The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.
US ˙ NYSE ˙ US3936571013

Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. Director 13,909
US:HTH / Hilltop Holdings Inc. COO of Subsidiaries, Director 360,085
US: / PlainsCapital Corp President and COO, Director 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 James R Huffines. 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 GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.. 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 (%)
2025-08-08 GBX Huffines James R 2,500 44.8433 2,500 44.8433 112,108 5 47.6300 6,967 6.21

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

GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. Insider Trades
Insider Sales GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.. 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 (%)
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.

GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. Insider Trades
Insider Purchases HTH / Hilltop Holdings Inc. - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.. 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 (%)
2015-05-15 HTH Huffines James R 5,000 21.2486 5,000 21.2486 106,243 39 24.5 16,257 15.30
2015-03-10 HTH Huffines James R 5,000 19.2109 5,000 19.2109 96,054
2015-03-05 HTH Huffines James R 5,000 18.9476 5,000 18.9476 94,738
2013-08-09 HTH Huffines James R 7,500 15.6904 7,500 15.6904 117,678
2013-08-08 HTH Huffines James R 5,000 15.6450 5,000 15.6450 78,225
2013-05-28 HTH Huffines James R 19,200 15.9700 19,200 15.9700 306,624
2013-05-08 HTH Huffines James R 11,000 14.4700 11,000 14.4700 159,170

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

HTH / Hilltop Holdings Inc. Insider Trades
Insider Sales HTH / Hilltop Holdings Inc. - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in GBX / The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.. 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 (%)
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.

HTH / Hilltop Holdings Inc. Insider Trades
Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by James R Huffines 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
2025-08-11 2025-08-08 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
P - Purchase 2,500 13,909 21.91 44.84 112,108 623,725
2025-01-07 2025-01-05 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise -3,996 11,409 -25.94
2024-12-02 2024-11-27 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 17 15,405 0.11
2024-08-15 2024-08-13 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 25 15,388 0.16
2024-05-16 2024-05-14 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 21 15,363 0.14
2024-02-20 2024-02-15 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 23 15,342 0.15
2024-01-09 2024-01-05 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 3,910 15,319 34.27
2023-12-01 2023-11-29 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 32 15,594 0.21
2023-08-10 2023-08-08 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 25 15,562 0.16
2023-05-18 2023-05-16 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 41 15,537 0.26
2023-02-21 2023-02-16 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 37 15,496 0.24
2023-01-10 2023-01-06 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 4,050 15,459 35.50
2022-11-30 2022-11-29 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 23 14,827 0.16
2022-08-22 2022-08-18 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 27 14,804 0.18
2022-05-11 2022-05-10 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 21 14,777 0.14
2022-02-18 2022-02-17 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 20 14,756 0.14
2022-01-11 2022-01-07 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 3,327 14,736 29.16
2021-12-06 2021-12-02 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 9 11,409 0.08
2021-08-03 3 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
10,000
2021-08-03 2021-07-30 4 GBX GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
Common Stock
A - Award 1,400 11,400 14.00
2017-02-28 2017-02-24 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,417 360,085 -0.67 28.06 -67,821 10,103,985
2017-02-28 2017-02-24 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 6,666 362,502 1.87
2017-02-27 2017-02-23 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 7,033 355,836 2.02
2016-12-01 2016-11-30 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
G - Gift -1,500 348,803 -0.43
2016-11-23 2016-11-22 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
G - Gift -5,300 350,303 -1.49
2016-02-25 2016-02-23 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 13,183 355,603 3.85
2015-05-18 2015-05-15 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 5,000 342,420 1.48 21.25 106,243 7,275,946
2015-03-12 2015-03-10 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 5,000 337,420 1.50 19.21 96,054 6,482,142
2015-03-10 2015-03-05 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 5,000 332,420 1.53 18.95 94,738 6,298,561
2015-02-26 2015-02-24 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 10,803 327,420 3.41
2014-02-26 2014-02-24 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 8,887 315,666 2.90
2013-08-12 2013-08-09 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 7,500 306,779 2.51 15.69 117,678 4,813,485
2013-08-12 2013-08-08 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 5,000 299,279 1.70 15.64 78,225 4,682,220
2013-05-30 2013-05-28 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 19,200 294,279 6.98 15.97 306,624 4,699,636
2013-05-10 2013-05-08 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
P - Purchase 11,000 275,079 4.17 14.47 159,170 3,980,393
2013-05-06 2013-05-02 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 30,000 264,079 12.82
2012-12-04 2012-11-30 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Original Common Stock
D - Sale to Issuer -9,122 0 -100.00
2012-12-04 2012-11-30 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Original Common Stock
D - Sale to Issuer -266,756 0 -100.00
2012-12-04 3 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
20,000
2012-12-04 3 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
47,000
2012-12-04 2012-11-30 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 7,078 7,078
2012-12-04 2012-11-30 4 HTH Hilltop Holdings Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 207,002 227,002 1,035.01
2012-09-12 2012-09-10 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Employee stock option (right to buy)
M - Exercise -5,400 0 -100.00
2012-09-12 2012-09-10 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Original Common Stock
M - Exercise 5,400 266,756 2.07 10.88 58,755 2,902,465
2012-04-03 2012-04-01 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Original Common Stock
A - Award 23,988 261,356 10.11
2012-02-07 2012-02-06 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Employee stock option (right to buy)
M - Exercise -5,184 0 -100.00
2012-02-07 2012-02-06 4 NONE PLAINSCAPITAL CORP
Original Common Stock
M - Exercise 5,184 237,368 2.23 6.69 34,700 1,588,870
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)