SEC Charges Former Corporate Executive with Insider Trading (HedgeCo.net) (HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced insider trading charges against Bradley C. Davis, a former Vice President of Nordson Corporation, an Ohio-based manufacturing company. The SEC’s complaint alleges that in 2016, Davis regularly received confidential reports showing the strong financial performance of Nordson’s core adhesives division, the largest division at the company. Based on these reports, Davis allegedly purchased Nordson stock and options contracts prior to the company announcing favorable quarterly earnings that exceeded market expectations. According to the complaint, Davis sold his securities shortly after each of these earnings announcements, realizing over $850,000 in illicit profits from the rise in the Nordson’s stock price.