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Edward P Garden bought $66M of MIDD

director at MIDDLEBY Corp. 452,397 shares at an average of $144.90, traded May 9, 2025, filed May 13, 2025.

Conviction score
55
Value
$66M
452,397 shares
Holdings after
3,088,263
+17% from before
From 52-week low
+13%
low $99.77, close $112.24
From 52-week high
-19%
high $139.09, as of May 9, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $65.6M at market
    +25
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 17%
    +3
  • Price context
    19% 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.

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.

MIDDOct 9, 2026 · close 105.95
Since filing May 13, 2025: -12.2%SPY +34.9% · excess -47.0%

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 0001213900-25-042875, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 9, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Please see explanation below
+120,916$138.87$17M2,756,782May 13, 2025
May 9, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Please see explanation below
+82,142$139.52$11M2,838,924May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Please see explanation below
+15,473$147.80$2.3M2,854,397May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Please see explanation below
+27,592$148.99$4.1M2,881,989May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: Please see explanation below
+206,274$149.81$31M3,088,263May 13, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at MIDDLEBY Corp and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
52Moderate
MIDDbuy 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Edward P Garden
director
$15M
102,903 shares
+3%
37Weak
MIDDbuy 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Robert A Nerbonne
director
$100k
780 shares
+4%
57Moderate
MIDDbuy 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Edward P Garden
director
$20M
137,000 shares
+4%
53Moderate
MIDDbuy 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Edward P Garden
director
$7.7M
51,571 shares
+2%
51Moderate
MIDDbuy 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Stephen R. Scherger
director
$293k
2,000 shares
+89%
31Weak
MIDDsell 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Cathy L McCarthy
director
$71k
500 shares
-5%
29Weak
MIDDsell 2
MIDDLEBY Corp
Chapin Sarah Palisi
director
$34k
250 shares
-4%

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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