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Insider Buying Week 5-5-23 Banking Blood Bath is it time to Buy?

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Insiders came out to play last week. It was not pretty, but insiders are bottom fishers, as a rule. They buy in force when prices are down when they perceive a bottom.  Regional bank insiders were all over the field scooping up prices that haven’t been seen since the Pandemic lows. Unfortunately, most of it was in regional bank stocks. Bank stocks are notoriously difficult to understand. First of all, they are highly leveraged, between 5-10% Tier 1 capital ratios which is the ratio of a bank’s core tier 1 capital—its equity capital and disclosed reserves—to its total risk-weighted assets.  Usually, that … Read more

Insider Buying Week 8-5-22 CARVANA NIRVANA

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  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

‘s 5% Decline

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 lost over 6% points last week after losing 5% in the previous week. Stocks don’t fall like this unless there is something really wrong. I’m trying to figure that out and the only thing that I can come up with is that the Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The … Read more

RALLY ON

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As the votes came in and the outcome of the Presidential election became clear,  investors voted with their dollars.  The market ripped 7.25% which was the largest election week rally in history.   Not even our insiders could compete with the raw animal spirits unleased by the belief that a Democratic President would be restrained by a Republican Senate.  Gridlock, strangely enough, is celebrated.  There is another narrative-perhaps it was a relief rally that the most disruptive and unpredictable President in a lifetime was gone?   Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. up 9.84% CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL Inc up 7.49% Del Taco … Read more

Brutal week in the Market- Insider Buys Outperform on Average by 600%

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Selecta Biosciences up 12.90% HomeStreet up 4.30% International Business Machines up 3.64% Raytheon Technologies ups 3.64% SMART Global Holdings up 1.54% Cytodyn up 0.16% Employers Holdings up 0.03% Kimberly Clark down 0.06% Ares Capital down 0.65% Pulte Group down -1.76% Crown Castle down -3.72% Universal Stainless & Alloy down 3.72% Agree Realty down 5.51%   Raging pandemic, fears of shutdowns, and the specter of a Presidential election fought in the courts or worse yet the streets-Guns and ammunitions are flying off the shelf.  If you’re for Trump, the market is … Read more

Notable Insider Buying Week Ending November 8-2019

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As a rule, we only look at material amounts of money, $200 thousand or more, as anything less could just be window dressing. The bar is different from 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, 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 … Read more