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Insider Buying Week 9-30-22

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Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the blog posts and see for yourself September secured its reputation as the cruelest month in the market with a bone-crushing loss S&P 500 loss of 9%. It also set a 52-week low to cap off its worst month since March 2020.  We are deep into the quarterly earnings blackout, and most insiders are restricted from buying their company’s stock for two more weeks, at least until the middle of October.  All bear markets in the last 20 years have ended with a crescendo of insider buying.  As you … Read more

‘s 5% Decline

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 lost over 6% points last week after losing 5% in the previous week. Stocks don’t fall like this unless there is something really wrong. I’m trying to figure that out and the only thing that I can come up with is that the Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The … Read more

The Insiders Fund update and coronavirus thoughts

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Just wanted to update the partners and interested parties on recent events and market turmoil. As of yesterday the Fund was up about 2.88% for the month. These are unofficial numbers but highly reliable nonetheless. After today, I expect that gain will be gone.  The market is in the grips of a psychological panic caused by the coronavirus.  It doesn’t matter if this is justified or not, it just is. Particularly hard hit have been airlines which was our highest exposure as an industry group.  We have been reducing this exposure and as of the time of writing, we have … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Week Ending 2-14-20

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Avis got a new Chairman of the Board and he bought a lot of stock. Bernardo Hees, CEO of Kraft Heinz, bought 430,169  of CAR at $34.87.  That was his first purchase and it was a big one, $15 million.  It’s hard to say what the future is for the car rental companies with the gig economy, ride sharing, and autonomous vehicles. It’s not one we want to participate in, though. Chairman of the Board, Duncan, continues to amass significant shares of Enterprise Products Partners. Taken into perspective, this $5 million EPD buy represents a pittance of his vast holdings, … Read more

Notable Insider Buying Week Ending Nov. 22, 2019

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Please read the last paragraph before you invest.   Following insiders, although childishly simple and obvious of an idea, is fraught with danger.  You can lose money.  There are a lot of nuances to interpreting. For example, the significance of a billionaire buying $300,000 worth of stock is like the average person tippling the valet $5. It doesn’t mean much.  We try to grab the essence of an interesting buy with as few words as possible. Why does Aramark CEO buy $1.49 million of stock at $42.68? Perhaps he is jealous of seeing his Chairman of the Board make $1,000,000, 30% … Read more

Insiders Put the Petal to the Metal as Animal Spirits Show Signs of Life

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Animal spirits are picking up.  This is the most buying we’ve seen since the market sell-off last December. One thing for sure, Insiders buy stocks when they think they are cheap.  Highlights are: Several insiders bought GE stock immediately prior to and immediately after Harry Markapolis’s interview on CNBC where he alleged fraud. Axogen Chairman bought $1 million worth of stock after the company she leads plunged 30% on weaker earnings forecast Outdoor billboard leader, Clear Channel newly appointed Chairman bought $913k at $2.28 per share.  CCO is loaded with debt. Three CIT insiders took advantage of low prices to … Read more

‘s Getting Interesting- Insider Buying Picks Up Week Ending 8-9-19

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After weeks of dull action, insider buying has finally picked up. Part of it is the end of 2nd Quarter earnings blackout and part of it is the market sell-off.  The highlights: Charlie Egren, the founder of Dish, is making a massive bet on 5G, buying assets in the pending TMobile Sprint network and committing billions to buy more bandwidth.  Its a bet the farm expensive gamble on a player late to the game.  But if the competing networks are slow in getting 5G rolled out, Dish might be able to lumber in and get a piece of the future … Read more

‘s Insider Buys

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Odonate ODT’s Chairman and CEO Kevin Tang has made open market purchases of more than $36 million in so far this June, including $10 million on the spot secondary at the highest price his paid all year.   This is a bet the farm investment but seems to be validated by the market as ODT stock has more than tripled this year. Three insiders buy AbbVie after Wall Street choked on their purchase of Allergan.  Do two out of favor big pharma companies add up to 4? Wall Street certainly doesn’t think so. Carnival Cruise CEO Donald Arnold bought just under … Read more

Occidental Petroleum Insiders Say Enough is Enough- Our Stock is too Cheap to Ignore

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Insider Buying Week Ending June 14, 2019 Occidental Petroleum insiders say enough is enough, quit trashing our stock by collectively buying over $4 million worth in the open market. Oil stocks are big underperformers but ever since Oxy announced the purchase of Anadarko, the stock has been in free fall. American Asset Trust insiders buying at new highs and continue to get rewarded at this diversified REIT. REMAX founder and once barred insider Linder returns with a vengeance scooping up another $2.9 million adding to his buys from last week. Guess CEO increases his holdings by over 230% buying nearly … 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.