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Insider Buying Week 12-29-23 Here We go Again with Rampant Speculation

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Here we go again, two insider buys in small biotech names that rocketed 43% and 76% last week.  This didn’t happen in a vacuum. For the last two months or so,  the daily top 50 largest percentage gainers and losers are filled with small-cap and bulletin board names you’ve never heard of, ripping up and down 40%-150% in a shark-like blood-infested feeding frenzy. The list is composed mostly of obscure biotech stocks, pre-revenue or little revenue shells, SPACS, and cryptocurrency names, scams, and fantasies inspired by occasional real biotech transactions, the most notable being the 273% premium Sanofi paid for … Read more

As Buffett Laments Kraft Heinz purchase, his Partner ,Jorge Buys $100 million -Notable Insider Buys Week Ending Sept 20,2019

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Kraft Heinz insider buying dwarfs all others.  While everyone is lamenting the purchase, including Warren Buffett who in a rare error stated publicly that he overpaid for Kraft Heinz, his partner in the deal, Jorge Lemann, buys a $100 million worth of the depressed stock.  Jorge didn’t get to be the 36th richest person in the world according to Forbes, by being stupid. Of course, that is pocket change for Mr. Lemann but the $7 million by van Damme is not. One of the things you have to analyze in insider buying is the significance and meaningfulness of the buy. … Read more