Director James S. Metcalf buys $502,165 of Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (ROCK)

James S. Metcalf, director of Gibraltar Industries, Inc., bought 12,444 shares on the open market on March 10, 2026 at an average of $40.35 a share, for a total of $502,165. The purchase was reported to the SEC on Form 4 on March 12, 2026.

It raised their holding by 407%, to 15,500 shares.

The purchase came after a fall: Gibraltar Industries, Inc. stock was down 20.4% over the 13 weeks before.

1 other insider also bought at least $10,000 of ROCK within 30 days, which makes this a cluster buy.

In the 12 months up to this filing, Gibraltar Industries, Inc. insiders reported 3 open-market purchases and 0 sales.

WallStPal Score: 61 out of 100, because of raised their holding by 407%; a large purchase; 1 other insider also bought; the stock had fallen 20.4% in the 13 weeks before.

What happened next: after 1 month the stock was up 3% (5.5 points better than the S&P 500); after 3 months the stock was down 4.9% (14.6 points worse than the S&P 500); after 6 months the stock was up 10.3% (4.2 points worse than the S&P 500). Based on weekly prices from the week of the purchase.

Our read

This one purchase is 68% of all insider buying at ROCK in the past year, the first open-market purchase by James S. Metcalf in our records, made after a 20.4% fall in 13 weeks, a setup where insider buying has historically mattered most. A single purchase is a data point, not a forecast: insiders can be early, and sometimes simply wrong.

Source: SEC Form 4 filing ↗. This story was written automatically from the filing and weekly price data. Information, not investment advice.

Examples

Big insider purchases have made news before. In January 2016, with bank stocks falling, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon bought 500,000 JPMorgan shares, about $26 million of his own money, and the purchase was widely reported as a sign of confidence.

Explain it like I'm 13

James S. Metcalf helps run Gibraltar Industries, Inc.. Spending $502,165 of their own money on the company's stock is like a coach buying a big stack of tickets to their own team's games: it suggests they think the team will do well. It is not a promise, and insiders can be wrong.

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