GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC.
AI summary Directors acquire shares routinely using director compensation via the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan.
- Research score
- 0
- AI adjustment
- -12
Research score, not a recommendation.
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.
Why are they buying?
AI · plan · catalyst none · documentedThe directors made regular, recurring share purchases pursuant to prior elections to allocate a portion of their director compensation toward the company's Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan.
Form 4 footnotes confirm that all reported transactions during the window were executed under prior elections to use director compensation for participation in the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan.
Filing references and sources
Stock Price & Insider Purchase History
Daily close price with open-market insider purchases plotted over time
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| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Price | Value | Flags | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-15 → 2026-05-15 | Seger Andrew M 7 purchases with a 63-day result · median -1.1% | Director | 99 | $41.54 avg | $4.1K | ||
| 2026-02-15 | Seger Andrew M | 23 | $43.64 | $1.0K | SEC filing for Seger Andrew M (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-03-17 | Seger Andrew M | 52 | $40.48 | $2.1K | SEC filing for Seger Andrew M (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-05-15 | Seger Andrew M | 24 | $41.84 | $1,000 | SEC filing for Seger Andrew M (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-03-17 → 2026-04-15 | SHEIDLER JACK 57 purchases with a 63-day result · median -1.3% | Director | 50 | $42.22 avg | $2.1K | ||
| 2026-03-17 | SHEIDLER JACK | 25 | $40.84 | $1.0K | SEC filing for SHEIDLER JACK (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-04-15 | SHEIDLER JACK | 25 | $43.58 | $1.1K | SEC filing for SHEIDLER JACK (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-03-17 | Ryan Christina M 46 purchases with a 63-day result · median +1.1% | Director | 49 | $40.84 | $2.0K | SEC filing for Ryan Christina M (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2026-03-17 | Ellspermann Susan J 35 purchases with a 63-day result · median -0.4% | Director | 49 | $40.48 | $2.0K | SEC filing for Ellspermann Susan J (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2026-03-17 → 2026-04-15 | Bawel Zachary W 61 purchases with a 63-day result · median +0.4% | Director | 48 | $41.97 avg | $2.0K | ||
| 2026-03-17 | Bawel Zachary W | 25 | $40.48 | $1,000 | SEC filing for Bawel Zachary W (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2026-04-15 | Bawel Zachary W | 23 | $43.58 | $1.0K | SEC filing for Bawel Zachary W (opens in a new tab) | ||
| Total | $12.2K | ||||||
Other buying runs at GABC
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 +1.1%63 days -2.7%126 days +11.1%
| Window | Insiders | Total | Score | 21 days | 63 days | 126 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 → 2026-10-15 | 4 | $113.5K | 12 | +2.1% | – | – | active |
| 2026-07-16 | 5 | $95.0K | 20 | +4.2% | +12.0% | – | active |
| 2026-06-15 | 4 | $4.0K | 4 | +7.1% | +11.5% | – | active |
| 2026-01-15 | 3 | $4.0K | 15 | +7.9% | +4.3% | +8.2% | closed |
| 2025-11-15 → 2025-12-15 | 3 | $5.1K | 16 | -8.2% | +2.3% | -7.9% | closed |
| 2025-09-15 → 2025-10-15 | 5 | $42.8K | 26 | -7.1% | -0.4% | +0.2% | closed |
| 2025-06-15 → 2025-08-15 | 8 | $242.1K | 37 | +5.0% | -4.0% | -5.0% | closed |
| 2025-04-15 → 2025-05-15 | 3 | $4.4K | 16 | -8.1% | -7.1% | -14.8% | closed |
| 2025-01-22 → 2025-03-15 | 6 | $59.3K | 30 | +5.7% | +7.2% | +1.4% | closed |
| 2024-11-15 → 2024-12-15 | 5 | $11.1K | 19 | -6.7% | -7.8% | -4.9% | closed |
| 2024-09-15 → 2024-10-15 | 5 | $16.2K | 22 | +0.2% | +5.1% | +3.8% | closed |
| 2024-06-15 → 2024-08-15 | 8 | $420.4K | 37 | +12.2% | +13.6% | +17.3% | closed |