James W. Terry Jr.

Filings by James W. Terry Jr. span 2 companies, the busiest being Ascent Industries Co. and South Financial Group Inc. In total, 52 filings cover trades dated from 16 January 2006 to 13 March 2020.

In open-market terms, that means 18 purchases worth €211k on one side and 1 sale worth €116k on the other. Taken together, the purchases exceed the sales by €95k. Open-market purchases are the filings investors watch most closely, because the insider pays for the shares out of pocket. Outside the open market, there are 17 share grants and 1 option exercise. So far in 2020, the count stands at 1 purchase and no sales.

In size, the median ticket on the buying side is €6,705. Of 3 purchases, 3 formed part of a group of insiders buying within 30 days of each other. A cluster is several different insiders buying the same stock within a short window, a pattern studied more closely than a single purchase. Looking at 18 purchases old enough to measure, the stock rose over the following 90 days in 44% of cases; the median change was -3.1%. These figures describe past trades and do not predict future prices.

Most recently, on 13 March 2020, the filings show an open-market purchase worth €4,662 in Ascent Industries Co. Typically, a trade is published a median of 2 days after it takes place. For comparison, the SEC allows two business days to file a Form 4. Source: insider filings from SEC (Form 4). Past trades are no guide to future returns.