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Name: Teyin M. Liu
Position: Director
Transaction Date: 01-13-2026 Shares Bought: 23,200 shares an average price paid of $337.14 for a cost of $7,821,723
Company: Micron Technology Inc. (MU)
Micron Technology Inc. is a global provider of memory and storage solutions that operates in the United States, Asia, and other foreign markets. The corporation is divided into four segments: Cloud Memory, Core Data Center, Mobile and Client, and Automotive and Embedded Business Units. Micron provides a diverse portfolio of memory products, including DRAM components and modules, LPDDR, graphics and high-bandwidth memory, CXL-based solutions, and breakthrough NAND and DRAM technologies. Its storage offerings include data center, client, automotive, and industrial solid-state drives, as well as NAND, NOR flash, and memory cards. Micron serves the data center, PC, mobile, automotive, industrial, networking, and consumer embedded sectors. Micron Technology Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Teyin M. Liu has been a director of Micron Technology, Inc. since March 5, 2025, when the company extended its board and appointed him an independent director. Before joining the Micron board, Liu had a lengthy managerial career in the semiconductor sector, most notably serving as executive chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company until his retirement in June 2024. At Micron, he serves as an independent director on the governance and finance committees. Teyin M. Liu holds advanced engineering degrees, including a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California.
Insomniac Hedge Fund Guy Opinion: Micron’s transformation from commodity cyclical dud to a linchpin of the AI memory ecosystem is one of the most under-appreciated structural shifts of this cycle. The company now commands pricing power in DRAM & HBM markets that were historically brutal on margins — and that’s why its financials have ripped higher. But let’s be blunt: memory is still memory — cyclical, capex-hungry, and easily oversupplied if capex catches up. Yes, insiders buying at strength is bullish psychology, but MU’s valuation embeds peak AI demand forever more than it does realistic downturns. The best risk-adjusted view here isn’t a blow-out long — it’s selective exposure with tight risk controls. Micron is a supercycle beneficiary, but a cyclical believer’s nightmare if AI demand plateaus or competition heats up. Not advice — a sharp, pragmatic take.
Name: Eric Sprott
Position: 10% Owner
Transaction Date: 01-14-2026 Shares Bought: 200,000 shares an average price paid of $33.21 for Cost: $6,642,000
Company: Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (HYMC)
Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. is a gold and silver exploration and development business established in the United States. Its primary focus is on expanding the Hycroft Mine, one of the world’s largest precious metals resources located in northern Nevada’s Tier-1 mining jurisdiction. The company’s current strategy focuses on technical research, exploration drilling, and converting the asset to eventual commercial operations while maximizing high-grade gold and silver potential throughout its vast land holdings. Hycroft is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol HYMC and employs a team to drive research and development initiatives at the site. Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. was founded through its company combination and incorporation in 2017 and took on the name Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation on May 29, 2020.
Eric Sprott has been an owner of Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (HYMC) since March 2022, when he made a significant equity investment that established him as one of the company’s largest shareholders. He became associated with Hycroft at that time as a strategic investor, supporting the company during a critical phase of its development, and has since increased his ownership through additional share purchases disclosed in regulatory filings. Sprott is not involved in day-to-day operations but is recognized for his long-standing influence as a prominent resource-sector investor. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.
Insomniac Hedge Fund Guy Opinion: Hycroft is a story stock, not a revenue-backed producer. The narrative revolves around scale, grade discovery, and balance-sheet repair, not recurring economics. Executive moves to eliminate debt and high-profile insider buys — especially from a large precious-metals focused investor — signal confidence, but this remains a pre-production play with execution risk baked into the price. The absence of revenue or a moat beyond geology makes any valuation speculative; discounting future metal production at realistic costs often yields values materially below current market pricing unless management delivers on sulfide mill commissioning and resource conversion. For deep value oriented players, the stock has optionality, but the margin of safety is thin absent clear timelines to production and cash flow. This is a speculative resource development story first and foremost.
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This info is available for free from the SEC’s Web site, Edgar, although we subscribe to SECForm4 as they provide a way to manage and make sense of the vast realms of data. I’ve tried a lot of vendors. SECForm4 is one of the smaller ones, but I like supporting Frank. He is not arrogant. He’s helpful and has great prices. He also trades on his own data, so I like people that eat what they kill. The bar is different from selling because the natural state of management is to be a seller. This is because most companies provide significant amounts of management compensation packages as stock and options. Therefore, we analyze unusual patterns with selling, such as insiders selling 25 percent or more of their holdings or multiple insiders selling near 52-week lows. Another red flag is large planned sale programs that start without warning. Unfortunately, the public information disclosure requirements about these programs, referred to as Rule 10b5-1, are horrendously poor. Also, planned sales that pop up out of nowhere are basically sales and are seeking cover under this corporate welfare loophole.
I also generally ignore 10 percent shareholders as they tend to be OPM (other people’s money) and perhaps not the smart money on which we are trying to read the tea leaves. I say generally because some 10% shareholders are great investor, think Warren Buffett and others. Of course, insiders can also be wrong about their Company’s prospects. Don’t let anyone fool you into believing they never make mistakes. Do your own analysis. They can easily be wrong, and in many cases, maybe most cases, have no more idea what the future may hold than you or me. In short, you can lose money following them. We have, and we curse aloud; what were they thinking!
We like Fly on the Wall for keeping up with what events might be happening, analysts’ comments, and whatever else could be moving the stock. Dow Jones news service is an essential tool, but many services pick up their feed like they do Bloomberg. She probes the 10k for a reasonable description of the business. I’ve found that to be the most accurate and succinct place to find out what a business actually does. When I have time, over the weekend, I’ll add some preliminary analysis to the Opinion at the end. It is largely done now by my AI. Sometimes I won’t update this for a couple of weeks or more. A good way to use this blog is as I do, it’s a reference point and filing cabinet for various stocks with notable insider buying. It’s one of many tools I use.