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WallStPal Score: Rating Every Insider Purchase · https://wallstpal.com/score/ · saved 2026-10-28

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WallStPal explains public SEC filings and congressional stock trade reports in plain English. Nothing is for sale; the site is free and supported by ads.

How to read it

Form 4: The form a company insider (officer, director or owner of more than 10%) must file with the SEC within two business days of buying or selling the company's shares.
13F: A quarterly list of U.S. stocks held by an investment manager with more than $100 million, filed within 45 days after each quarter ends.
STOCK Act: A 2012 law that requires members of Congress to report stock trades by themselves, a spouse or a dependent child within 45 days.

A real example

In January 2016, when bank stocks were falling, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon bought 500,000 JPMorgan shares with his own money, worth about $26 million. His Form 4 made the purchase public within days, and investors read it as a strong sign of confidence.

Explain it like I'm 13

We read the long, boring forms that grown-ups file with the government and tell you what they say in normal words.

Data from public SEC filings and congressional reports. Information, not investment advice. Check every number against the filing linked on the page.

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Our method0 to 100

The WallStPal Score

Not every insider purchase means the same thing. The score rates each one from 0 to 100 using only facts in the filing, so you can see at a glance which purchases say the most.

Highest-scoring purchases, last 30 days

Filed	Stock	Insider	Value	Score	Why
Oct 16	BORR	Harvey Edward SnowlingCOO	$1.47M	67	raised their holding by 206%; a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 1	GPUS	Milton C. Ault IIIExecutive Chair	$5.05M	65	raised their holding by 285%; a large purchase; 3 other insiders also bought
Sep 30	BBD	Di Marcello FrancescoExecutive Officer	$1.00M	65	raised their holding by 102%; a large purchase; 21 other insiders also bought
Oct 2	PORT	Jeb S. SpencerCEO	$5.00M	64	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 9	BBD	Rubens Aguiar AlvarezDirector	$32.0M	62	raised their holding by 100%; a large purchase; 21 other insiders also bought
Sep 29	ADRX	Simeon GeorgeDirector	$27.2M	62	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 4 other insiders also bought
Sep 29	BPRE	Ramin KamfarDirector	$1.94M	62	raised their holding by 87%; a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought
Sep 29	BPRE	Ramin KamfarDirector	$1.34M	62	raised their holding by 165%; a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought
Oct 1	XENE	Ian MortimerCEO	$1.12M	61	raised their holding by 151%; a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 13	HEI	Victor H. MendelsonCEO	$175K	60	a brand-new position; 7 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 20	DX	Smriti Laxman PopenoeCEO	$157K	60	a brand-new position; 3 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 21	RAPP	Troy A. IgnelziCFO	$144K	60	raised their holding by 55%; 5 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Sep 29	BPRE	Ramin KamfarDirector	$812K	59	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought
Sep 29	ADRX	Sr One Capital Management, LLC10% owner	$27.2M	58	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 4 other insiders also bought
Oct 2	NYAX	Yair NechmadCEO	$2.11M	58	a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; the stock had fallen 30.4% in the 13 weeks before; bought by a top executive
Sep 30	NYAX	Yair NechmadCEO	$1.09M	58	a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; the stock had fallen 30.4% in the 13 weeks before; bought by a top executive
Sep 30	NYAX	Yair NechmadCEO	$1.02M	58	a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; the stock had fallen 30.4% in the 13 weeks before; bought by a top executive
Oct 1	XENE	Thomas Patrick KellyCFO	$560K	58	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 5	BBD	Denise Aguiar AlvarezDirector	$33.6M	57	raised their holding by 34%; a large purchase; 21 other insiders also bought
Oct 5	ACCV	Michael RubieraCEO	$3.60M	57	a large purchase; 4 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Sep 29	BPRE	Ramin KamfarDirector	$1.43M	57	raised their holding by 34%; a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought
Oct 15	BBD	De Oliveira Andre Luis DuarteExecutive Officer	$1.15M	57	raised their holding by 26%; a large purchase; 21 other insiders also bought
Oct 2	FGBI	Edgar R. Smith IIIDirector	$822K	57	a large purchase; 2 other insiders also bought; the stock had fallen 25.3% in the 13 weeks before
Sep 28	INR	Cary D. BaetzCFO	$296K	57	a brand-new position; 1 other insider also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 22	RAPP	Steven M. PaulDirector	$974K	56	raised their holding by 86%; a large purchase; 5 other insiders also bought
Oct 8	FUL	R. Jeffrey BaillyDirector	$500K	56	a brand-new position; a large purchase; 8 other insiders also bought
Oct 5	BBD	Denise Aguiar AlvarezDirector	$5.76M	55	a large purchase; 20 other insiders also bought; the stock had fallen 12.1% in the 13 weeks before
Oct 1	DKS	Matthew BarnesPresident	$500K	55	raised their holding by 44%; 3 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Oct 7	AGMB	Pierre Thadee Victor KemulaCFO	$86K	55	a brand-new position; 2 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive
Sep 28	GPUS	Milton C. Ault IIIExecutive Chair	$84K	55	3 other insiders also bought; the stock had fallen 47.2% in the 13 weeks before

How the score is built

Part	Points	What it means
Size of the purchase	up to 20	Bigger purchases with the insider's own money say more. $1 million or more scores 17; $5 million or more scores 20.
Size compared with what they already own	up to 20	Buying a first stake, or raising a holding by half or more, scores 20. Adding 3% to a large holding scores 2.
First purchase in a long time	up to 15	An insider who has not bought in three years or more scores 15. We only count years our records cover.
Other insiders buying too	up to 15	Two or more other insiders buying $10,000 or more within 30 days scores 15; one scores 9.
Bought after the price fell	up to 15	If the stock fell 30% or more in the 13 weeks before, 15 points. Buying into a falling price is a stronger statement.
Who bought	up to 15	Chief executive, finance chief, president or operating chief: 15. Other officers 10, directors 7, 10% owners 3.
Made under a 10b5-1 plan	minus 20	A purchase scheduled in advance under a trading plan says less about what the insider thinks today.

The total is kept between 0 and 100. 65 or more is High, 40 to 64 Medium, below 40 Low. A purchase whose filed price looks mistyped gets no score.

Does a higher score mean anything?

For every scored purchase old enough to measure, the stock's change afterward minus the S&P 500's change over the same weeks.

Still being measured. A purchase can only be checked three months after it is made, and we show results only once every score group has at least 30 purchases, so a few lucky or unlucky trades cannot mislead. So far: High 12, Medium 143, Low 391 purchases measured at three months. This fills in as our history grows.

Only purchases reported within 30 days are counted. Weekly prices from SEC fails-to-deliver data; the S&P 500 is measured with SPY. Past results do not predict future ones, and the score is not a recommendation to buy anything.

Examples

A high score. In January 2016, with bank stocks falling, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon bought 500,000 JPMorgan shares worth about $26 million. A chief executive, a very large purchase, and buying after a price drop: that combination would score near the top.

A low score. A director buying $5,000 of stock each quarter under a 10b5-1 plan, adding a few percent to a large holding, scores low. It is a routine, scheduled purchase.

Explain it like I'm 13

Imagine the coach of your team spends their own allowance on tickets to the team's next game. If it's a huge amount, if they've never done it before, if two other coaches did it too, and if everyone else thinks the team is bad right now, that tells you the coach really believes in the team. The score adds up those clues into one number.