What the executives and directors of Hormel Foods actually did with their own shares, decoded from three years of SEC Form 4 filings.
The tape: three years of insider trades
Every marker sits at the exact price reported on the Form 4. The line is the monthly median of all prices insiders reported, so the chart needs no market feed; the gray strip is routine flow (vestings, tax withholding, gifts) that headlines love to miscount as selling.
Where the shares went, last 12 months
Every Form 4 movement decomposed: what flowed in (grants, vested equity, purchases) and what flowed out (tax withholding, plan sales, discretionary sales, gifts). Counted in shares, because grants carry no price.
Skin in the game
Directly held shares as reported after each trade, indexed to 100 five years back. Direct holdings only: trust and family-entity positions are per-entity in the filings and do not sum honestly, so this chart refuses to guess. The steps are the trades.
Who holds what
| Insider | Role | Shares held | Buys 12 m | Sales 12 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snee James P PRESIDENT AND CEO | CEO | 377.9K | — | — |
| Policinski Christopher J. | Director | 124.9K | — | — |
| Brady Deanna T EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT | Officer | 124K | — | — |
| Bhojwani Gary C. | Director | 109.4K | — | $495K |
| White Steven Andrew | Director | 95.1K | — | — |
| LACY STEPHEN M | Director | 94K | — | — |
| NESTEGARD SUSAN K | Director | 92.6K | — | — |
| Murano Elsa A | Director | 88.6K | — | $322K |
| SMITH SALLY J | Director | 86.6K | — | — |
| Coffey Mark A GROUP VICE PRESIDENT | Officer | 83.4K | — | — |
| ETTINGER JEFFREY M Interim CEO | CEO | 68.9K | — | — |
| Smiley Jacinth C EXECUTIVE VP & CFO | CFO | 64.2K | — | — |
| Ghingo John F President | Officer | 64K | — | — |
| Newlands William A | Director | 58.1K | — | — |
Open-market trade log
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-08 | Bhojwani Gary C. (Director) | Discretionary sale | 20.2K | $24.51 | $495K |
| 2025-12-11 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 13.4K | $24.00 | $322K |
| 2025-03-27 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 4,500 | $30.40 | $137K |
| 2024-12-06 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Open-market buy | 4,904 | $32.47 | $159K |
| 2024-09-27 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 9,800 | $31.91 | $313K |
| 2024-09-18 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 10K | $32.70 | $327K |
| 2024-09-13 | Brady Deanna T (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 51.6K | $31.96 | $1.6M |
| 2024-06-27 | Losness-Larson Katherine M (Officer) | Open-market buy | 830 | $30.12 | $25K |
| 2024-04-02 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 4,300 | $35.13 | $151K |
| 2024-04-02 | Ourada Mark J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 13.8K | $35.50 | $490K |
| 2024-03-28 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 15.4K | $35.00 | $539K |
| 2024-03-28 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 10K | $34.95 | $350K |
| 2024-03-08 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 15.4K | $34.18 | $526K |
| 2023-12-27 | NESTEGARD SUSAN K (Director) | Discretionary sale | 8,105 | $31.78 | $258K |
| 2023-12-21 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,892 | $31.47 | $185K |
| 2023-12-19 | Brady Deanna T (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,024 | $31.48 | $158K |
| 2023-12-13 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 9,000 | $31.70 | $285K |
| 2023-10-13 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,200 | $30.93 | $161K |
| 2023-09-06 | Lilly Pierre M (Officer) | Open-market buy | 1,454 | $37.25 | $54K |
| 2023-08-15 | Kuehneman Paul R (Officer) | Open-market buy | 108 | $40.66 | $4K |
| 2023-06-13 | Ourada Mark J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 9,200 | $41.00 | $377K |
| 2023-06-08 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 31.4K | $40.50 | $1.3M |
| 2023-06-08 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,200 | $40.51 | $211K |
| 2023-04-03 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 6,000 | $40.50 | $243K |
