W. James Farrell

W. James Farrell discloses dealings in 6 companies, chiefly Illinois Tool Works Inc, Abbott Laboratories and 3M Co. The record holds 54 filings, for trades running from 8 August 1998 to 29 April 2016.

In open-market terms, that means 2 purchases worth €603k on one side and 3 sales worth €5.0M on the other. Netting one side against the other leaves €4.4M of net selling. A purchase on the market is a deliberate choice to commit personal money, which is why it draws more attention than a grant. The rest of the record consists of 38 share grants and 3 option exercises.

The record was last updated on 3 May 2016 with a share grant in Abbott Laboratories. The clock since the last published purchase (26 August 2013) now reads 4,822 days. Typically, a trade is published a median of 4 days after it takes place. For comparison, the SEC allows two business days to file a Form 4. Sales are harder to read than purchases, since they often meet personal needs such as tax or diversification. Every figure here comes from the filings published by SEC (Form 4) and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.