Insider Buying Week 5-12-23 Prelude to Something but What?

Insiders are coming out in force to buy regional and community banks.  Normally significant insider buys are met with a predictable market response, a positive bounce between 3%-5%. This is not happening.  There is no urgency, as the stocks, for the most part, are lower than when the “informed investor” purchased the shares.  I like to believe that no one knows more about the business than the people running it, but banks may be a glaring exception to my dogma.  First of all, banks’ balance sheets are complicated and notoriously obtuse.   2008 should serve as an indelible reminder of that. … Read more

Strange Days Insiders Abandon the Market Week 10-21-22

“Strange days have found usStrange days have tracked us downThey’re going to destroyOur casual joysWe shall go on playing or find a new town”- the Doors 1967   We had some technical difficulties with The Insiders Report in getting our payment module to work.  So until we can figure out where the theme and the payment module collide, The Insiders Report is free. Unfortunately, there isn’t much in the way of insider activity to write about, but that’s not stopping the market from lifting. The Dow soared 748 points, and the S&P rose 2.37% on Friday ending one of the … Read more

No Bottom in Sight Insider Buying Week 10-14-22

Curious about how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the blog posts and see for yourself It’s been over nine months since the bear market began.  That is about the average time most bear markets end, but there is nothing average about this bear market.  There are just too many unsettling things for the investor’s animal spirits to soar.  Years of interest rates held at artificially low levels near zero and the Fed on an unpredictable and reckless path of rapid interest rates hikes. The dividend yield of the S&P 500 is 1.79% versus Friday’s 4% Treasury … Read more