Insider Buying Week 8-26-22 Jerome Powell Debuts at Jackson Hole as “Chucky “

Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. Friday was a blood bath. The Dow dropped 1000 points. Jerome Powell played Chucky, the criminally insane doll that came to life.  With stunning, chameleon-like performance, he morphed into Paul Volcker, warning the investment community about the pernicious destructive nature of inflation.  Volcker is the Fed Chairman that was famous for crushing the inflation of the 1970s by running interest rates into the high teen percentage points. I personally think it was the most boneheaded policy I’ve lived through. the economic equivalent … Read more

Insider Buying Week 8-5-22 CARVANA NIRVANA

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? The Insider Report hit the ball out of the park Friday, August 5th. We hope you were in the stands with us to watch Carvana CVNA soar out of the stadium, up 40%. We have blogged about it several times in the Insiders Report. Numerous short sellers were saying that CVNA was going to go bust, and it reportedly had a short ratio of 40%, one of the largest out there. That means 40% of the holders of Carvana were betting it would go down, not up. Today they felt a … Read more

Insider Buying Week 5-26-22 Best Week Since November 2020

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 scorched the short-sellers, racking up the best performing since November 2020, up an astounding 6.19% for the week. So is this the all-clear sign?  We wrote last week a Temporary Truce in the Alpha War Zone that the insider buying sell ratio in the NASDAQ stocks looked like it had reached a short-term buy signal.  I hope you were able to take advantage of that. There will probably be a little carry through from such a big move … Read more

Insider Buying week 12-03-21 -Let me Count the Ways I Hate SPACS

Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Click on this link or image above to scroll the significant buys of the last year. I’ve been monitoring insider behavior and how it impacts stock prices for about as long as anyone out there I haven’t seen much that shocks me or changes my perception of the usefulness of this information.  Now I have.  Normally significant insider buying will put a floor on a down-trending stock.  That’s changed with SPACS.  No matter how encouraging the news is or robust the insider buying is, when you have big shareholders waiting in … Read more

Insiders Trounce the Market Week May 14th and a Bold Theme Insiders Uncover

For trade, details click on this link to the trades GREENHILL & CO INC up 11.57% AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 9.37% GoPro Inc. up 8.21% Elanco Animal Health Inc up 7.27% Energy Transfer LP up 6.13% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 6.11% Gogo Inc. up 4.90% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP up 4.56% Vistra Corp. up 4.46% AMERISAFE INC up 4.34% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 3.99% Vistra Corp. up 3.87% Green Brick Partners Inc. up 3.71% Garrett Motion Inc. up 2.66% BANC OF CALIFORNIA Inc up1.77% American Assets Trust Inc. up 1.69% GoPro Inc. up 0.95% Activision Blizzard Inc. down 1.81%   … Read more

Insiders are Nibling- Notable Insider Buy Trupanion TRUP Week ending May 7th

For trade, details click on this link to the trades U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS Inc up13.46% B. Riley Financial Inc. up 11.29% RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS Inc up 9.51% Adtalem Global Education Inc. up 8.37% ELI LILLY & Co up 6.88% PQ Group Holdings Inc. up 6.14% Mayville Engineering Company Inc. up 6.13% TRAVELZOO up 5.50% TRUPANION Inc up 4.62% AMPHENOL CORP up 3.32% INTEL CORP up 2.98% Armstrong Flooring Inc. up 5.58% ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP UP 1.37% American Assets Trust Inc. up 0.95% MASIMO CORP down 3.22% After weeks of near senescence, insiders are nibbling at their own stock. The … Read more

A Bruising Week for Investors yet Insiders Still Post Modest Gains

For trade details click on this link to the trades AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 21.08% American Assets Trust Inc. up 5.36% CHEVRON CORP up 5.03% Sonos Inc up 4.26% NU SKIN ENTERPRISES Inc up 3.41% INCYTE CORP up 1.67% AGREE REALTY CORP up 1.46% GREENHILL & CO INC up 1.21% DuPont de Nemours Inc. up 0.54% Sensei Biotherapeutics Inc. up 0.12% Royalty Pharma plc down -0.56 QUIDEL CORP down -0.63% Macy’s Inc. down -1.36% CERNER Corp down -1.83% ABBOTT LABORATORIES down -2.22% Zoetis Inc. down -5.73% Longeveron Inc. down -20% The market genuflected like the herd following creature it … Read more

The Best August since 1984 but Insider Buying Slows Down Some

The following companies had large insider buying last week.  We are digging in to see what they see. For timely updates, follow us on Twitter. Pacific Ethanol Inc  PEIX Director Gilbert bought 72,800 shares at $3.55.  Ethanol has been a perennial bad investment but that seems to be changing.  Two things are shaking up the dynamics; the coronavirus has created unprecedented demand for alcohol based sanitizer and the prospects of a Democratic environmentally focused administration will increase the use of bio-fuels.  Even Archer Daniels ADM Director bought 11,100 shares at $44.75. PIEX is the leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in … Read more

Occidental Petroleum Insiders Say Enough is Enough- Our Stock is too Cheap to Ignore

Insider Buying Week Ending June 14, 2019 Occidental Petroleum insiders say enough is enough, quit trashing our stock by collectively buying over $4 million worth in the open market. Oil stocks are big underperformers but ever since Oxy announced the purchase of Anadarko, the stock has been in free fall. American Asset Trust insiders buying at new highs and continue to get rewarded at this diversified REIT. REMAX founder and once barred insider Linder returns with a vengeance scooping up another $2.9 million adding to his buys from last week. Guess CEO increases his holdings by over 230% buying nearly … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Skyrocket Week Ending 5-11-8

$TSLA,$DDR,$SOHU,$ETM,$XRAY,$FLR,$AAT,$CVS,$CUTR,$D,$TEVA,$TUP,$UAL,$MHK,$AMP,$GOGO,$TEGP,$SMG,$LCII,$AYI,$HTZ,$AYI,$MTSI,$MO,$HFC,$DATA In this report, we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors bought and sold ending the week of May 11, 2018. Insiders sell stock for many reasons, but they generally buy for just one – to make money.  As a standard, we only look at material amounts of money, $100 thousand or more, as anything less could just be window dressing. The bar is different with selling, because the natural state of management is to be sellers. This is because most companies provide significant amounts of management compensation packages as stock. Therefore, with selling, we analyze for unusual patterns, … Read more