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Insider Buying Week 04-24-26

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Management, led by CEO Terry Duffy, is pragmatic and capital allocation-focused—returning massive cash via dividends while steadily expanding into new areas like crypto derivatives and prediction markets. Name: Kenneth BockhorstPosition: Chairman, President & CEOTransaction Date: 04-21-2026 Shares Bought: 2,200 shares an average price paid of $117.53 for a cost of $258,573 Company: Badger Meter Inc. (BMI) Badger Meter, Inc. manufactures and offers flow measurement, quality control, and communication solutions around the world. The company provides utility water smart metering solutions, software technology, and services to the municipal water utility industry. It also supplies flow instrumentation products, such as meters, valves, … Read more

Insider Buying Week 04-17-26

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Management, led by CEO Terry Duffy, is pragmatic and capital allocation-focused—returning massive cash via dividends while steadily expanding into new areas like crypto derivatives and prediction markets. Name: William R. ShepardPosition: DirectorTransaction Date: 03-26-2026 Shares Bought: 1,470 shares an average price paid of $297.38 for a cost of $437,101 Company: CME Group Inc. (CME) CME Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It provides futures and options products based on interest rates, equity indices, and foreign exchange, as well as agricultural, energy, and metals commodities, fixed income, and … Read more

Why I am All IN on the Berkshire Hathaway Trade

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With legendary Warren Buffett stepping down, investors are despondent, reflected in BRK B’s flat performance over the last two weeks despite the overall market’s sharp 12% rise. THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. I rely on proprietary technical indicators, but the most reliable is RSI relative strength divergence,which I explain in my book, The Investment Survival Guide, and on my blog, insomniachedge.com/blog. I bought Berkshire yesterday for both the hedge fund I manage and my personal account. Last night, I discovered it flashed a bullish RSI divergence signal—by far the most important and reliable chart pattern. Pro tip: Comparing Berkshire’s recent … Read more

Headline Risk? Sure Why Not? Insider Buying Week 04-13-26

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The light of day is coming up on this self imposed quarterly earnings blackout. 1st Quarter Earnings begins in earnest, next week. We will see then if stock are cheap enough for any insiders to jump in. Name: Celeste Beeks MastinPosition: President and CEOTransaction Date: 04-07-2026 Shares Bought: 5,170 shares an average price paid of $57.08  for a cost of $295,104 Company: Fuller H B Co. (FUL) H.B. Fuller Company, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets adhesives, sealants, coatings, polymers, tapes, encapsulants, additives, and other specialized chemical products. It operates in three segments: hygiene, health, and consumable adhesives; engineering … Read more

Do Insiders have an Edge in the War? Blackout Period in the Fog of War.

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The self imposed quarterly earnings blackout could have not happened at a worse time. When market participants most want answers, insiders are restricted from trading in their own stocks generally 30 days before the Quarter end until they publish these results. When Macro trumps everything, like it does now with the current War with Iran, does insider buying have relevance? The answer to this will only be apparent in time. My hunch is that insiders know as much about macro as anyone else- which is to say NOT much. They may have no edge during this time. But they do … Read more

Insider Buying Week 03-27-26

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When Macro trumps everything, does insider buying have relevance. The answer to this will only be apparent in time. My hunch is that insiders know as much about macro as anyone else. Name: Charles V. BerghPosition: DirectorTransaction Date: 03-20-2026  Shares Bought: 6,090 shares an average price paid of $164.20 for a cost of $999,978 Company: Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU) Lululemon Athletica Inc., along with its subsidiaries, designs, distributes, and sells technical athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories for women and men under the lululemon brand in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and other countries. It … Read more

Insider Buying Week 03-20-26 When Macro Trumps Everything

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When Macro trumps everything, does insider buying have relevance. The answer to this will only be apparent in time. My hunch is that insiders know as much about macro as anyone else. Name: Manuel J. Perez De  La MesaPosition: DirectorTransaction Date: 03-13-2026  Shares Bought: 5,000 shares an average price paid of $205.00 for a cost of $1,025,000 Company: Pool Corp. (POOL) Pool Corporation provides swimming pool supplies, equipment, related recreational, irrigation, and landscape care items in the United States as well as around the world. The company provides maintenance products such as chemicals, supplies, and pool accessories; repair and replacement … Read more

Insider Buying Week 03-13-26 Sitting on our Hands

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When the CEO-to-Seller ratio hits a 20-month high, the message is clear: Preservation is currently more important than participation. We are seeing “distribution” from institutional players to retail, and until the inflation data cools or we see a broader base of insider buying across sectors like financials and industrials, we are content to watch from the fence. The outliers are always worth a look, but for the most part, the best trade this week was no trade at all. Name: Richard H. Fearon Position: Director Transaction Date: 03-06-2026  Shares Bought: 1,000 shares an Average Price Paid of $306.34 for Cost: $306,340 … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-27-26 WAR Street Bargains Average Insider Return 5.7%

