The E.W. Scripps Company
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Introduction

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

Security Title Latest Reported Holdings
US:SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company 10% Owner 617,315
US:SNI / Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. 10% Owner 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 Charles E Scripps. 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 SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company - Short Term Profit Analysis

In this section, we analyze the profitability of every unplanned, open-market insider purchase made in SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company. 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 (%)
2015-08-11 SSP SCRIPPS CHARLES E 112,000 19.9512 112,000 19.9512 2,234,534 84 22.5600 292,186 13.08
2015-01-27 SSP SCRIPPS CHARLES E 82,650 16.7200 82,650 16.7200 1,381,908

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

SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company Insider Trades
Insider Sales SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company - Short Term Loss Analysis

In this section, we analyze the short-term loss avoidance of every unplanned, open-market insider sale made in SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company. 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.

SSP / The E.W. Scripps Company Insider Trades
Insider Trading History

This table shows the complete list of insider trades made by Charles E Scripps 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
2020-12-09 2020-12-04 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other 617,315 617,315 13.54 8,355,359 8,355,359
2020-12-09 2020-12-04 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other -617,315 0 -100.00 13.54 -8,355,359
2020-12-09 2020-12-04 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other 706,367 811,367 672.73 13.54 9,560,677 10,981,852
2020-12-09 2020-12-04 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other -706,367 0 -100.00 13.54 -9,560,677
2019-02-11 2019-02-11 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 811,367 0.62 18.93 94,631 15,356,094
2019-02-04 2019-02-04 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 806,367 0.62 18.49 92,460 14,911,258
2019-01-28 2019-01-28 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 801,367 0.63 18.80 94,005 15,066,501
2019-01-14 2019-01-14 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 796,367 0.63 18.27 91,363 14,551,696
2019-01-07 2019-01-07 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 791,367 0.64 17.01 85,060 13,462,735
2018-12-31 2018-12-31 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 786,367 0.64 15.49 77,459 12,182,240
2018-12-26 2018-12-24 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 781,367 0.64 15.24 76,192 11,906,861
2018-12-18 2018-12-17 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 776,367 0.65 16.12 80,625 12,518,918
2018-12-11 2018-12-10 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 771,367 0.65 16.68 83,401 12,866,556
2018-12-03 2018-12-03 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X -5,000 756,367 -0.66 17.46 -87,324 13,209,874
2018-11-26 2018-11-26 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 761,367 0.66 17.11 85,541 13,025,619
2018-11-19 2018-11-19 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 756,367 0.67 17.40 86,994 13,159,954
2018-11-13 2018-11-12 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 751,367 0.67 17.39 86,943 13,065,220
2018-11-06 2018-11-05 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 746,367 0.67 17.44 87,194 13,015,670
2018-10-30 2018-10-29 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 741,367 0.68 16.08 80,424 11,924,814
2018-10-24 2018-10-22 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 736,367 0.68 17.82 89,116 13,124,416
2018-10-24 2018-09-28 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -60,587 0 -100.00
2018-10-16 2018-10-15 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 698,824 0.72 16.42 82,110 11,476,088
2018-10-09 2018-10-08 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 693,824 0.73 16.33 81,665 11,332,227
2018-10-01 2018-10-01 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 688,824 0.73 16.38 81,900 11,282,868
2018-09-25 2018-09-24 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 683,824 0.74 16.26 81,324 11,122,261
2018-09-18 2018-09-17 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase X 5,000 678,824 0.74 16.31 81,572 11,074,606
2018-03-08 2018-03-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		U - Other -1,603,999 0 -100.00
2018-03-08 2018-03-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		U - Other -393,825 0 -100.00
2017-09-22 2017-09-20 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 60,128 393,825 18.02
2017-08-30 2017-08-29 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -5,750 333,697 -1.69
2017-03-03 2017-03-02 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -15,985 339,447 -4.50 79.36 -1,268,541 26,937,903
2017-03-03 2017-03-02 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -484,015 355,432 -57.66 78.75 -38,117,972 27,991,585
2016-12-29 2016-12-23 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -7,130 839,447 -0.84
2016-09-22 2016-09-20 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 207,845 846,577 32.54
2016-05-31 2016-05-26 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other -1,603,999 0 -100.00 62.86 -100,835,397
2016-05-31 2016-05-26 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		J - Other 1,603,999 1,603,999 62.86 100,835,397 100,835,397
2015-12-15 2015-12-14 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -120,000 638,732 -15.82 53.35 -6,401,580 34,074,117
2015-09-22 2015-09-21 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 323,839 758,732 74.46
2015-08-12 2015-08-11 4 SSP E.W. SCRIPPS Co
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase 112,000 766,954 17.10 19.95 2,234,534 15,301,653
2015-08-07 2015-08-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -1,800 434,893 -0.41 57.66 -103,780 25,073,886
2015-08-07 2015-08-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -19,504 436,693 -4.28 56.56 -1,103,148 24,699,400
2015-08-07 2015-08-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -28,600 456,197 -5.90 55.46 -1,586,125 25,300,184
2015-08-07 2015-08-06 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -7,700 484,797 -1.56 54.58 -420,245 26,458,911
2015-01-28 2015-01-27 4 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		P - Purchase 82,650 617,315 15.46 16.72 1,381,908 10,321,507
2014-09-24 2014-09-22 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 218,193 492,497 79.54
2014-09-05 2014-09-05 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -61,505 274,304 -18.32 80.35 -4,942,031 22,040,793
2014-09-05 2014-09-05 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -38,495 335,809 -10.28 79.68 -3,067,312 26,757,530
2014-09-05 2014-09-04 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -320,000 374,304 -46.09 79.76 -25,523,776 29,855,161
2014-09-05 2014-09-03 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -2,100 694,304 -0.30 80.41 -168,855 55,826,971
2014-09-05 2014-09-03 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		S - Sale -127,900 696,404 -15.52 79.40 -10,155,030 55,293,224
2014-08-04 2014-08-01 4 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -1 534,665 0.00
2014-08-04 2014-08-01 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -1 1,603,999 0.00
2013-09-20 2013-09-20 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift -819,054 824,304 -49.84
2013-03-18 2013-03-14 4 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 534,666 534,666
2013-03-18 2013-03-14 4 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 653,204 654,954 37,325.94
2013-03-18 2013-03-14 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 1,604,000 1,604,000
2013-03-18 2013-03-14 4 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		G - Gift 1,638,108 1,643,358 31,202.06
2013-01-29 3 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		1,750
2013-01-29 3 SSP SCRIPPS E W CO /DE
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		0
2013-01-29 3 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value per share 		5,250
2013-01-29 3 SNI Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Common Voting Shares, $.01 par value per share 		0
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)