Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:BYND / Beyond Meat, Inc. Director 790,204
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Seth Goldman. 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 Seth Goldman 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
2024-05-24 2024-05-23 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		A - Award 14,895 790,204 1.92
2023-05-26 2023-05-24 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		A - Award 8,228 775,309 1.07
2022-05-26 2022-05-24 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		A - Award 2,982 767,081 0.39
2021-05-21 2021-05-19 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		A - Award 842 64,057 1.33
2021-01-08 2021-01-07 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Stock Option (right to buy) 		M - Exercise -43,749 61,251 -41.67
2021-01-08 2021-01-07 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Stock Option (right to buy) 		M - Exercise -19,466 9,689 -66.77
2021-01-08 2021-01-07 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		M - Exercise 43,749 63,215 224.75 25.00 1,093,725 1,580,375
2021-01-08 2021-01-07 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		M - Exercise 19,466 19,466 3.00 58,398 58,398
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Stock Option (right to buy) 		M - Exercise -9,601 29,155 -24.77
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Stock Option (right to buy) 		M - Exercise -20,133 0 -100.00
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -1,004 178,659 -0.56 148.57 -149,164 26,543,260
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -9,000 179,663 -4.77 147.98 -1,331,860 26,587,321
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -6,020 188,663 -3.09 146.92 -884,470 27,718,726
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -3,100 194,683 -1.57 146.01 -452,621 28,425,061
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -8,945 197,783 -4.33 144.78 -1,295,089 28,635,735
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -6,189 206,728 -2.91 143.81 -890,018 29,728,830
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -15,492 212,917 -6.78 142.91 -2,214,027 30,428,863
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -6,500 228,409 -2.77 142.05 -923,302 32,444,676
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -768 700,042 -0.11 148.64 -114,154 104,052,563
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -10,563 700,810 -1.48 148.07 -1,564,053 103,768,236
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -9,324 711,373 -1.29 147.00 -1,370,643 104,572,969
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -3,740 720,697 -0.52 146.10 -546,404 105,291,814
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -12,668 724,437 -1.72 144.93 -1,835,958 104,991,785
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -8,550 737,105 -1.15 144.10 -1,232,095 106,220,295
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -16,620 745,655 -2.18 143.07 -2,377,762 106,678,102
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -9,017 762,275 -1.17 142.18 -1,282,050 108,381,327
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		M - Exercise 9,601 771,292 1.26 3.00 28,803 2,313,876
2020-09-23 2020-09-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		M - Exercise 20,133 761,691 2.71 0.95 19,126 723,606
2020-08-31 2020-08-27 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -7,405 234,909 -3.06 131.25 -971,916 30,832,112
2020-08-31 2020-08-27 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -11,345 242,314 -4.47 130.45 -1,479,935 31,609,425
2020-08-31 2020-08-27 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -9,644 741,558 -1.28 131.25 -1,265,788 97,330,452
2020-08-31 2020-08-27 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		S - Sale X -14,106 751,202 -1.84 130.44 -1,839,942 97,984,385
2020-05-26 2020-05-21 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		A - Award 1,006 672,950 0.15
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Series H Convertible Preferred Stock 		C - Conversion -41,271 0 -100.00
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Series F Convertible Preferred Stock 		C - Conversion -51,087 0 -100.00
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock 		C - Conversion -44,294 0 -100.00
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock 		C - Conversion -20,911 0 -100.00
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock 		C - Conversion -188,454 0 -100.00
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		C - Conversion 41,271 92,358 80.79
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		C - Conversion 51,087 51,087
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		C - Conversion 44,294 253,659 21.16
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		C - Conversion 20,911 209,365 11.10
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		C - Conversion 188,454 188,454
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 300 300 25.00 7,500 7,500
2019-05-08 2019-05-06 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 450 672,394 0.07
2019-05-03 2019-05-01 4 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Stock Option (right to buy) 		A - Award 105,000 105,000
2019-05-01 3 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		1,343,888
2019-05-01 3 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		1,343,888
2019-05-01 3 BYND BEYOND MEAT, INC.
Common Stock 		1,343,888
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)