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War adds a new calculus.  Predictable trends crumble in the face of the unpredictable nature of war. I can’t imagine it leading to anything significant enough to disrupt the market.  If this war is over in days or a few weeks, expect a rally. If it lingers on for months, then this is a different game board. Gold Up, Oil up, Dollar stable or up, defense stocks strong.  Insiders don’t play these kind of macro events as their crystal ball is no better than anyone else. We focus on reading the tea leaves left by these insiders.  Average weekly return … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-20-26 Average Return 1.75% The Waiting Game Bytes to Kilowatts

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So far the year is shaping up completely predictable. Last year’s winners or this year’s laggards. The AI trade has moved from the Capex spenders to the Capex beneficiaries.  Let’s call it bytes to kilowatts.  Notable insiders, not just any insiders but the ones that we identify as notable purchases moderately outperformed popular indices last week.  There is a lot of pain but it’s masked by the notable outperformance of the S&P 500 minus the MAG 7.  RSP over S&P. Name: Robert G. Ashe Position: Director Transaction Date: 02-18-2026  Shares Bought: 3,681 shares an Average Price Paid of $543.21 for … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-13-26 Average Return 6.79%

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Notable insiders, not just any insiders but the ones that we identify as notable purchases continue to outperform the indices. The Nasdaq composite was down 2.10% while the S&P was down 1.39% and the RSP was up 0.33%. My gut feel is there is a pattern underway.  The hyperscalers building out the AI infrastructure are getting penalized, SAS Armageddon continues unabetted, and mainstream slow growth industrial and consumer stalwarts are beginning to benefit from their AI efficiency gains. Name: Timothy R. Barakett Position: Director Transaction Date: 02-09-2026  Shares Bought: 50,000 shares an average price paid of $104.93 for Cost: $5,246,500  … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-06-26 Last Week Average Insider Gain 9.6%

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The Nasdaq composite was down 1.84% while the RSP was up 2.11% That pretty much said it all.  There was rotation all right and painful if you weren’t on the right side of it. Most of these insiders were.  The average return last week of the stocks we highlight was 7.89%.  I think you’d be happy with that in your portfolio. Name: William C. Boor Position: President & CEO Transaction Date: 02-04-2026  Shares Bought: 1,000 shares an Average Price Paid of $495.00 for Cost: $495,000 Name: David A. Greenblatt Position: Director Transaction Date: 02-03-2026  Shares Bought: 500 shares an Average … Read more

Insider Buying 02-14-25 Buyers Coming Back as Blackout Abates and Uncertainty Rocks Stocks

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As Q4 earnings announcements start to wind down, we would expect to see a pickup in insider activity. We are seeing that, particularly in sectors that have sold off in anticipation of possible Trump regulatory changes that would make business more challenging and potentially less profitable. Of course, no one really knows for certain about any of this as Trump has shown a great propensity to say one thing and actually do another.  He may be bluffing, posturing or may change his mind. It’s very unpredictable but you have to assume when insiders buy into this, they are considering this, … Read more

Insider Buying Week 09-27-24 Is Inhibrx Biosciences another Biohaven? Insiders Seem to think so

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The bulletproof market stumbles on; not escalating war in the Middle East or a tumultuous Presidential election in the U.S. seems to faze it. Insiders are mainly sitting this one out, whether it’s the priciness of the market or the quarterly earnings blackout window; insiders are on the sidelines except when it comes to selling. They are hitting the bid like trout on a hatchery pond. Notable sales alone last week included Draft King, Banc of America (Berkshire unloading), Carvana, Seagate Technology, Toll Brothers, and that was just what was reported on Friday last week.  It’s hard to glean much … Read more

Grail spinoff- the largest AI Machine Learning Project in Medicine- Galleri is “The Holy Grail” of Genomic Testing

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Grail is hard to analyze, but the potential upside is staggering.  Due to their regulatory challenges, there is a paucity of information, obfuscated by likely insider dealing and related third-party transactions, and an abundance of lawyers due to regulatory challenges. Icahn waged a proxy fight, and ultimately, the EU forced Illumina to divest Grail.  Analysts are probably waiting until the spin-off is done on June 24th before there will be much commentary, as many banks have been feeding at this trough . But first, here are some quick facts about the spinoff itself. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699031/000119312524148672/d556103dex991.htm#toc556103_ Grail will only have slightly over … Read more

