5,457	33.6757	183,768
2012-11-19	CW	Adams David Charles	4,108	29.8692	4,108	29.8692	122,703
2012-03-27	CW	Adams David Charles	5,143	37.8800	5,143	37.8800	194,817

Adjusted Price is the split-adjusted price. Adjusted Shares is the split-adjusted shares.

Insider Trading History

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