Calavo Growers, Inc. (CVGW)
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About Calavo Growers, Inc.
Calavo Growers, Inc. markets and distributes avocados, prepared avocados, and other perishable foods to retail grocery and foodservice customers, club stores, mass merchandisers, food distributors, and wholesale customers worldwide. It operates in three segments: Fresh Products, Calavo Foods, and Renaissance Food Group (RFG). The Fresh products segment distributes avocados and other fresh produce products comprising tomatoes and papayas; and procures avocados grown in California, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. The Calavo Foods segment is involved in purchasing, processing, packaging, and distributing prepared avocado products, including guacamole and salsa. The RFG segment manufactures, markets, and distributes fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, fresh prepared entrée salads, wraps, sandwiches, and fresh snacking products, as well as ready-to-heat entrees, other hot bar and various deli items, meals kits and related components, and salad kits. The company offers its products under the Calavo and RFG brands, and related logos; and Avo Fresco, Bueno, Calavo Gold, Calavo Salsa Lisa, Salsa Lisa, Celebrate the Taste, El Dorado, Fresh Ripe, Select, Taste of Paradise, The First Name in Avocados, Tico, Mfresh, Maui Fresh International, Triggered Avocados, ProRipeVIP, RIPE NOW!, Garden Highway Fresh Cut, Garden Highway, and Garden Highway Chef Essentials trademarks. Calavo Growers, Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Santa Paula, California.
Insider Activity of Calavo Growers, Inc.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Calavo Growers, Inc. have bought $2.37M and sold $0 worth of Calavo Growers, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Calavo Growers, Inc. have bought $1.72M and sold $4.12M worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: COLE LECIL E (Chief Executive Officer) — $4.55M. Browne Michael A (Executive Vice President) — $67,552. Hollister Steve (director) — $61,180.
The last purchase of 1,200 shares for transaction amount of $33,776 was made by Browne Michael A (Executive Vice President) on 2023‑09‑18.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Calavo Growers, Inc.
| 2023-09-18 | Browne Michael A | Executive Vice President | 1,200 0.0068% | $28.15 | $33,776 | -3.83% | ||
| 2023-07-14 | Hollister Steve | director | 2,000 0.0112% | $30.59 | $61,180 | -11.48% | ||
| 2023-07-13 | COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 37,500 0.2121% | $30.74 | $1.15M | -10.73% | ||
| 2023-07-12 | COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 37,500 0.2101% | $29.94 | $1.12M | -9.22% | ||
| 2023-03-28 | COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 50,000 0.2815% | $27.96 | $1.4M | +2.78% | ||
| 2023-03-22 | COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 16,747 0.0955% | $25.04 | $419,345 | +16.73% | ||
| 2023-03-21 | COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 33,253 0.186% | $23.91 | $795,079 | +19.87% | ||
| 2022-10-17 | Sale | HELIN JAMES D | director | 2,000 0.0112% | $32.00 | $64,000 | -0.39% | |
| 2021-09-14 | Hollister Steve | Interim CEO & Interim CFO | 5,000 0.0286% | $36.12 | $180,600 | +16.44% | ||
| 2021-04-16 | Sale | SANDERS DONALD M | director | 2,000 0.0113% | $80.00 | $160,000 | -45.10% | |
| 2021-04-07 | Sale | DiGregorio Michael Anthony | director | 1,000 0.0057% | $78.53 | $78,535 | -43.52% | |
| 2021-03-17 | Sale | WEDIN ROBERT J | Exec. VP of Fresh Sales | 2,335 0.0132% | $80.21 | $187,293 | -44.37% | |
| 2020-06-23 | Sale | Edwards Harold S | director | 1,600 0.009% | $61.42 | $98,271 | +16.84% | |
| 2020-04-15 | Sale | Brown Marc Laurence | director | 1,000 0.0057% | $63.59 | $63,590 | +8.23% | |
