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ELAN

Elanco Animal Health Inc

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Insider Score Band 60–79

Research score, not a recommendation.

Total bought$3.0M5 Form 4 purchases
Distinct insiders5open-market buyers
Lead insiderSimmons Jeffrey NCEO
Cluster window2019-08-22 → 2019-09-11closed

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
83%
Seniority executive rank of buyers (CEO/CFO/Director)
94%
Commitment purchase size relative to company & holdings
63%
Context buying into stock weakness signals conviction
54%
Timing coordinated purchases within a tight window
97%
Routine-purchase discount × 1.00
Company-type / offering discount × 1.00
Net insider selling penalty − 0

Why are they buying?

No explanation has been generated for this cluster. The filings in the table below are the primary evidence.

Stock Price & Insider Purchase History

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

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Transactions

5 Form 4 trades · 5 insiders Sign in to download CSV
Purchases in this cluster, grouped by insider, largest first
Date Insider Role Shares Price Value Filing
2019-09-04 Simmons Jeffrey N 7 purchases with a 63-day result · median -6.1% CEO 75,750 $26.55 $2.0M SEC filing for Simmons Jeffrey N (opens in a new tab)
2019-08-22 HOOVER R DAVID 17 purchases with a 63-day result · median -6.3% Director 15,000 $26.96 $404.4K SEC filing for HOOVER R DAVID (opens in a new tab)
2019-08-22 Hicks Michael-Bryant history of Hicks Michael-Bryant's purchases Other officer 11,030 $26.65 $293.9K SEC filing for Hicks Michael-Bryant (opens in a new tab)
2019-09-04 YOUNG TODD S. history of YOUNG TODD S.'s purchases Other officer 10,000 $26.57 $265.7K SEC filing for YOUNG TODD S. (opens in a new tab)
2019-09-11 Kochevar Deborah Turner history of Kochevar Deborah Turner's purchases Director 1,000 $27.95 $27.9K SEC filing for Kochevar Deborah Turner (opens in a new tab)
Total $3.0M

Other buying runs at ELAN

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 -0.4%63 days -6.1%126 days -6.8%

Other insider buying runs at this company, newest first, with the return against the benchmark that followed
Window Insiders Total Score 21 days63 days126 days Status
2026-08-07 → 2026-08-20 5 $1.5M 62 +3.8%–– active
2025-12-11 → 2025-12-12 4 $937.9K 62 +6.9%+14.2%-3.2% closed
2024-03-06 → 2024-03-08 3 $617.8K 46 -8.6%+7.8%-18.0% closed
2022-09-09 4 $989.9K 73 -11.6%-15.1%-36.2% closed
2021-08-11 → 2021-08-16 3 $900.5K 61 +1.4%-5.3%-20.5% closed
2020-08-03 → 2020-08-28 4 $1.0M 53 +1.9%+3.8%-1.4% closed
2020-02-28 → 2020-03-13 4 $678.8K 48 -1.7%-16.4%-4.7% closed
2018-09-24 11 $1.7M 72 -3.9%+4.3%-5.7% closed