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Leonard Powell Mertz bought $250k of ACOG

director at Alpha Cognition Inc.. 27,778 shares at an average of $9.00, traded Aug 18, 2025, filed Aug 20, 2025.

Conviction score
46
Value
$250k
27,778 shares
Holdings after
121,503
+30% from before
From 52-week low
+125%
low $3.75, close $8.44
From 52-week high
-25%
high $11.24, as of Aug 18, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $250k at market
    +13
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 30%
    +6
  • Price context
    25% 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 (1 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 +0.3%, 3m -26.0%, 6m -27.5%.

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.

ACOGOct 9, 2026 · close 9.04
Since filing Aug 20, 2025: +13.1%SPY +23.6% · excess -10.5%

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 0000912282-25-000889, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Aug 18, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Sharesindirect: by The Len Mertz Trust
+27,778$9.00$250k121,503Aug 20, 2025

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18Weak
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37Weak
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16Weak
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58Moderate
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31Weak
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42Moderate
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$184k
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+1%

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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