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Insider Buying Week 08-15-25 The Insider Buying Spigot Opened

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  The insider buying spigot opened a bit wider this week, but don’t mistake activity for conviction. Yes, we saw some heavyweight swings—Jared Isaacman dropping $16.3 million on Shift4 Payments and Amrize’s freshly-minted CEO Jan Jenisch betting $23.3 million on his construction materials spinoff. These aren’t lunch money purchases. But here’s what gnaws at me: in a world hypnotized by AI’s insatiable appetite for data centers and energy infrastructure, are we witnessing genuine bottom-fishing or just executives with more money than sense? Eli Lilly’s triumvirate of buyers—Ricks, Fyrwald, and Skovronsky—collectively dropped $2.7 million around $640 per share. That’s either supreme … 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

‘m Giving Robert Coury another Change to F*ck Me, Insider Trading Week Ending 12-18-20

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For trade details click on this link to the trades   PROGENITY Inc up 38.05%  COO Silvestry bought 58,081 shares of PROG at $4.58.  Progenity announced on December 17th  that it is expanding the availability of COVID-19 RT-PCR testing across the United States to support the rising demand for testing. Testing is performed using the Thermo Fisher Applied Biosystems TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit, under Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA. Although the stock rocketed on this news combined with insider buying, it’s been a rough haul for shareholders.  Give this one a little time to pullback. PROG recently did a … Read more

How Reliable is Insider Selling? Not Very

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We look at insiders buying and selling of their companies’  stock. Analyzing insider selling can be tricky, though, and does not guarantee a negative outlook. People sell  for a variety of reasons: there are planned sales, employees retiring, and people just wanting to cash in their returns but they buy for one reason, to make money. It’s normal to see insiders selling on a regular basis. That doesn’t raise red flags. However, we look for unusual patterns: insiders selling at 52-week lows (not something you want to see in a stock you own), cluster selling, and smart insiders(those that have exhibited … Read more