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W Whitney George bought $2.4M of FUND

director, owner, other at SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.. 323,896 shares at an average of $7.27, traded Dec 30, 2024, filed Jan 2, 2025.

Conviction score
43
Value
$2.4M
323,896 shares
Holdings after
106,325
+11% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $2.4M at market
    +25
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 11%
    +3
  • Price context
    No price history yet
    0
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • 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 +3.3%, 3m -1.5%, 6m +9.2%.

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.

FUNDOct 12, 2026 · close 9.79
Since filing Jan 2, 2025: +49.4%SPY +35.7% · excess +13.7%

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 0000950170-25-000627, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Spouse
+88,629$7.27$644k3,065,806Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Trust
+7,954$7.27$58k275,574Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Trust
+9,545$7.27$69k330,659Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+106,939$7.27$777k7,813,063Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Trust
+38,259$7.27$278k1,325,367Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Foundation
+69,501$7.27$505k2,407,652Jan 2, 2025
Dec 30, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Held by Trust
+3,069$7.27$22k106,325Jan 2, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC. and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
40Moderate
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$1.8M
181,813 shares
+2%
38Weak
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$848k
88,058 shares
+1%
45Moderate
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$1.2M
135,086 shares
+2%
15Weak
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$16k
1,785 shares
+0%
26Weak
FUNDsell
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$157k
17,700 shares
-5%
40Moderate
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$2.3M
270,237 shares
+3%
20Weak
FUNDsell
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
Thomas W Ulrich
See Remarks
$9,314
1,117 shares
-12%
40Moderate
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$1.5M
179,607 shares
+2%
28Weak
FUNDsell
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$244k
29,800 shares
-9%
40Moderate
FUNDbuy
SPROTT FOCUS TRUST INC.
W Whitney George
director, owner, other
$1.5M
196,329 shares
+2%

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.