Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:SSNI / Silver Spring Networks, Inc. Vice Chairman 1,876
US:IT / Gartner, Inc. Director 27,040,128
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by John R Joyce. 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 John R Joyce 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
2014-05-14 2014-05-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -234 1,876 -11.09
2014-05-14 2014-05-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -83 63,967 -0.13 10.97 -911 701,718
2014-05-14 2014-05-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 234 64,050 0.37
2014-04-14 2014-04-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -639 63,816 -0.99 14.90 -9,521 950,858
2014-04-14 2014-04-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
A - Award 1,812 64,455 2.89
2014-03-14 2014-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -25,000 25,000 -50.00
2014-03-14 2014-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -8,309 62,643 -11.71 16.70 -138,760 1,046,138
2014-03-14 2014-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 25,000 70,952 54.40
2014-02-12 2014-02-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -235 2,110 -10.02
2014-02-12 2014-02-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -91 44,952 -0.20 15.99 -1,455 718,782
2014-02-12 2014-02-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 235 45,043 0.52
2013-11-22 2013-11-20 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 10,000 10,000
2013-11-22 2013-11-20 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 3,125 3,125
2013-11-13 2013-11-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -234 2,345 -9.07
2013-11-13 2013-11-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -107 44,808 -0.24 19.97 -2,137 894,816
2013-11-13 2013-11-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 234 44,915 0.52
2013-10-22 2013-10-20 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -20,000 20,000 -50.00
2013-10-22 2013-10-20 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -9,114 44,681 -16.94 16.69 -152,113 745,726
2013-10-22 2013-10-20 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 20,000 53,795 59.18
2013-08-26 2013-08-22 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -2,810 0 -100.00
2013-08-26 2013-08-22 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 2,810 2,810
2013-08-26 2013-08-22 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -1,281 33,795 -3.65 21.35 -27,349 721,523
2013-08-26 2013-08-22 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 2,810 35,076 8.71
2013-08-13 2013-08-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -234 2,579 -8.32
2013-08-13 2013-08-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -107 32,266 -0.33 30.35 -3,247 979,273
2013-08-13 2013-08-10 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 234 32,373 0.73
2013-05-23 2013-05-21 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -937 2,813 -24.99
2013-05-23 2013-05-21 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -427 32,139 -1.31 17.60 -7,515 565,646
2013-05-23 2013-05-21 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 937 32,566 2.96
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -5,882 0 -100.00
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 5,882 5,882
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -6,206 0 -100.00
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 6,206 6,206
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 50,000 50,000
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
M - Exercise -2,000 0 -100.00
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 2,000 2,000
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Restricted Stock Units
A - Award 3,750 3,750
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 22,500 22,500
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,681 31,629 -7.81 17.00 -45,577 537,693
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 5,882 34,310 20.69
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -2,829 28,428 -9.05 17.00 -48,093 483,276
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 6,206 31,257 24.77
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
F - Taxes -912 25,051 -3.51 17.00 -15,504 425,867
2013-03-14 2013-03-12 4 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 2,000 25,963 8.35
2013-03-12 3 SSNI SILVER SPRING NETWORKS INC
Common Stock
23,963
2006-05-22 2006-05-18 4 IT GARTNER INC
Common Stock, par value $0.0005
S - Sale -10,700,000 27,040,128 -28.35
2005-08-04 3 IT GARTNER INC
Class A Common Stock
37,740,128
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)