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Chairman & CEO | CEO and Chairman | CEO, President and Chairman +2 more
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James Hagedorn is Chairman & CEO at SMG. James Hagedorn's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $5.5M at current prices.
Historically, James Hagedorn's trades have earned a middling insider score of 67/100 across 13 rated trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 61.5% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of +8.4%.
The SMG filings lean toward selling, a net 559,787 shares.
James Hagedorn has 141 Form 4 filings on record from February 2021 to June 2026, all as CEO at The Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), 2021–2026.
The 243 reported transactions were 89 option or other derivative awards, 83 other transactions, 41 open-market sales and 13 tax withholdings, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to no purchases and 9 sales worth about $58.5M.
The largest open-market sale was 77,770 shares of SMG at an average $223.64 on May 19, 2021, about $17.4M. Twelve months later SMG was down 58%.
None of the 5 sales since April 2023 was marked as made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Jan 30, 2025 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman & CEO | Sale+OE | 142,733 | $71.56 | $10,213,388.36 | -61.8% | -29.9% | -10.7% | |
| Dec 4, 2024 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | CEO and Chairman | Sell | 18,368 | $75.68 | $1,390,033.30 | -17.4% | -21.0% | -28.0% | |
| Nov 3, 2023 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman, CEO and President | Sell | 80,692 | $53.02 | $4,278,359.44 | -64.4% | +6.7% | +65.2% | |
| Aug 7, 2023 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sell | 55,000 | $56.32 | $3,097,341.19 | -30.5% | -3.4% | +28.6% | |
| May 12, 2023 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sell | 25,000 | $67.00 | $1,674,908.98 | -12.2% | -20.0% | +4.1% | |
| Jan 17, 2023 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sell | 50,000 | $60.77 | $3,038,563.46 | -19.1% | +20.6% | -7.6% | |
| May 13, 2022 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sell | 60,000 | $97.74 | $5,864,219.92 | -18.6% | -15.4% | -30.5% | |
| May 19, 2021 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sale+OE | 77,770 | $223.64 | $17,392,668.48 | -51.3% | -30.8% | -57.8% | |
| May 17, 2021 | SMG Scotts Miracle-Gro Co | Chairman and CEO | Sale+OE | 50,224 | $229.02 | $11,502,151.23 | -40.5% | -32.9% | -56.2% |