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Martin Roper bought $497k of MGPI

director at MGP INGREDIENTS INC. 15,000 shares at an average of $33.10, traded May 8, 2025, filed May 8, 2025.

Conviction score
51
Value
$497k
15,000 shares
Holdings after
18,180
+472% from before
From 52-week low
+24%
low $25.66, close $31.88
From 52-week high
-61%
high $81.87, as of May 8, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $496k at market
    +18
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 472%
    +10
  • Price context
    61% below the 52-week high
    +8
  • 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.

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.

MGPIOct 9, 2026 · close 13.78
Since filing May 8, 2025: -56.8%SPY +40.1% · excess -96.8%

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 0000835011-25-000058, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 8, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+15,000$33.10$497k18,180May 8, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at MGP INGREDIENTS INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
48Moderate
MGPIsell
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Leslie Lux
owner, other
$399k
27,731 shares
-100%
55Moderate
MGPIsell 4
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Donn S. Lux
director, owner
$3.3M
100,000 shares
-4%
52Moderate
MGPIsell 4
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Caroline Lux Kaplan
owner
$1.5M
46,231 shares
-7%
25Weak
MGPIsell 410b5-1
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Karen Seaberg
director, owner
$375k
12,201 shares
-1%
10Weak
MGPIsell 410b5-1
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Lori L.S. Mingus
director
$11k
335 shares
-1%
28Weak
MGPIsell 210b5-1
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Karen Seaberg
director, owner
$1.7M
58,903 shares
-3%
3Weak
MGPIsell 210b5-1
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Lori L.S. Mingus
director
$22k
778 shares
-3%
23Weak
MGPIsell 2
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Karen Seaberg
director, owner
$21k
451 shares
-0%
58Moderate
MGPIsell 2
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Karen Seaberg
director, owner
$1.1M
23,957 shares
-44%
48Moderate
MGPIsell 2
MGP INGREDIENTS INC
Karen Seaberg
director, owner
$2.0M
43,282 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.

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