CFO Todd Booth buys $260,000 of AEVEX Corp. (AVEX)

Todd Booth, chief financial officer of AEVEX Corp., bought 13,000 shares on the open market on April 16, 2026 at an average of $20.00 a share, for a total of $260,000. The purchase was reported to the SEC on Form 4 on April 21, 2026, 1 business day after the deadline.

It is a new position: the filing shows no shares held directly before this purchase.

4 other insiders also bought at least $10,000 of AVEX within 30 days, which makes this a cluster buy.

In the 12 months up to this filing, AEVEX Corp. insiders reported 5 open-market purchases and 0 sales.

WallStPal Score: 60 out of 100, because of a brand-new position; 4 other insiders also bought; bought by a top executive.

What happened next: after 3 months the stock was down 20.5% (31.6 points worse than the S&P 500). Based on weekly prices from the week of the purchase.

Our read

It is one of 5 insider purchases at AVEX in the past year, the first open-market purchase by Todd Booth in our records. 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

Todd Booth helps run AEVEX Corp.. Spending $260,000 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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