Weatherford International plc
US ˙ NasdaqGS ˙ IE00BLNN3691

Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:WFT / Weatherford International plc EVP - Corporate Strategy 597,273
EVP & Chf Operating Officer 530,778
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by Dharmesh Mehta. 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 WFRD / Weatherford International plc - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in WFRD / Weatherford International plc. 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 (%)
2014-10-31 WFT Mehta Dharmesh 10,000 16.0000 10,000 16.0000 160,000 731

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

WFRD / Weatherford International plc Insider Trades
Insider Sales WFRD / Weatherford International plc - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in WFRD / Weatherford International plc. 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.

WFRD / Weatherford International plc Insider Trades
Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by Dharmesh Mehta 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
2015-04-08 2015-04-08 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -6,327 597,273 -1.05 13.56 -85,794 8,099,022
2015-04-08 2015-04-08 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
A - Award 15,082 603,600 2.56
2015-03-23 2015-03-23 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -12,950 588,518 -2.15 11.88 -153,846 6,991,594
2015-03-09 2015-03-07 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -17,435 601,468 -2.82 12.55 -218,809 7,548,423
2015-03-02 2015-02-27 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -12,885 618,903 -2.04 12.53 -161,449 7,754,855
2015-02-02 2015-02-02 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -980 631,788 -0.15 10.33 -10,123 6,526,370
2015-01-29 2015-01-27 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Performance Units
A - Award 89,206 89,206
2015-01-29 2015-01-27 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
A - Award 89,206 632,768 16.41
2015-01-08 2015-01-08 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -614 543,562 -0.11 10.71 -6,576 5,821,549
2015-01-08 2015-01-08 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
A - Award 1,878 544,176 0.35
2014-11-03 2014-10-31 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
P - Purchase 10,000 542,824 1.88 16.00 160,000 8,685,184
2014-10-02 2014-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -526 532,298 -0.10 20.80 -10,941 11,071,798
2014-10-02 2014-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
A - Award 1,252 532,824 0.24
2014-07-02 2014-07-01 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
F - Taxes -574 531,572 -0.11 23.00 -13,202 12,226,156
2014-07-02 2014-07-01 4 WFT Weatherford International plc
Ordinary Shares
A - Award 1,368 532,146 0.26
2014-04-14 2014-04-12 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -2,797 530,778 -0.52 16.78 -46,934 8,906,455
2014-04-02 2014-04-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -4,842 533,575 -0.90 17.36 -84,057 9,262,862
2014-04-02 2014-04-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 11,540 538,417 2.19
2014-03-24 2014-03-23 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -12,950 526,877 -2.40 16.78 -217,301 8,840,996
2014-03-07 2014-03-07 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes 11,360 539,827 2.15 17.21 195,506 9,290,423
2014-03-03 2014-02-27 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Performance Units
A - Award 92,138 92,138
2014-03-03 2014-02-27 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 92,138 551,187 20.07
2014-02-13 2014-02-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes 935 459,049 0.20 13.54 12,660 6,215,523
2014-01-06 2014-01-03 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -552 459,984 -0.12 15.18 -8,379 6,982,557
2014-01-06 2014-01-03 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 1,688 460,536 0.37
2013-10-03 2013-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -767 458,848 -0.17 15.33 -11,758 7,034,140
2013-10-03 2013-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 1,828 459,615 0.40
2013-09-16 2013-09-16 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 10,000 457,787 2.23 14.97 149,700 6,853,071
2013-07-03 2013-07-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -705 447,787 -0.16 13.70 -9,658 6,134,682
2013-07-03 2013-07-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 2,023 448,492 0.45
2013-04-12 2013-04-12 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -1,824 446,469 -0.41 12.74 -23,238 5,688,015
2013-04-02 2013-04-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -923 447,465 -0.21 12.14 -11,205 5,432,225
2013-04-02 2013-04-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 3,373 448,388 0.76
2013-03-25 2013-03-23 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -8,443 445,015 -1.86 11.52 -97,263 5,126,573
2013-03-11 2013-03-07 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Performance Units
A - Award 124,678 124,678
2013-03-11 2013-03-07 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 124,678 453,458 37.92
2013-02-04 2013-02-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -967 328,780 -0.29 13.43 -12,987 4,415,515
2013-01-04 2013-01-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -690 329,747 -0.21 11.19 -7,721 3,689,869
2013-01-04 2013-01-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 2,112 330,437 0.64
2012-12-28 2012-12-28 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 40,000 328,325 13.87 10.59 423,600 3,476,962
2012-12-26 2012-12-24 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 30,000 288,325 11.61 10.63 318,900 3,064,895
2012-11-15 2012-11-15 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 5,000 258,325 1.97 9.02 45,100 2,330,092
2012-11-15 2012-11-15 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 20,000 253,325 8.57 9.05 181,000 2,292,591
2012-10-03 2012-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -491 233,325 -0.21 12.68 -6,226 2,958,561
2012-10-03 2012-10-01 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 1,853 233,816 0.80
2012-09-04 2012-09-04 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 5,000 231,963 2.20 11.62 58,100 2,695,410
2012-07-03 2012-07-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -468 226,963 -0.21 12.63 -5,911 2,866,543
2012-07-03 2012-07-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 1,769 227,431 0.78
2012-05-15 2012-05-15 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 5,000 225,662 2.27 12.50 62,500 2,820,775
2012-05-03 2012-05-03 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
P - Purchase 10,000 220,662 4.75 13.90 139,000 3,067,202
2012-04-12 2012-04-12 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -1,764 210,662 -0.83 13.78 -24,308 2,902,922
2012-04-04 2012-04-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -373 212,426 -0.18 15.31 -5,711 3,252,242
2012-04-04 2012-04-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 1,408 212,799 0.67
2012-03-26 2012-03-26 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Performance Units
A - Award 46,302 46,302
2012-03-26 2012-03-26 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Performance Units
A - Award 46,302 46,302
2012-03-26 2012-03-23 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 92,604 211,391 77.96
2012-03-06 2012-03-06 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -882 118,787 -0.74 16.42 -14,482 1,950,483
2012-02-06 2012-02-02 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -920 119,669 -0.76 17.03 -15,668 2,037,963
2012-01-04 2011-10-03 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
F - Taxes -202 120,549 -0.17 14.64 -2,957 1,764,837
2012-01-04 2011-10-03 4 WFT Weatherford International Ltd./Switzerland
Registered Shares
A - Award 763 120,825 0.64
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)