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Insider Buying picks up Last Week- 57 Buys in 41 Different Companies

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  Wow- Insiders are coming back with a vengeance. The S&P was up 0.71% for the week ending the week with new highs on the S&P 500, the Dow, and the QQQ indices. Insiders returned to the playing field with an average return of 2.67% for the week, easily beating the market.  In this blog post, we analyze, 57 insider buys in about 41 different companies. Now you know what I didn’t do with my weekend.  We highlight the insider purchases that stood out, mostly over $200k and personal money, not … Read more

Another Roller Coaster Week on the Coronavirus Train- Insider Buying is Picking Up

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The headlines don’t stop. Most of them scary and getting worse by the day. That didn’t stop insiders from buying falling knives but not in the quantity I’m looking for to mark the all clear.  The pace of buying is clearly picking up, though IT SEEMS that Friday the 28th was the climax and insiders paused as the news headlines worsened about the virus.  In times of increasing investor panic, insiders will restore confidence, especially when they buy across the board. In this post, we examine insiders purchasing $200,000 of more of their company’s shares, looking for clues that may … Read more

Notable Insider Buying Week 11-29-19

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  Shares of Karuna Therapeutics Inc. KRTX, more than tripled (up 254%) November 19th in active trading to an intraday high of $123.99 after a phase 2 trial of its schizophrenia treatment met its primary endpoint.  Karuna and its underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs et al, wasted no time rushing out a sport secondary at $96 raising $250 million. At Friday’s close of $71.88, people lost serious money in this secondary, including biotech VC and hedge fund Sofinnova Venture Partners which upped their position by$15 million.  No tears shed as they are early investors, buying $15 million on the IPO at … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Week Ending May 17, 2019

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The market gets scarier by the day.  Wealthy individuals pulled their money out at record rates not seen in seven years. Black swans seem to be showing up in multiple corners of the world, China trade war, Iran real war, just to mention a few. None the less that didn’t stop a few insiders with conviction loading up on their company’s stock. In fact, it’s the most buying we have seen in some time. We highlight those over $200,000 in this report.

Notable Insider Buys Week Ending May 10, 2019

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The market suffered its worse loss of the year, but that didn’t stop some insiders buying their own stock. We highlight those over $200,000 in this report. In this report, we highlight open market purchases from employees and directors of more than $200,000.  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, $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 … Read more