Fathers Day Insider Buying Week 06-14-24

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The post took a backseat to Father’s Day last week. Looking closely, you can see me with DJI FPV goggles next to my son at Tunnel Park. In the background, the sun sets over Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Considering the quarter end and recurring blackout period, there was an unusual amount of insider buying.  I will update the rest of the entries, so check back later in the week for more. You can be an insider, too– by clicking here   Name: Michael L Speiser Position: Director Transaction Date: 2023-06-07 Shares Bought: 76,200 Average Price Paid: $131.09 … Read more

Insider Buying Week 05-17-24 Biotech Bonanza

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I was a little late in finishing the blog, as there were many more names to research. Most of the quarterly earnings are behind us, and it is heartening to see that insider buying has picked up a little. Speculative biotech is heating up.   Name: F Thomson Leighton Position: Chief Executive Officer Transaction Date: 2023-05-14 Shares Bought: 22,000 Average Price Paid: $92.68 Cost: $2,038,960 Company: Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) Akamai aims to empower and defend life online. Since 1998, Akamai has created and delivered technologies to help global businesses design, deliver, and protect their digital experiences on their widely … Read more

Insider Buying Week 05-10-24 The Earnings Blackout Curtain is Lifting

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The blog is a work in progress, like a public journal/filing system. Most of the quarterly earnings are behind us, and it is heartening to see that insider buying has picked up a little. Could there be some value in a market that feels scoured over, like an 80% off sale at Neiman Marcus? There were even some large insider buys in marquis names. Could there be some gems here?  This is my first crack at most of them. The Earnings Blackout Curtain is Lifting. You can be an insider, too– by clicking here   Name: Lester B Knight Position: … Read more

Insider Buying Week 04-26-24 In the Heart of 1st Quarter Earnings Blackout Darkness

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We are deep in the blackout period when most companies prohibit insiders from trading in their stock prior to quarterly earnings. It’s been ugly for the bulls, but there might be some green shoots. You can be an insider, too– by clicking here Name: Henry A  Fernandez Position: Chairman and CEO Transaction Date: 2024-04-25 Shares Bought: 13,000 Average Price Paid: $465.92 Cost: $6,056,955 Company: MSCI Inc. (MSCI) Name: CD Baer Pettit Position: President & COO Transaction Date: 2024-04-25 Shares Bought: 7,500 Average Price Paid: $459.41 Cost: $3,445,575 Company: MSCI Inc. (MSCI) MSCI Inc. is a top provider of crucial decision-support … Read more

Insider Buying Week 04-19-24

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We are deep in the blackout period when most companies prohibit insiders from trading in their stock prior to quarterly earnings. It’s been ugly out there for the bulls. Name: Vincent P. DiFronzo Position: EVP,-Air Force & Comb Commands Transaction Date: 2024-04-12 Shares Bought: 795 Average Price Paid: $126.04 Cost: $100,202 Company: Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) Science Applications International Corporation offers technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily in the United States. The company’s offerings include IT modernization; digital engineering; artificial intelligence; weapon systems support, which designs, builds, modifies, integrates, and sustains weapon systems; and end-to-end services, … Read more

Insider Buying Week 04-12-24 and The Insiders Fund 1st Quarter Partner Letter

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We are deep in the blackout period when most companies prohibit insiders from trading in their stock prior to quarterly earnings. Nonetheless, that rarely stops insiders from finding ways to sell using the ubiquitous 10b 5-1 selling plan loophole that the SEC and corporate America arranged for themselves. There’s not much to write about this week on the corporate insider buying front, but we have a lot to say in The Insiders Fund 1st Quarter 2024 Partner letter on our website.  You can be an insider, too– by clicking here Follow us on Twitter for  insider buying alerts at https://twitter.com/theinsidersfund     … Read more

Insider Buying Week 03-22-24 Let the Games Begin

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An arms race is just beginning, but it’s not the traditional weapons of war. Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology to come along since the Internet. Large language models like Open AI’s ChatGPT are the machine learning equivalent of the Internet browser. The full-fledged arms race is underway.   Name: Brent Windom Position: Director Transaction Date: 2024-03-19 Shares Bought: 2,617 Average Price Paid: $83.00 Cost: $217,211 Transaction Date: 2024-03-15 Shares Bought: 2,683 Average Price Paid: $80.57 Cost: $216,173 Company: Advance Auto Parts Inc (AAP) Advanced Auto Parts, Inc. was formed in 1929 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. … Read more

Insider Buying Week 03-08-24 FOMO or FEAR?

