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President and CEO
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John W Kemper is President and CEO at CBSH. John W Kemper'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 $11.7M at current prices.
Historically, John W Kemper's trades have earned a middling insider score of 69/100 across 11 rated trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 66.7% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of +7.8%.
The CBSH filings lean toward selling, a net 166,561 shares.
John W Kemper has 40 Form 4 filings on record from October 2019 to July 2026, all as President and CEO at Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), 2019–2026.
The 83 reported transactions were 23 gifts, 20 tax withholdings, 15 open-market sales and 8 option exercises, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to no purchases and 15 sales worth about $10.7M.
The largest open-market sale was 26,042 shares of CBSH at an average $67.28 on February 4, 2025, about $1.8M. Twelve months later CBSH was down 14%.
None of the 6 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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| Jul 29, 2026 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares, Inc. | President and CEO | Sale+OE | 5,830 | $60.58 | $353,190.15 | -2.7% | -8.3% | - | |
| Feb 5, 2026 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares, Inc. | President and CEO | Sell | 23,397 | $53.99 | $1,263,299.96 | -10.2% | -3.4% | - | |
| Feb 4, 2025 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sell | 26,042 | $67.28 | $1,752,173.47 | -10.9% | -6.7% | -13.9% | |
| Nov 12, 2024 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sale+OE | 2,502 | $71.79 | $179,618.58 | -1.2% | -2.7% | -19.8% | |
| Jul 25, 2024 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sale+OE | 5,156 | $65.22 | $336,281.02 | -2.5% | -3.2% | +3.1% | |
| May 10, 2024 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sell | 26,581 | $56.77 | $1,509,069.82 | -11.8% | +7.3% | +19.5% | |
| Feb 3, 2023 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sell | 4,400 | $67.65 | $297,648.12 | -2.3% | -25.0% | -18.6% | |
| Feb 1, 2023 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sell | 18,107 | $66.33 | $1,200,970.31 | -10.1% | -18.4% | -15.9% | |
| Aug 10, 2022 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sale+OE | 4,285 | $72.41 | $310,289.70 | -2.3% | -0.9% | -22.3% | |
| Feb 2, 2022 | CBSH Commerce Bancshares Inc /mo/ | President and CEO | Sell | 12,829 | $69.45 | $890,931.71 | -6.5% | +0.8% | +3.0% |