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Mike J Taylor bought $36k of FRD

President / CEO / Director at FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC. 2,500 shares at an average of $14.50, traded Jan 13, 2025, filed Jan 15, 2025.

Conviction score
44
Value
$36k
2,500 shares
Holdings after
166,654
+2% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $36k at market
    +6
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 1.5%
    0
  • Price context
    No price history yet
    0
  • Cluster
    2 insiders buying within 14 days
    +8
  • Repeat buying
    2 buys in 90 days
    +5
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

This signal so far: 1m +23.6%, 3m +18.6%, 6m +10.9%.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

FRDOct 9, 2026 · close 41.98
Since filing Jan 15, 2025: +200.1%SPY +33.9% · excess +166.2%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001437749-25-001202, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Jan 13, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+1,980$14.50$29k166,134Jan 15, 2025
Jan 14, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+520$14.50$7,540166,654Jan 15, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
32Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Gaurav Chhibbar
Chief Operating Officer
$6,776
400 shares
+1%
37Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$9,000
500 shares
+0%
37Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$7,200
400 shares
+0%
37Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$1,800
100 shares
+0%
32Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Gaurav Chhibbar
Chief Operating Officer
$18k
1,000 shares
+2%
37Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$11k
600 shares
+0%
37Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$9,370
500 shares
+0%
26Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Sandra Kay Scott
director
$20k
1,000 shares
+10%
34Weak
FRDbuy 2
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Mike J Taylor
President / CEO / Director
$39k
2,000 shares
+1%
23Weak
FRDbuy
FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC
Tim Scott Stevenson
director
$26k
1,500 shares
+6%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.