VVV

VALVOLINE INC

Energy Miscellaneous Products of Petroleum & Coal Market cap: $3.9B All insider activity → Quote and statistics → Sign in to watch VVV Sign in to set a price alert

AI summary Cluster Open-Market Purchases by Valvoline Executives and Directors

Insider Score Band below 60

Research score: 46
AI adjustment: +4

Research score, not a recommendation.

Total bought$450.9K3 Form 4 purchases

Distinct insiders3open-market buyers

Lead insiderWILLIS J KEVINCFO

Cluster window2026-05-14 → 2026-05-15active

Market data

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Why this score

Research score: a weighted blend of the five factors, times the routine and offering discounts, minus the selling penalty.

Breadth number & diversity of participating insiders

37%

Seniority executive rank of buyers (CEO/CFO/Director)

86%

Commitment purchase size relative to company & holdings

54%

Context buying into stock weakness signals conviction

44%

Timing coordinated purchases within a tight window

100%

Routine-purchase discount × 1.00

Company-type / offering discount × 1.00

Net insider selling penalty − 6

Why are they buying?

AI · discretionary · catalyst none · partial

The CFO and multiple directors made open-market purchases of company stock without an explicit corporate announcement or filing footnote indicating a pre-arranged plan, suggesting independent accumulation.

Insiders including the CFO J. Kevin Willis and directors Richard Freeland and Jennifer Slater collectively bought shares in the open market between May 14 and May 15, 2026.

Filing references and sources

Valvoline Strategy and Business Model (opens in a new tab)

Stock Price & Insider Purchase History

Daily close price with open-market insider purchases plotted over time

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Transactions

3 Form 4 trades · 3 insiders Sign in to download CSV

Purchases in this cluster, grouped by insider, largest first
Date	Insider	Role	Shares	Price	Value	Filing
2026-05-14	WILLIS J KEVIN 3 purchases with a 63-day result · median -1.2%	CFO	10,000	$31.80	$318.0K	SEC filing for WILLIS J KEVIN (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-14	Freeland Richard Joseph history of Freeland Richard Joseph's purchases	Director	3,100	$32.37	$100.3K	SEC filing for Freeland Richard Joseph (opens in a new tab)
2026-05-15	Slater Jennifer Lynn history of Slater Jennifer Lynn's purchases	Director	1,000	$32.53	$32.5K	SEC filing for Slater Jennifer Lynn (opens in a new tab)
Total					$450.9K

Other buying runs at VVV

A run ends after a pause in the buying, so one company can have several. Returns are the stock's return minus its benchmark's (IWM for small companies, SPY otherwise), from the first open after the run became a cluster. Past results, not a forecast.

After this run became a cluster: 21 days +14.7%63 days -0.8%126 days –

Other insider buying runs at this company, newest first, with the return against the benchmark that followed
Window	Insiders	Total	Score	21 days	63 days	126 days	Status
2023-08-28 → 2023-08-30	3	$601.6K	48	-3.6%	-1.1%	+13.2%	closed