CVGW insider buying – Calavo Growers Inc
16 insider purchases since 2016 worth $16.1M by 5 different insiders. Last 12 months: 0 purchases, $0. Most recent filing: 2025-04-17.
Same time range as the chart above - each mark sits under the week of the trade. Circles = purchases (height = price paid, size = amount), red triangles = open-market sales of $50k+. Prices as reported, not adjusted for later stock splits. 4 older purchases (before the 5-year window) are listed in the table below.
Purchases are open-market buys (SEC Form 4, code "P") - insiders paying with their own money. Sales are open-market sales (code "S") of $50,000 or more; many sales are pre-planned (Rule 10b5-1) or made for taxes and diversification. Each row links to the original filing.
Bought, sold, still holding?
| Insider | Bought | First / last buy | Sold since 2016 | Holds now* | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLE LECIL E CEO | $15.3M 8× · 412,942 sh | 2017-03-09 2025-04-15 | 8× · $30.1M last 2020-01-10 | 574,225 shares as of 2025-04-17 | Holds (sold earlier) |
| Browne Michael A CEO | $402,516 4× · 14,200 sh | 2017-03-09 2025-04-10 | 3× · $1.3M last 2019-06-20 | 14,800 shares as of 2025-04-10 | Holds (sold earlier) |
| Hollister Steve Director | $241,780 2× · 7,000 sh | 2021-09-14 2023-07-14 | 2× · $138,456 last 2019-09-13 | 0 shares as of 2026-05-28 | Sold everything |
| Snyder James E CFO | $74,959 1× · 3,213 sh | 2025-04-10 2025-04-10 | 3× · $407,505 last 2019-02-26 | 0 shares as of 2026-05-28 | Sold everything |
| HOLMGREN KATHLEEN M Director | $68,000 1× · 1,000 sh | 2017-07-06 2017-07-06 | – | 0 shares as of 2026-05-28 | Sold everything |
* Shares held after the insider's most recent SEC filing for this company (all share classes, direct and indirect). If an insider stops filing, later changes are not known.
Insider buying and selling by year
| Year | Purchases | Bought | Buyers | Sales | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | $2.8M | 3 | – | – |
| 2023 | 5 | $5.0M | 3 | – | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – | – | 1 | $64,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | $180,600 | 1 | 3 | $425,830 |
| 2020 | 0 | – | – | 8 | $5.8M |
| 2019 | 0 | – | – | 17 | $20.9M |
| 2018 | 0 | – | – | 12 | $15.0M |
| 2017 | 4 | $8.2M | 3 | 5 | $629,013 |
| 2016 | 0 | – | – | 8 | $5.4M |
Insider purchases
| Filed | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price | Value | Holdings | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-17 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 40,775 | $24.57 | $1.0M | +7.1% | SEC |
| 2025-04-17 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 38,155 | $24.60 | $938,613 | +7.1% | SEC |
| 2025-04-15 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 21,070 | $23.73 | $499,991 | +4.1% | SEC |
| 2025-04-10 | Snyder James E | CFO | 3,213 | $23.33 | $74,959 | +165.3% | SEC |
| 2025-04-10 | Browne Michael A | CEO | 5,000 | $23.12 | $115,600 | +357.1% | SEC |
| 2025-04-03 | Browne Michael A | CEO | 6,000 | $23.69 | $142,140 | +400.0% | SEC |
| 2023-09-20 | Browne Michael A | CEO | 1,200 | $28.15 | $33,776 | +400.0% | SEC |
| 2023-07-17 | Hollister Steve | Director | 2,000 | $30.59 | $61,180 | +5.8% | SEC |
| 2023-07-14 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 75,000 | $30.34 | $2.3M | +17.0% | SEC |
| 2023-03-29 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 50,000 | $27.96 | $1.4M | +12.8% | SEC |
| 2023-03-23 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 50,000 | $24.29 | $1.2M | +14.7% | SEC |
| 2021-09-16 | Hollister Steve | CEO | 5,000 | $36.12 | $180,600 | +21.4% | SEC |
| 2017-07-10 | HOLMGREN KATHLEEN M | Director | 1,000 | $68.00 | $68,000 | +57.1% | SEC |
| 2017-04-13 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 42,942 | $61.78 | $2.7M | +7.6% | SEC |
| 2017-03-13 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 95,000 | $56.42 | $5.4M | +20.3% | SEC |
| 2017-03-09 | Browne Michael A | Officer | 2,000 | $55.50 | $111,000 | +12.4% | SEC |
Insider sales
| Filed | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price | Value | Type | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-18 | HELIN JAMES D | Director | 2,000 | $32.00 | $64,000 | Sale | SEC |
| 2021-04-19 | SANDERS DONALD M | Director | 2,000 | $80.00 | $160,000 | Sale | SEC |
| 2021-04-09 | DiGregorio Michael Anthony | Director | 1,000 | $78.54 | $78,540 | Sale | SEC |
| 2021-03-18 | WEDIN ROBERT J | Officer | 2,335 | $80.21 | $187,290 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-06-25 | Edwards Harold S | Director | 1,600 | $61.42 | $98,272 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-04-15 | Brown Marc Laurence | Director | 1,000 | $63.59 | $63,590 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-17 | Araiza Ronald Anthony | Officer | 3,000 | $86.07 | $258,210 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-14 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 2,100 | $83.01 | $174,321 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-10 | Lindeman Bruce John | CFO | 2,500 | $85.25 | $213,125 | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-10 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 41,752 | $83.52 | $3.5M | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-08 | COLE LECIL E | CEO | 17,181 | $86.28 | $1.5M | Sale | SEC |
| 2020-01-06 | Hollister Steve | Director | 800 | $90.69 | $72,556 | Sale | SEC |
| 2019-10-15 | Brown Marc Laurence | Director | 1,000 | $94.47 | $94,470 | Sale | SEC |
| 2019-09-10 | Brown Marc Laurence | Director | 1,000 | $93.20 | $93,200 | Sale | SEC |
| 2019-07-26 | VAN DER KAR SCOTT | Director | 525 | $95.43 | $50,101 | Sale | SEC |
Showing the latest 15 of 54 sales of $50,000+ since 2016.
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