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Hallmark Financial Services Inc Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by SCHWARZ MARK E, was filed 02 Jun 2022.
Hallmark Financial Services Inc: what insiders have been doing
This page follows insider dealings at Hallmark Financial Services Inc as filed with SEC (Form 4), a company from the Finance & Banking sector. No insider at Hallmark Financial Services Inc has published a filing in the past twelve months. The most recent one dates from 2 June 2022.
Our records for Hallmark Financial Services Inc go back to 2016, with 6 purchases and 5 sales on the open market in total.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Dynex Capital Inc and Presurance Holdings, Inc. Every figure here comes from the filings published by SEC (Form 4) and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.
Insider Decl.
16
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€390,336
6 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€300,217
5 ops. · all time
Since the insiders bought
- -77.7%Entry US$24.20 · Close at T+365 US$5.40
- -83.0%Entry US$42.60 · Close at T+365 US$7.24
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Financial data
as of FY 2022FY ended December 2022 · cache
US$0.08
Analyst consensus
Income statement
RevenueUS$159.9M
EBITDA-US$91.8M-57% margin
Net income-US$108.1M-48.1% margin
Valuation
Beta-11.05
Balance sheet & cash
Total debtUS$105.4M
Free Cash Flow-US$167.3M
Profitability & ownership
ROE-357.5%
ROA-4.5%
% institutions0.0%
Last declaration on 2 June 2022
Declarations16 total
00Common StockSEC:0001181580-22-000013:0
Canonical exit: 29 Aug 2022 (T+90)
1,179 shares@ US$0.89100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001181580-22-000012:0
Canonical exit: 29 Aug 2022 (T+90)
30,000 shares@ US$4.64100.0% of flowCOMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-22-000003:0
Canonical exit: 6 Apr 2022 (T+90)
6,500 shares@ US$16.38COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000008:0
Canonical exit: 12 Nov 2019 (T+90)
4,900 shares@ US$10.52COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000007:0
2,549 shares@ US$10.53COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000007:1
2,301 shares@ US$10.43COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000007:2
15,000 shares@ US$6.61COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000007:3
128,225 shares@ US$10.31Common StockSEC:0001181580-19-000005:0
200,000 shares@ US$6.61Common StockSEC:0001181580-19-000005:1
6,140 shares@ US$9.95COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000002:0
15,000 shares@ US$6.61COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-19-000002:1
21,500 shares@ US$6.61COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-18-000006:0
18,498 shares@ US$9.94COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-18-000006:1
10,600 shares@ US$9.34COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-18-000004:0
Canonical exit: 12 Jun 2018 (T+90)
10,300 shares@ US$9.84COMMON STOCKSEC:0001181580-16-000034:0
Canonical exit: 31 Aug 2016 (T+90)
16 of 16 declarations
About Hallmark Financial Services Inc
Hallmark Financial Services Inc. is a U.S.-based specialty insurance group that has historically been associated with the Nasdaq market, where it traded under the ticker HALL. For international investors, the company belongs to the property-and-casualty insurance universe and is best understood as a niche underwriter rather than a broad-based mass-market insurer. Its corporate base is in the United States, with a long-standing headquarters footprint in Fort Worth, Texas. Hallmark was founded in 1987, giving it decades of operating history in specialty lines and underwriting-focused insurance businesses. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1453820/000089322009000101/w72350exv99w1.htm?utm_source=openai))
Hallmark’s core business has centered on marketing, underwriting, distributing, and servicing specialty P&C insurance products. Across its reporting history, the company has offered commercial auto, commercial general liability, umbrella and excess liability, commercial property, excess and surplus lines coverages, professional liability, general aviation, and various specialty program products. The firm’s model has relied on independent agents, specialty brokers, and other targeted distribution channels, reflecting a selective underwriting approach aimed at risks that require specialized market knowledge and pricing discipline. This positioning has traditionally placed Hallmark in a differentiated segment of the U.S. insurance market, where expertise and risk selection matter more than scale alone. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/819913/000155837022003764/hall-20211231x10k.htm?utm_source=openai))
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From a competitive standpoint, Hallmark has operated as a mid-sized specialty carrier focused on narrower lines and targeted geographies rather than a diversified insurance conglomerate. That can be an advantage when underwriting conditions are favorable, but it also makes results more sensitive to loss trends, pricing cycles, reserve development, and portfolio mix changes. SEC materials indicate that the company has served customers across the United States and maintained offices in several major business hubs, including Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, underscoring its national distribution footprint. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/819913/000114420418026156/tv493446_ex99-1.htm?utm_source=openai))
A major recent development is that Hallmark faced Nasdaq compliance issues in 2023, including a notice that it no longer met the exchange’s minimum market value of publicly held shares requirement, followed by a voluntary delisting process communicated later in 2023. For investors, that is an important signal: the company’s market profile has been under pressure, and the equity story should be viewed through the lens of restructuring, balance-sheet resilience, and the economics of the remaining insurance portfolio rather than as a straightforward growth narrative. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/819913/000155837023016194/hall-20230928x8k.htm?utm_source=openai))
For a French-speaking investor audience, Hallmark Financial Services Inc. is therefore best categorized as a specialty insurance name with a Texas headquarters, U.S. operations, and a history of technical underwriting in property-and-casualty niches. Its recent listing challenges make insider Form 4 activity especially relevant, because management transactions can provide useful context on confidence, alignment, and the company’s broader strategic direction. ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1453820/000089322009000101/w72350exv99w1.htm?utm_source=openai))
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