Ames National Corporation
US ˙ NasdaqCM ˙ US0310011004

Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:ATLO / Ames National Corporation 3,550
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Stephen C Mcgill. 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 ATLO / Ames National Corporation - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in ATLO / Ames National 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 (%)
2022-05-13 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 200 23.9100 200 23.9100 4,782 284 24.8400 186 3.89
2022-02-16 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 24.1880 100 24.1880 2,419
2021-09-08 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 23.3200 100 23.3200 2,332
2021-05-27 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 200 25.4100 200 25.4100 5,082
2020-03-10 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 25.0100 100 25.0100 2,501
2020-02-19 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 27.2500 100 27.2500 2,725
2020-02-07 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 26.9827 100 26.9827 2,698
2019-11-15 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 27.8600 100 27.8600 2,786
2019-10-29 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 27.7800 100 27.7800 2,778
2019-08-15 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 26.1200 100 26.1200 2,612
2019-08-08 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 26.4000 100 26.4000 2,640
2018-12-11 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 52 26.7200 52 26.7200 1,389
2018-12-06 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 27.8000 100 27.8000 2,780
2017-04-27 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 31.6500 100 31.6500 3,165
2016-09-07 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 100 27.3000 100 27.3000 2,730
2013-09-11 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 50 21.5000 50 21.5000 1,075
2013-05-09 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 50 20.5000 50 20.5000 1,025
2012-11-15 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 150 18.7500 150 18.7500 2,812
2012-09-13 ATLO MCGILL STEPHEN C 150 21.2400 150 21.2400 3,186

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

ATLO / Ames National Corporation Insider Trades
Insider Sales ATLO / Ames National Corporation - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in ATLO / Ames National 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 (%)
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.

ATLO / Ames National Corporation Insider Trades
Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by Stephen C Mcgill 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
2023-01-11 2022-02-16 5 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 3,550 2.90 24.19 2,419 85,867
2022-05-16 2022-05-13 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 200 3,450 6.15 23.91 4,782 82,490
2022-01-25 2021-09-08 5 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 3,250 3.17 23.32 2,332 75,790
2021-06-01 2021-05-27 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 200 3,150 6.78 25.41 5,082 80,042
2020-03-11 2020-03-10 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,950 3.51 25.01 2,501 73,780
2020-02-20 2020-02-19 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,850 3.64 27.25 2,725 77,662
2020-02-07 2020-02-07 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,750 3.77 26.98 2,698 74,202
2019-11-15 2019-11-15 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,650 3.92 27.86 2,786 73,829
2019-10-30 2019-10-29 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,550 4.08 27.78 2,778 70,839
2019-08-16 2019-08-15 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,450 4.26 26.12 2,612 63,994
2019-08-09 2019-08-08 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,350 4.44 26.40 2,640 62,040
2018-12-11 2018-12-11 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 52 2,250 2.37 26.72 1,389 60,120
2018-12-07 2018-12-06 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,198 4.77 27.80 2,780 61,104
2017-04-28 2017-04-27 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 2,098 5.01 31.65 3,165 66,402
2016-09-07 2016-09-07 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 100 1,998 5.27 27.30 2,730 54,545
2014-01-14 2013-05-09 5 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 50 1,898 2.71 20.50 1,025 38,909
2013-09-12 2013-09-11 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 50 1,848 2.78 21.50 1,075 39,732
2012-11-19 2012-11-15 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common Stock 		P - Purchase 150 1,798 9.10 18.75 2,812 33,712
2012-09-14 2012-09-13 4 ATLO AMES NATIONAL CORP
Common stock 		P - Purchase 150 1,648 10.01 21.24 3,186 35,004
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)