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James Defranco bought $1.5M of ECHO

director at EchoStar CORP. 110,000 shares at an average of $13.48, traded Mar 8, 2024, filed Mar 12, 2024.

Conviction score
63
Value
$1.5M
110,000 shares
Holdings after
306,951
+56% from before
From 52-week low
+42%
low $9.68, close $13.78
From 52-week high
-42%
high $23.74, as of Mar 8, 2024

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $1.5M at market
    +25
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 56%
    +10
  • Price context
    42% 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 -5.2%, 3m +17.2%, 6m +41.1%.

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.

ECHOOct 12, 2026 · close 95.10
Since filing Mar 12, 2024: +524.0%SPY +55.5% · excess +468.5%

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 0001415889-24-007697, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Mar 8, 2024POpen-market purchase
Class A Common Stock
+110,000$13.48$1.5M306,951Mar 12, 2024

Related signals

Other insiders at EchoStar CORP and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
60Notable
ECHOsell 2
EchoStar CORP
William David Wade
director
$460k
5,000 shares
-94%
50Moderate
ECHOsell 2
EchoStar CORP
Stephen J Bye
director
$764k
8,508 shares
-204%
33Weak
ECHOsell 210b5-1
EchoStar CORP
Dean Manson
CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
$1.3M
10,000 shares
-90%
23Weak
ECHOsell 210b5-1
EchoStar CORP
Hamid Akhavan
CEO, EchoStar Capital
$6.4M
52,586 shares
-6%
33Weak
ECHOsell 210b5-1
EchoStar CORP
Dean Manson
CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
$1.2M
10,000 shares
-66%
50Moderate
ECHOsell 3
EchoStar CORP
Hamid Akhavan
CEO, EchoStar Capital
$7.6M
71,005 shares
-8%
60Notable
ECHOsell 3
EchoStar CORP
Dean Manson
CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
$2.2M
19,031 shares
-190%
50Moderate
ECHOsell 3
EchoStar CORP
John Swieringa
PRES, TECH & COO
$5.7M
50,088 shares
-19%
33Weak
ECHOsell 210b5-1
EchoStar CORP
Hamid Akhavan
CEO, EchoStar Capital
$30M
285,832 shares
-43%
30Weak
ECHOsell 2
EchoStar CORP
Tom A Ortolf
director
$183k
1,754 shares
-32%

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.

James Defranco bought $1.5M of ECHO | InsiderTell