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Lawrence J Ball bought $26k of NKSH

director at NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC. 1,000 shares at an average of $25.80, traded Jun 18, 2025, filed Jun 18, 2025.

Conviction score
32
Value
$26k
1,000 shares
Holdings after
23,169
+5% from before
From 52-week low
+11%
low $22.26, close $24.71
From 52-week high
-17%
high $29.77, as of Jun 18, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $26k at market
    +5
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 4.5%
    0
  • Price context
    17% below the 52-week high
    +4
  • Cluster
    2 insiders buying within 14 days
    +8
  • 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 +9.4%, 3m +17.0%, 6m +34.1%.

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.

NKSHOct 12, 2026 · close 43.38
Since filing Jun 18, 2025: +75.5%SPY +32.4% · excess +43.2%

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 0001276854-25-000005, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Jun 18, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+1,000$25.80$26k23,169Jun 18, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
15Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Alan Jeffrey Sweet
director
$7,977
215 shares
+2%
30Weak
NKSHbuy 3
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Alan Jeffrey Sweet
director
$5,963
225 shares
+3%
37Weak
NKSHbuy 2
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Lutheria H. Smith
director
$628
24 shares
+2%
20Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Charles E Green III
director
$27k
1,000 shares
+2%
20Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Lawrence J Ball
director
$28k
1,000 shares
+5%
22Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Alan Jeffrey Sweet
director
$13k
425 shares
+6%
32Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Lawrence J Ball
director
$27k
1,000 shares
+5%
19Weak
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
John Elliott Dooley
director
$14k
470 shares
+4%
41Moderate
NKSHbuy
NATIONAL BANKSHARES INC
Lawrence J Ball
director
$25k
1,000 shares
+5%

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.

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