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VP, CFO and Treasurer | Controller & Pao
2 companies
James M Kempton last filed a Form 4 in May 2025, as VP, CFO and Treasurer at SMSI. The filings on record cover 2 companies. James M Kempton's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person was an insider, as of the last filing.
Our model assigns James M Kempton a middling insider score of 67/100, based on 6 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 66.7% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of +24.5%.
At the last filing, the largest reported position was 210,296 shares of SMSI. The SMSI filings lean toward selling, a net 10,814 shares.
James M Kempton has 47 Form 4 filings on record from February 2020 to May 2025, across 2 companies: VP, CFO and Treasurer at Smith Micro Software (SMSI), 2021–2025; Controller & Pao at Foster L B (FSTR), 2020–2021.
The 61 reported transactions were 31 tax withholdings, 16 stock awards, 7 dispositions back to the company and 4 open-market sales, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 2 purchases worth about $8K and 4 sales worth about $8K.
The largest open-market purchase was 2,500 shares of SMSI at an average $2.60 on September 13, 2022, about $7K. Twelve months later SMSI was down 48%.
The largest open-market sale was 6,780 shares of SMSI at an average $0.67 on December 1, 2023, about $5K. Twelve months later SMSI was down 86%.
3 of the 4 sales since April 2023 were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan; the other was not.
Shares as reported in the last Form 4 for each company; the most recent is from May 2025. Values use today's prices. Any trades after the last filing were not reported, so current holdings may differ.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Dec 16, 2024 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Sell | 437 | $0.79 | $344.62 | -0.6% | -6.3% | -32.6% | |
| Mar 13, 2024 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Sell10b5-1 | 4,804 | $0.35 | $1,681.40 | -1.2% | -19.6% | -73.0% | |
| Jan 23, 2024 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Sell10b5-1 | 2,293 | $0.77 | $1,754.37 | -1.0% | -64.1% | -78.9% | |
| Dec 1, 2023 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Sell10b5-1 | 6,780 | $0.67 | $4,542.60 | -2.8% | -48.9% | -85.6% | |
| Jun 14, 2023 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Buy | 1,000 | $1.19 | $1,190.00 | +0.5% | +20.7% | -75.1% | |
| Sep 13, 2022 | SMSI Smith Micro Software, Inc. | VP, CFO and Treasurer | Buy | 2,500 | $2.60 | $6,500.00 | +2.2% | -16.9% | -48.2% |