Introduction

This page provides a comprehensive analysis of the known insider trading history of Brian J Driscoll. 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 Brian J Driscoll has reported holdings or trades in the following companies:

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:LNCE / Snyders-Lance, Inc. President & CEO, Director 0
US:DMND / Diamond Foods, Inc. President & CEO, Director 0
US:KFT / SR VICE PRES 62,360
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Brian J Driscoll. 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 Brian J Driscoll 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
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Unit
D - Sale to Issuer -4,139 0 -100.00 50.00 -206,926
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -88,039 0 -100.00 31.60 -2,782,032
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -119,914 0 -100.00 37.08 -4,446,411
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -250,585 0 -100.00 38.25 -9,584,876
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -50,676 0 -100.00 13.87 -702,876
2018-03-28 2018-03-26 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
D - Sale to Issuer -125,426 0 -100.00 50.00 -6,271,300
2017-10-13 2017-10-11 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -3,951 125,426 -3.05 38.81 -153,338 4,867,783
2017-05-18 2017-03-06 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
S - Sale -5,000 121,074 -3.97 39.49 -197,450 4,781,212
2017-05-18 2017-05-15 4/A LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
A - Award 8,303 129,377 6.86
2017-05-18 2017-05-11 4/A LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
A - Award 50,676 50,676
2017-05-15 2017-05-11 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 8,303 8,303
2017-05-15 2017-05-11 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Option (right to buy)
A - Award 50,676 50,676
2017-02-28 2017-02-23 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
LNCE STOCK OPTIONS
M - Exercise -3,744 88,039 -4.08
2017-02-28 2017-02-23 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
LNCE STOCK OPTIONS
M - Exercise -30,961 119,914 -20.52
2017-02-28 2017-02-23 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 3,744 126,074 3.06 18.40 68,890 2,319,762
2017-02-28 2017-02-23 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 30,961 122,330 33.89 12.92 400,016 1,580,504
2016-12-07 2016-12-05 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 0 -100.00 36.25 -181,250
2016-12-07 2016-09-06 4/A LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 35.42 -177,100
2016-09-08 2016-09-06 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 91,369 -5.19 35.42 -177,100 3,236,290
2016-06-01 2016-05-27 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 21 4,021 0.51
2016-05-18 2016-05-13 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 4,000 4,000
2016-05-18 2016-05-13 4/A LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 4,000 4,000
2016-03-17 2016-03-16 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$
S - Sale -15,658 62,018 -20.16 31.68 -496,092 1,964,916
2016-03-17 2016-03-15 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
S - Sale -16,192 77,676 -17.25 31.40 -508,466 2,439,205
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -47,248 0 -100.00
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Performance Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -38,914 0 -100.00
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -24,655 93,868 -20.80 31.67 -780,824 2,972,800
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 47,248 118,523 66.29
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -40,760 71,275 -36.38 31.67 -1,290,869 2,257,279
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
J - Other 78,110 112,035 230.24
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -18,621 112,035 -14.25 31.67 -589,727 3,548,148
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -1,537 130,656 -1.16 34.85 -53,564 4,553,362
2016-03-17 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 38,914 132,193 41.72
2016-03-17 2016-02-29 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
F - Taxes -13,913 93,279 -12.98 32.34 -449,946 3,016,643
2016-03-09 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -47,248 0 -100.00
2016-03-09 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
Performance Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -38,914 0 -100.00
2016-03-09 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 47,248 193,354 32.34
2016-03-09 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
M - Exercise 38,914 146,106 36.30
2016-03-09 2016-03-08 4 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
J - Other 78,110 107,192 268.59
2016-03-09 3 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
214,384
2016-03-09 3 LNCE SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC.
$.83-1/3 par value Common Stock
214,384
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units
D - Sale to Issuer -37,526 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Performance Based Restricted Stock Units
D - Sale to Issuer -34,263 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Restricted Stock Units
D - Sale to Issuer -41,604 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -80,821 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -132,855 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
D - Sale to Issuer -220,643 0 -100.00
2016-03-02 2016-02-29 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
D - Sale to Issuer -151,566 0 -100.00
2015-12-22 2015-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,962 151,566 -1.92
2015-12-16 2015-12-15 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 154,528 -3.13 39.50 -197,520 6,104,459
2015-10-16 2015-10-15 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 159,528 -3.04 31.12 -155,584 4,964,017
2015-10-13 2015-10-08 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 22,842 41,604 121.75
2015-10-13 2015-10-07 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -6,255 18,762 -25.00
2015-10-13 2015-10-07 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
M - Exercise 6,255 164,528 3.95
2015-10-09 2015-10-07 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -3,264 158,273 -2.02
2015-10-02 2015-10-02 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -4,579 161,537 -2.76
2015-06-17 2015-06-15 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 166,116 -2.92 31.49 -157,468 5,231,607
2015-05-11 2015-05-08 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -10,564 171,116 -5.81
2015-03-18 2015-03-16 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 181,680 -2.68 30.66 -153,298 5,570,218
2014-12-22 2014-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,962 186,680 -1.56
2014-12-17 2014-12-15 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
S - Sale X -5,000 189,642 -2.57 27.91 -139,564 5,293,420
2014-10-09 2014-10-07 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 25,017 25,017
2014-10-03 2014-10-02 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -4,958 194,642 -2.48
2014-05-09 2014-05-08 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -10,564 199,600 -5.03
2013-12-19 2013-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,962 210,164 -1.39
2013-10-04 2013-10-02 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 80,821 80,821
2013-10-04 2013-10-02 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
A - Award 43,082 213,126 25.34
2013-05-10 2013-05-08 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
F - Taxes -10,564 170,044 -5.85
2012-12-20 2012-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 132,855 132,855
2012-12-20 2012-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
A - Award 45,466 180,608 33.64
2012-12-20 2012-12-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
A - Award 22,699 135,142 20.19
2012-11-20 2012-11-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 220,643 220,643
2012-11-20 2012-11-19 4 DMND Diamond Foods Inc
Common Stock
A - Award 112,443 112,443
2006-01-26 2006-01-24 4 KFT KRAFT FOODS INC
CLASS A COMMON STOCK
A - Award 20,690 62,360 49.65
2004-01-16 3 KFT KRAFT FOODS INC
Class A Common Stock
8,860
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)