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I’ve been struggling to explain the speculative frenzy I sense in the markets. Stocks routinely go up and down 20% on earnings or even something as trivial as an analyst upgrade or downgrade yet the underlying market seems calm, benign even. The VIX, which is the current mathematic model for measuring short-term volatility, steadily trends lower. The VIX is a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500, and by now, everyone understands that the capitalization-weighted nature of that index dominates the recent stock market performance. The popular but obsolete already term ‘Magnificent 7’ refers to a handful of mega … Read more

Insider Purchases Last Week. Nvidia Ignites Massive CAPEX Expansion

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Something significant is happening when staid Dell Technologies is up 31% on its latest quarterly earnings. A giant uptick in capex spending is underway, and it is directly attributable to the stampede to embrace AI.   After a year or more of belt-tightening in tech spending, that moment has arrived, almost all at once, when companies realize they have to invest in AI or be disrupted or obsoleted by a Chatbot, robot, or some version of machine learning.  The architect behind this 20-year evolution is Nvdia. The lion’s share of the spend goes toward NVIDIA’s H100 or L40S GPUs — GPU Server For Deep Learning. … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-23-24 Is Following Insider Buying Dead as a Strategy?

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Insider buying has been noticeably scarce in this bull leg of a market making all-time highs. The small amount of buying is not performing particularly well either.  You might find this news surprising from a hedge fund manager who has made a living reading these tea leaves for 23 years.  Take last Thursday, February 22nd, the morning after Nvidia reported blockbuster earnings.  I’m tracking about 400 stocks where insiders have purchased at least $200,000 of their company’s stock in the last year. This number has remained constant at 300-400 for the last 23 years. The average returns of those stocks … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-16-24 Climbing the Wall of Worry

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  Name: Roger M. Singer Position: Director Transaction Date: 2024-02-12 Shares Bought: 500 Average Price Paid: $357.21 Cost: $178,605 Company: Everest Group Ltd. (EG) Name: John A Graf Position: Director Transaction Date: 2024-02-12 Shares Bought: 695 Average Price Paid: $356.75 Cost: $247,941 Company: Everest Group Ltd. (EG) Name: James Allan Williamson Position: EVP, Chief Operating Officer Transaction Date: 2024-02-09 Shares Bought: 700 Average Price Paid: $352.50 Cost: $246,750 Company: Everest Group Ltd. (EG) Name: Mike Karmilowicz Position: EVP, Pres/CEO Insurance Div Transaction Date: 2024-02-09 Shares Bought: 285 Average Price Paid: $352.39 Cost: $100,430 Company: Everest Group Ltd. (EG) Name: Juan … Read more

Insider Buying Week 02-09-24 Is it the Super Bowl or the Ripping AI Bandwagon?

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Finally, there is some work to do in analyzing insider buying. It’s not much, but it’s better than the last three weeks of nonexistent purchases.  Still, the lazy move, and perhaps the best move, is to get on the AI bandwagon with the companies that have proven they can monetize Now.   The popular wisdom is that the stock market looks forward six months or so, but the reality is quite different. Earnings season is the proof of it. Companies that miss revenues and earnings expectations are punished with swift declines in share value. Those that significantly surpass expectations experience hefty, … Read more

Insider Buying Week 01-26-24 Goose Egg None Zappo Gone

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  In the twenty-two years that I have been assiduously noting and observing insider buying, I have never seen a two-week period where there was not one notable insider purchase.  I understand we are in the heart of the earnings season blackout, where insiders are routinely restricted from buying or selling their company’s stock, but this is ridiculous.  There are plenty of insiders who have found a way to unload their company’s stock, but not one single corporate officer or director has made a purchase of $200,000 or more.  I don’t pay much attention to hedge funds and 10% holders … Read more

Insider Buying Week 12-29-23 Here We go Again with Rampant Speculation

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Here we go again, two insider buys in small biotech names that rocketed 43% and 76% last week.  This didn’t happen in a vacuum. For the last two months or so,  the daily top 50 largest percentage gainers and losers are filled with small-cap and bulletin board names you’ve never heard of, ripping up and down 40%-150% in a shark-like blood-infested feeding frenzy. The list is composed mostly of obscure biotech stocks, pre-revenue or little revenue shells, SPACS, and cryptocurrency names, scams, and fantasies inspired by occasional real biotech transactions, the most notable being the 273% premium Sanofi paid for … Read more

‘s Retreat Continues to Spike the Market

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While some stocks like the Magnificent Seven have had a phenomenal comeback year, many, many companies are depressed in value. For example, many REITs have poor returns, some as a consequence of the sharp rise in interest rates. Agree Realty had a return of -15.34% year-to-date (YTD.) Paying particular attention to significant insider buying is one way to force that discipline of buying cheaply on yourself. When not painting the tape or participating in required corporate ownership requirements, insiders are historically value buyers. This week, we highlight what we think are notable buys. Although we pay attention to selling, we … Read more

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