John Michel is CFO at First Foundation Inc. (FFWM). They have made 16 open-market trades across 2 companies since 2016, most recently 2025-09-02.
CIK 0001594287
Unrated. We grade insiders only on stock they chose to buy on the open market. Grants, option exercises and vesting say nothing about timing, so they don't count — which is why someone can file often and still have no grade. It isn't a bad sign: unrated buys beat every graded tier below A.
7 open-market purchases totalling $1.2M since 2016, against 9 sales. Across 7 scored buys the stock is up 16.8% at ninety days, and 10.5 points ahead of the S&P over the same stretch.
7 scored purchases · one row per filing · discretionary only
| 7d | 30d | 90d | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | 43% | 71% | 71% |
| Avg Move | +1.3% | +0.7% | +16.8% |
| Alpha | +0.7% | -1.6% | +10.5% |
| Scored | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Ticker | Type | Traded | Filed | Price | Value | 7d Stock | 30d Stock | 90d Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMST | SELL | 2024-11-21 | 2024-11-25 | $11.26 | $90K | -1.8% | -7.2% | -17.7% |
| HMST | BUY | 2023-05-12 | 2023-05-15 | $5.99 | $60K | -2.2% | +4.1% | +57.1% |
| HMST | BUY | 2022-05-24 | 2022-05-24 | $39.80 | $239K | -1.2% | -15.1% | -10.5% |
| HMST | BUY | 2021-08-03 | 2021-08-05 | $37.75 | $302K | +3.3% | -0.8% | +23.4% |
| HMST | BUY | 2021-05-05 | 2021-05-07 | $42.60 | $358K | +0.7% | +0.9% | -13.4% |
| HMST | BUY | 2020-11-04 | 2020-11-04 | $31.04 | $31K | +13.9% | +9.0% | +24.4% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2020-03-10 | 2020-03-11 | $12.46 | $770K | -27.1% | -2.4% | +48.8% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2019-10-29 | 2019-10-31 | $15.74 | $79K | +1.9% | +1.4% | +4.4% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2018-11-02 | 2018-11-06 | $16.33 | $457K | -0.8% | -11.8% | -10.6% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2017-09-11 | 2017-09-13 | $16.62 | $665K | +1.1% | +7.1% | +8.0% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2017-09-06 | 2017-09-07 | $16.80 | $175K | +5.5% | +12.0% | +15.9% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2017-05-10 | 2017-05-12 | $16.47 | $988K | +1.2% | +3.0% | +9.1% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2017-04-26 | 2017-04-28 | $15.86 | $634K | +4.1% | -1.3% | +11.3% |
| FFWM | BUY | 2016-11-17 | 2016-11-21 | $10.00 | $140K | -0.7% | +2.2% | +21.3% |
| FFWM | SELL | 2016-11-17 | 2016-11-21 | $27.00 | $378K | -0.7% | +2.2% | +21.3% |
| FFWM | BUY | 2016-06-14 | 2016-06-14 | $21.41 | $32K | -4.5% | +4.6% | +14.9% |
Grouped by shared companies and similar filing behaviour. This is a similarity measure, not a ranking or a performance signal.