| 2023-03-27 | Prado Becerra Jose Luis (Director) | Discretionary sale | 5,200 | $39.01 | $203K |
| 2022-12-14 | Connor Patrick J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 1,577 | $46.88 | $74K |
| 2022-12-08 | Snee James P (CEO) | Discretionary sale | 31.3K | $47.66 | $1.5M |
| 2022-09-09 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $47.20 | $236K |
| 2022-06-23 | Policinski Christopher J. (Director) | Discretionary sale | 2,110 | $46.27 | $98K |
| 2022-06-07 | Myers Kevin L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $45.07 | $225K |
| 2022-05-02 | Neufeldt Swen (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 960 | $51.82 | $50K |
| 2022-03-31 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 5,000 | $51.57 | $258K |
| 2022-03-23 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 16K | $50.18 | $803K |
| 2022-03-07 | Marconi Luis G (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 15K | $52.02 | $780K |
| 2022-03-04 | NESTEGARD SUSAN K (Director) | Discretionary sale | 7,183 | $51.43 | $369K |
| 2022-03-04 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 12.5K | $50.07 | $626K |
| 2022-03-04 | Connor Patrick J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 22.8K | $51.63 | $1.2M |
| 2022-03-04 | Marconi Luis G (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 3,493 | $51.73 | $181K |
| 2022-03-04 | Neufeldt Swen (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 14.7K | $51.44 | $755K |
| 2022-01-10 | Jamison Gary (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 8,000 | $50.30 | $402K |
| 2021-12-17 | HAYNES JANA L (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 14.1K | $49.14 | $693K |
| 2021-07-01 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 1,220 | $47.61 | $58K |
| 2021-07-01 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 21.4K | $47.61 | $1M |
| 2021-06-11 | NESTEGARD SUSAN K (Director) | Discretionary sale | 16.5K | $48.51 | $799K |
| 2021-06-03 | Neufeldt Swen (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 6,200 | $49.50 | $307K |
| 2021-06-02 | Jamison Gary (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 8,000 | $49.00 | $392K |
| 2021-05-28 | SHEEHAN JAMES N (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 39.6K | $48.80 | $1.9M |
| 2021-05-28 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 12.5K | $49.01 | $613K |
| 2021-05-28 | Marconi Luis G (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 6,725 | $48.74 | $328K |
| 2021-05-27 | Coffey Mark A (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 25K | $48.49 | $1.2M |
| 2021-04-06 | Murano Elsa A (Director) | Discretionary sale | 6,000 | $48.06 | $288K |
| 2021-03-16 | Jamison Gary (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 3,083 | $48.23 | $149K |
| 2021-03-16 | Jamison Gary (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 3,195 | $48.23 | $154K |
| 2021-03-05 | Leitch Glenn R (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 87K | $47.63 | $4.1M |
| 2021-03-02 | Marco Lori J (Officer) | Open-market buy | 239 | $46.84 | $11K |
| 2021-02-26 | SHEEHAN JAMES N (CFO) | Discretionary sale | 32.4K | $46.94 | $1.5M |
| 2021-02-25 | Leitch Glenn R (Officer) | Discretionary sale | 140K | $47.22 | $6.6M |
| 2020-12-02 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Open-market buy | 1,964 | $46.97 | $92K |
| 2020-12-02 | LYKKEN STEVEN J (Officer) | Open-market buy | 4,909 | $46.97 | $231K |
| 2020-11-09 | Neufeldt Swen (Officer) | Open-market buy | 193 | $49.49 | $10K |
“Since trade” compares with the latest insider-implied price, not a market quote; this site carries no market data by design.
Filing hygiene
How to read this
A Form 4 transaction code decides everything. P is an open-market purchase and S an open-market sale; those two are the only codes where an insider chose to trade. A is a grant, M an option exercise or vesting, F shares withheld to cover tax, G a gift. Most “insiders dumped billions” headlines are code F and M mechanics.
Sales flagged 10b5-1 run on a plan the insider adopted in advance; since 2023 every Form 4 carries that flag. Buys have historically predicted returns, sales mostly have not, and this page states filings, not advice.