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EML

EASTERN CO

Industrials Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware Market cap: $142.3M All insider activity → Quote and statistics → Sign in to watch EML Sign in to set a price alert
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Insider Score Band below 60

Research score, not a recommendation.

Total bought$161.6K5 Form 4 purchases
Distinct insiders4open-market buyers
Lead insiderVlak August M.CEO
Cluster window2017-11-09 → 2017-11-15closed

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
63%
Seniority executive rank of buyers (CEO/CFO/Director)
94%
Commitment purchase size relative to company & holdings
69%
Context buying into stock weakness signals conviction
46%
Timing coordinated purchases within a tight window
99%
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 · 4 insiders Sign in to download CSV
Purchases in this cluster, grouped by insider, largest first
Date Insider Role Shares Price Value Filing
2017-11-09 Vlak August M. 4 purchases with a 63-day result · median +1.1% CEO 1,800 $25.75 $46.4K SEC filing for Vlak August M. (opens in a new tab)
2017-11-15 DiSanto Frederick D. 35 purchases with a 63-day result · median -4.3% Director 1,500 $26.41 $39.6K SEC filing for DiSanto Frederick D. (opens in a new tab)
2017-11-09 Labbadia Angelo history of Labbadia Angelo's purchases COO 1,398 $28.30 $39.6K SEC filing for Labbadia Angelo (opens in a new tab)
2017-11-09 SULLIVAN JOHN L III 4 purchases with a 63-day result · median -22.3% CFO 1,400 $25.77 avg $36.1K
2017-11-09 SULLIVAN JOHN L III 100 $26.00 $2.6K SEC filing for SULLIVAN JOHN L III (opens in a new tab)
2017-11-09 SULLIVAN JOHN L III 1,300 $25.75 $33.5K SEC filing for SULLIVAN JOHN L III (opens in a new tab)
Total $161.6K

Other buying runs at EML

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 -0.2%63 days -7.9%126 days +4.9%

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
2026-09-16 4 $118.0K 32 +0.7%–– active
2026-06-04 → 2026-06-16 5 $306.1K 43 +9.4%+17.7%– active
2026-03-06 → 2026-03-18 7 $347.2K 52 +1.0%-6.9%+8.9% closed
2025-11-12 → 2025-12-16 7 $403.2K 53 -15.7%+7.9%-1.2% closed
2023-03-15 → 2023-03-17 4 $177.7K 41 -1.4%+0.6%+4.3% closed
2020-03-03 → 2020-03-23 3 $100.7K 47 -12.4%-33.5%-26.5% closed
2017-05-19 5 $3.0M 69 -0.3%-13.2%-14.4% closed