| 2020-01-10 | Sale | COLE LECIL E | Chairman, President and CEO | 2,100 0.012% | $83.01 | $174,321 | -22.65% | |
| 2020-01-09 | Sale | COLE LECIL E | Chairman, President & CEO | 700 0.004% | $83.00 | $58,100 | -22.18% | |
| 2020-01-08 | Sale | COLE LECIL E | Chairman, President & CEO | 41,052 0.2359% | $83.53 | $3.43M | -22.66% | |
| 2020-01-08 | Sale | Lindeman Bruce John | CFO & Corporate Secretary | 2,500 0.0147% | $85.25 | $213,125 | -22.66% | |
| 2020-01-06 | Sale | COLE LECIL E | Chairman, President and CEO | 17,181 0.0986% | $86.28 | $1.48M | -25.23% | |
| 2020-01-06 | Sale | Araiza Ronald Anthony | VP Food Division Sales and Ops | 3,000 0.0172% | $86.07 | $258,210 | -25.23% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| COLE LECIL E | Chief Executive Officer | 515000 2.8935% | $23.01 | 33 | 68 | +8.51% |
| Hollister Steve | director | 36702 0.2062% | $23.01 | 3 | 3 | +19.45% |
| Browne Michael A | Executive Vice President | 1500 0.0084% | $23.01 | 2 | 5 | +25.48% |
| KEENAN ROY V | director | 556883 3.1288% | $23.01 | 3 | 1 | +42.68% |
| Catchot Kenneth J | President and COO | 435825 2.4486% | $23.01 | 0 | 4 | |
| SNIDER ALVA V | director | 95000 0.5337% | $23.01 | 0 | 7 | |
| LEAVENS J LINK | director | 92528 0.5199% | $23.01 | 16 | 8 | +10.01% |
| Thille Dorcas H | director | 84853 0.4767% | $23.01 | 0 | 9 | |
| FERRAZZANO FRED J | director | 43374 0.2437% | $23.01 | 0 | 41 | |
| HUNT JOHN M | director | 29000 0.1629% | $23.01 | 0 | 25 | |
| HELIN JAMES D | director | 26314 0.1478% | $23.01 | 0 | 1 | |
| VAN DER KAR SCOTT | director | 23262 0.1307% | $23.01 | 4 | 5 | +12.6% |
| SANDERS DONALD M | director | 17887 0.1005% | $23.01 | 0 | 15 | |
| CRANE AVI | V.P. Calavo International | 17794 0.1% | $23.01 | 0 | 3 | |
| DiGregorio Michael Anthony | director | 17750 0.0997% | $23.01 | 0 | 2 | |
| Lindeman Bruce John | CFO & Corporate Secretary | 13800 0.0775% | $23.01 | 0 | 2 | |
| Brown Marc Laurence | director | 13500 0.0758% | $23.01 | 2 | 18 | +3.52% |
| Araiza Ronald Anthony | VP Food Division Sales and Ops | 9941 0.0559% | $23.01 | 0 | 1 | |
| WEDIN ROBERT J | Exec. VP of Fresh Sales | 9035 0.0508% | $23.01 | 0 | 13 | |
| Snyder James E | Controller | 8019 0.0451% | $23.01 | 0 | 4 | |
| BRUNO ARTHUR J | Chief Financial Officer | 7537 0.0423% | $23.01 | 0 | 18 | |
| Edwards Harold S | director | 6638 0.0373% | $23.01 | 1 | 6 | +61.69% |
| Gibson James E | President of Subsidiary Corp. | 5996 0.0337% | $23.01 | 0 | 7 | |
| AHMER ALAN C | VP - Proc. Sales & Operations | 5422 0.0305% | $23.01 | 0 | 2 | |
| Carbone Egidio | director | 5300 0.0298% | $23.01 | 8 | 0 | +6.76% |
| HAUSE MICHAEL D | director | 5200 0.0292% | $23.01 | 1 | 3 | +29.48% |
| HOLMGREN KATHLEEN M | director | 2750 0.0155% | $23.01 | 1 | 0 | +26.35% |
| HOMBRECHER WOLFGANG P | V.P. Finance & Corp. Secretary | 1871 0.0105% | $23.01 | 0 | 2 | |
| BARNES GEORGE H | director | 1400 0.0079% | $23.01 | 1 | 17 | <0.0001% |
| WATTS GERALD J | VP,GM,Calavo de Mexico | 200 0.0011% | $23.01 | 0 | 4 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| BlackRock | $78.76M | 15.91 | 2.83M | -1.87% | -$1.5M | <0.01 | |
| Nuance Investments | $38.68M | 7.81 | 1.39M | -8.03% | -$3.38M | 1.02 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $38.51M | 7.78 | 1.38M | +0.3% | +$114,215.67 | <0.01 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $19.74M | 3.99 | 709,880 | +3.05% | +$584,983.33 | 0.01 | |
| State Street | $18.82M | 3.79 | 674,440 | +1.31% | +$243,398.62 | <0.01 | |
| ClearBridge Investments | $17.69M | 3.57 | 636,033 | -0.04% | -$7,508.70 | 0.01 | |
| GOLDEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | $11.24M | 2.27 | 404,278 | +51.44% | +$3.82M | 3.69 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $10.91M | 2.2 | 392,270 | +3.07% | +$325,341.20 | <0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $10.67M | 2.16 | 383,618 | +196.34% | +$7.07M | <0.01 | |
