Insider Buying Week 4-1-22 Beaten Down Biotech Enough is Enough

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll the significant buys of the last year.   We are fully in the nether world of earnings blackout.  It’s difficult anytime to discern the mood of corporate America but the period thirty days prior to and one day after quarterly earnings release are deliberately void of any communication about the health of a public company’s business. It’s the blackout period. Not as sexy as a black hole but nonetheless filled with mischieve and potential danger. I’ve asked my friend Dan Taylor of Wharton Forensics Lab and Frank from SECForm4.com … Read more

Riots, Protests, Pandemics and a Little Insider Buying Week Ending June 5th, 2020

The monster purchase by Mitchell Rales of 141,20 shares of Danaher Corp DHR at $164.69 represented just 0.4% change in his holdings.  If an insider is doubling his holdings, this likely has more significance than just upping your holdings by 4/10 tenths of a percent, but this was still a monster buy and I wanted to analyze it. Danaher has made the Rales brothers billionaires and it seems they are none to eager to unload it. Not sure what to make of Director Glazer’s purchase of $1.7 Million of HCHC.  HC2 Holdings is a publicly traded investment vehicle with Philip … Read more

Notable Insider Buys and Sells Week end Nov 10,2017

$AMH,$NLY,$VRSK,$DXCM,$HAIN,$DS,$DISCK,$TEP,$CAKE,$CECE $KEYW,$CHD,$IBKR,$HPQ,$COL,$MDSO,$ULTI,$CRM In this report we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors  bought and sold ending the week of September 22nd, 2017.  Insiders sell stock for a variety of reasons but they generally buy for just one, to make money.  We only look at material amounts of money, $100k or more, as anything less could be window dressing.  The bar is different on selling as the natural state of management is to be sellers.  Most companies provide significant amounts of their compensation packages as stock. Therefore we analyze selling for unusual patterns; such as insider selling 25% or more … Read more

‘s 2011 Hedge Fund Performance

John Paulson’s 2011 Hedge Fund Performance   Despite a rather disastrous mess of 2011, Paulson has managed to keep redemptions down to just 8%..  An impressive achievement nonetheless, but is it due to belief in the strategy or belief in the brand?  Either way, his performance is a good illustration of how timing can cause even the soundest convictions to run awry.  Don’t forget the importance of a solid hedge when dealing with a timely trade..   The numbers are in for John Paulson’s Paulson & Co. The hedge fund finished 2011 with depressingly low returns reports the New York … Read more