ESCA — ESCALADE INC
Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21
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Performance
Technicals
Dividends
Measured signals that fired on ESCA
| date | signal | measured base rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-07 | Cluster sale: three or more insiders insider | -0.37% over 21 days · t = -3.38 · n = 21,542 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
Excess return against a matched control group, on a point-in-time universe that includes delisted companies. Most families do not survive that. How the measurement works →
Insider transactions (Form 4)
| date | insider | what | shares | price | value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-13 | Williams Edward E Director | Open-market sale | 2.4K | 20.99 | 49.8K |
| 2026-08-12 | Williams Edward E Director | Open-market sale | 362 | 20.96 | 7.6K |
| 2026-08-11 | Williams Edward E Director | Open-market sale | 30.3K | 20.98 | 635.9K |
| 2026-08-06 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Open-market sale | 5.0K | 22.27 | 111.4K |
| 2026-08-04 | Glazer Walter P. Jr. Director | Open-market sale | 16.4K | 21.08 | 345.1K |
| 2026-08-04 | Wawrin Stephen CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | Open-market sale | 3.2K | 21.40 | 68.0K |
| 2026-06-11 | Griffin Patrick J PRESIDENT & CEO | Gift | 1.0K | 0.00 | 0 |
| 2026-06-11 | Griffin Patrick J PRESIDENT & CEO | Gift | 1.0K | 0.00 | 0 |
| 2026-06-01 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Gift | 1.0K | 0.00 | 0 |
| 2026-05-28 | Baalmann Richard Fenton JR Director | Gift | 1.0K | 0.00 | 0 |
Open-market purchases (code P) are the informative ones. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions. How to read a Form 4 →
Largest institutional holders
| manager | value | shares |
|---|---|---|
| Minerva Advisors LLC | 9.7M | 567.6K |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 9.3M | 539.8K |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP | 7.8M | 455.8K |
| North Star Investment Management Corp. | 7.3M | 422.3K |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | 6.8M | 397.9K |
| Rehmann Capital Advisory Group | 5.3M | 309.2K |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 3.8M | 223.7K |
| STATE STREET CORP | 2.3M | 135.8K |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 1.6M | 92.2K |
| MORGAN STANLEY | 1.6M | 90.5K |
13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →
Short selling
This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →
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