ContraFect Corporation
US ˙ OTCPK ˙ US2123264093

Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:SLS / SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. Director 23,082
US:PGNX / Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Director 25,000
US:CFRX / ContraFect Corp Director 31,540
How to Interpret the Charts

The following charts show the stock performance of securities subsequent to each open-market, non-planned trade made by David A Scheinberg. 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 CFRXQ / ContraFect Corporation - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in CFRXQ / ContraFect 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 (%)
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.

CFRXQ / ContraFect Corporation Insider Trades
Insider Sales CFRXQ / ContraFect Corporation - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in CFRXQ / ContraFect 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.

CFRXQ / ContraFect Corporation Insider Trades
Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by David A Scheinberg 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
2025-01-14 2025-01-10 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 12,500 23,082 118.13
2024-01-25 2024-01-22 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 6,000 10,582 130.95
2023-02-03 2023-02-02 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 2,500 4,582 120.08
2022-02-01 2022-01-31 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 7,125 7,125
2022-02-01 2022-01-31 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 1,900 2,082 1,043.96
2021-03-08 2021-03-04 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 7,500 7,500
2020-03-16 2020-03-12 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 6,500 6,500
2019-07-15 2019-07-11 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 25,000 25,000
2019-07-03 2019-07-01 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)
M - Exercise -10,000 0 -100.00
2019-07-03 2019-07-01 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 10,000 56,185 21.65 5.33 53,300 299,466
2019-03-18 2019-03-14 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 25,000 25,000
2018-06-14 2018-06-13 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 25,000 25,000
2018-06-13 2018-06-12 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 5,500 5,500
2018-03-16 2017-12-29 4/A SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 9,107 9,107
2018-03-15 2018-03-13 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 11,000 11,000
2017-12-29 2017-12-29 4 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
A - Award 9,107 9,107
2017-12-29 3 SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Common Stock
0
2017-06-15 2017-06-14 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 20,000 20,000
2016-06-09 2016-06-08 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)
A - Award 20,000 20,000
2015-06-11 2015-06-10 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 20,000 20,000 6.72 134,400 134,400
2014-07-28 3 CFRX CONTRAFECT Corp
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share
31,540
2014-07-28 3 CFRX CONTRAFECT Corp
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share
31,540
2014-07-28 3 CFRX CONTRAFECT Corp
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share
31,540
2014-07-28 3 CFRX CONTRAFECT Corp
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share
31,540
2014-06-19 2014-06-17 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 20,000 20,000 4.47 89,400 89,400
2013-06-20 2013-06-12 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 20,000 20,000 4.76 95,200 95,200
2013-03-22 2013-03-22 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise -1,250 46,185 -2.64 4.81 -6,011 222,104
2013-03-22 2013-03-22 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise 1,250 47,435 2.71 2.47 3,086 117,117
2013-03-21 2013-03-21 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
M - Exercise 1,250 1,250 2.47 3,086 3,086
2012-06-14 2012-06-13 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
A - Award 10,000 10,000 7.93 79,300 79,300
2012-02-27 2012-02-23 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
M - Exercise X -1,250 0 -100.00 10.00 -12,500
2012-02-27 2012-02-23 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)
M - Exercise X 1,250 1,250 6.90 8,625 8,625
2012-02-27 2012-02-23 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Common Stock
S - Sale X -1,250 46,185 -2.64 10.00 -12,500 461,850
2012-02-27 2012-02-23 4 PGNX PROGENICS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Common Stock
M - Exercise X 1,250 47,435 2.71 6.90 8,625 327,302
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)