Insider Buying Week 08-09-24

Someone wrote last week that the situation in the market was ripe for a crash, reminiscent of the Crash of 1987. I lived through that, so I have some personal observations. Name: Thomas Arthur Bell Position: CEO Transaction Date: 2024-08-01 Shares Bought: 1,712 Average Price Paid: $145.04 Cost: $248,305 Company: Leidos Holdings Inc. (LDOS) Leidos Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1969 and has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia. Leidos Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries offer services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets in the United States and abroad. The company’s segments include Defense Solutions, Civil, and … 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

Insider Buying week 11-19-21- Insiders are Stepping up

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. This report is going to be delayed due to a funeral I had to attend for my dear first cousin’s, husband, who passed away at 75years of age. It brought me back to Savannah, my hometown, on the marsh and waterways of Skidaway Island. I will get to the opinion pieces as I write the Insiders Report for myself. It’s my way of processing insider buying.  And there was a lot of it, this time … Read more

Some Insiders are Killing it- Everything is UP- Week Ending February 7, 2020

Wow- did you see our pick of the week, Groupon?  Groupon rocketed over 50% Friday on better than expected quarterly earnings and an enormous short squeeze. GRPN traded 13 times normal volume which makes it prime for a price reversal. I listened to the earnings call and not sure how convincing the turnaround story will be. Didn’t hear on attaboy from the handful of analysts obligatorily covering the fallen unicorn.  It’s still mind number to think they turned down $5.7 Billion from Google. I’m going to make a mental note that when Google offers me $5.7 billion for my company, … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Week of 8-23-19 as Trump Tweets Scare Investors

We are throwing out AESE as this wasn’t filed correctly and upon further review, it was deemed not to be an open market purchase Fossil Group insiders bought $2.2 million worth of this watch and teen wear company. FOSL group is in a race down the down staircase with decreasing revenues and decreasing SGA. Change Health Care is McKesson’s giant conglomerate of health tech companies recently gone public with Blackstone as their private equity investors. I haven’t had good luck with private equity IPOs, saddled with debt and selling institutional investors. This one doesn’t have any long term debt but it … Read more