| Charles Schwab | $10.09M | 2.04 | 362,882 | +4.25% | +$411,143.06 | <0.01 | |
| Kennedy Capital Management Inc | $7.9M | 1.6 | 283,968 | -41.25% | -$5.54M | 0.17 | |
| Russell Investments Group Ltd | $7.39M | 1.49 | 265,591 | -5.34% | -$416,955.91 | 0.01 | |
| DePrince, Race & Zollo, Inc. | $7.04M | 1.42 | 253,295 | -2.66% | -$192,751.11 | 0.15 | |
| Kent Lake Capital LLC | $6.95M | 1.4 | 250,000 | -16.67% | -$1.39M | 3.05 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $6.9M | 1.39 | 248,200 | -28.64% | -$2.77M | 0.01 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $6.02M | 1.22 | 216,437 | +0.8% | +$47,583.30 | <0.0001 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $5.71M | 1.15 | 205,347 | -3.67% | -$217,780.11 | <0.01 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $5.26M | 1.06 | 189,270 | +9.63% | +$462,257.85 | <0.01 | |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management | $5.18M | 1.05 | 186,124 | -0.59% | -$30,730.05 | 0.02 | |
| Northern Trust | $5.12M | 1.03 | 184,026 | -2.23% | -$116,607.33 | <0.01 | |
| BNY Mellon | $5.1M | 1.03 | 183,377 | -0.24% | -$12,069.52 | <0.01 | |
| Invesco | $4.22M | 0.85 | 151,769 | +2.03% | +$83,958.39 | <0.01 | |
| Crown Advisors Management Inc | $3.89M | 0.79 | 140,000 | -3.45% | -$139,035.71 | 2.42 | |
| Raymond James Associates | $3.46M | 0.7 | 124,479 | +4.21% | +$139,828.44 | <0.01 | |
| GAMCO Investors | $3.43M | 0.69 | 123,250 | +4.41% | +$144,612.02 | 0.04 | |
| Nuveen | $3.42M | 0.69 | 123,055 | -24.75% | -$1.13M | <0.01 | |
| Connors Investor Services Inc | $2.97M | 0.6 | 106,890 | -30.72% | -$1.32M | 0.31 | |
| Intrinsic Edge Capital Management Llc | $2.56M | 0.52 | 92,115 | New | +$2.56M | 0.22 | |
| Hodges Capital | $2.52M | 0.51 | 90,740 | -33.98% | -$1.3M | 0.16 | |
| Gsa Capital Partners Llp | $2.21M | 0.45 | 79,498 | -37.92% | -$1.35M | 0.18 | |
| American Century Investments | $2.1M | 0.42 | 75,370 | +405.26% | +$1.68M | <0.01 | |
| Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc. | $2.06M | 0.42 | 74,130 | -2.82% | -$59,791.49 | 0.01 | |
| Iq Eq Fund Management Ireland Ltd | $1.68M | 0.34 | 60,562 | +2.48% | +$40,825.07 | 0.19 | |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | $1.67M | 0.34 | 59,874 | +46.42% | +$527,917.25 | <0.01 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $1.53M | 0.31 | 54,872 | +0.63% | +$9,538.70 | <0.01 | |
| Ameriprise Financial | $1.42M | 0.29 | 51,031 | -2.96% | -$43,300.35 | <0.0001 | |
| Legal & General | $1.35M | 0.27 | 48,626 | -3.15% | -$44,051.04 | <0.0001 | |
| Dean Investment Associates Llc | $1.14M | 0.23 | 41,048 | +12.53% | +$127,119.52 | 0.16 | |
| Teton Advisors Inc | $1.07M | 0.22 | 38,500 | -1.79% | -$19,467.00 | 0.39 | |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | $1.03M | 0.21 | 36,861 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| Allspring Global Investments | $955,162.00 | 0.19 | 34,346 | -25.28% | -$323,235.54 | <0.01 | |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | $938,000.00 | 0.19 | 33,732 | -2.32% | -$22,245.94 | <0.01 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $926,073.00 | 0.19 | 33,300 | 0% | +$0 | <0.01 | |
| Point72 Asset Management | $887,139.00 | 0.18 | 31,900 | New | +$887,139.00 | <0.01 | |
| TSW (Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC) | $845,000.00 | 0.17 | 30,400 | -47.47% | -$763,613.16 | 0.01 | |
| Cubist Systematic Strategies | $800,483.00 | 0.16 | 28,784 | New | +$800,483.00 | 0.01 | |
| Jane Street Capital | $741,192.00 | 0.15 | 26,652 | +9.28% | +$62,934.02 | <0.01 | |
| Jackson Square Capital Llc | $731,792.00 | 0.15 | 26,314 | New | +$731,792.00 | 0.19 | |
| The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company | $686,462.00 | 0.14 | 24,684 | -20.25% | -$174,340.88 | <0.01 | |
| Tectonic Advisors | $621,423.00 | 0.13 | 22,345 | +0.13% | +$834.31 | 0.05 |