Executives Make Stock Trades

Several executives at Northwest Arkansas companies made inside trades toward the end of 2000. Here are some of the major ones:

Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton and sister to company chairman Robson Walton, sold 600,000 shares of Wal-Mart stock Dec. 5 for $29.7 million. On Nov. 29, Wal-Mart executive vice president John B. Menzer sold a total of 24,900 shares of Wal-Mart for $2.1 million. Different options available to both Walton and Menzer account for the wide variation in stock price.

Jack Shewmaker, through his family’s trust, sold 9,000 of the Bentonville company’s shares Dec. 7 for $491,344.

USA Truck Inc. vice president of operations George R. Jacobs sold a total of 20,000 shares of the Van Buren company’s stock on Nov. 20-21 for $116,875.

Tyson Foods Inc. board member Joe Fred Star paid $100,000 on Oct. 18 for 10,000 shares of Class A Tyson stock. James G. Ennis, the Springdale company’s vice president and chief accounting officer, sold 460 Class A shares Oct. 26 for $4,775.

Matthew T. Moroun, board member of P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown, bought 11,200 shares of the company Nov. 28 for $91,056.

Arkansas Best Corp. chief financial officer David E. Loeffler sold a total of 3,300 of the Fort Smith company’s shares in November for $56,038.

James D. Heuer, a board member of First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. in Harrison, sold 834 shares of the company in November for $14,912.