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Tarun Lal bought $70k of PLAY

Chief Executive Officer at Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.. 3,500 shares at an average of $19.91, traded Sep 18, 2025, filed Mar 27, 2026.

Conviction score
52
Value
$70k
3,500 shares
Holdings after
11,560
+43% from before
From 52-week low
+27%
low $16.06, close $20.39
From 52-week high
-51%
high $42.02, as of Sep 18, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $70k at market
    +8
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 43%
    +6
  • Price context
    51% below the 52-week high
    +8
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • Repeat buying
    2 buys in 90 days
    +5
  • 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 +25.7%, 3m +20.5%, 6m -32.5%.

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.

PLAYOct 12, 2026 · close 7.09
Since filing Mar 27, 2026: -27.7%SPY +23.3% · excess -51.0%

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 0001193125-26-130006, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Sep 18, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+2,500$20.52$51k10,560Mar 27, 2026
Oct 21, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+1,000$18.39$18k11,560Mar 27, 2026

Related signals

Other insiders at Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
53Moderate
PLAYbuy 2
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Cory Hatton
Interim CFO
$26k
4,000 shares
+4%
60Notable
PLAYbuy 2
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Nathaniel Lipman
director
$81k
12,000 shares
+64%
60Notable
PLAYbuy 2
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Nathaniel Lipman
director
$81k
12,000 shares
+64%
30Weak
PLAYsell
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Steve Klohn
SVP Chief Information Officer
$103k
6,989 shares
-15%
26Weak
PLAYbuy
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Rodolfo Rodriguez Jr
SVP, Chief Legal Officer
$15k
730 shares
+5%
50Moderate
PLAYbuy
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Tarun Lal
Chief Executive Officer
$252k
8,060 shares
-
32Weak
PLAYsell
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
John Mulleady
SVP, RE & Dev
$194k
5,931 shares
-12%
32Weak
PLAYsell
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
John Mulleady
SVP, RE & Dev
$176k
6,000 shares
-10%
69Notable
PLAYbuy 4
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Kevin M Sheehan
Interim CEO
$503k
19,025 shares
+38%
49Moderate
PLAYbuy 4
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Hamish Dodds
director
$273k
10,000 shares
+34%

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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