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Not Much in the Way of Insider Buys Week 10-9-20 but Kyle Bass files on $SBE

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LIQUIDITY SERVICES INC up 43.2% AMAZON COM INC up 2.92% Medtronic plc up There wasn’t much happening in new insider buys but when CEO Angrick bought 94,567 shares of Liquidity Services at $7.57, it lit a match under this dormant stock. LQDT roared 43% on this vote of confidence.  Liquidity Services operates a network of e-commerce marketplaces. Its online auction marketplaces include: Liquidation.com, GovDeals.com, Network International, GoIndustry DoveBid, IronDirect, Machinio, and Secondipity.com. Indra Nooyi has been regularly adding to her Amazon holdings since becoming a director.  This purchase of 92 shares of AMZN at $3,193.22 looks more like the former … Read more

What were insiders buying during this historic market sell-off?

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This was a week like none other- well, that’s not quite correct, a week like only 4 others in terms of market losses since 1945.  The Coronavirus put the stock market into intensive care. It remains to be seen if the general population follows it into the sick ward. The Dow  closed Friday, 357 points, or 1.4%, lower, on its seventh day in the red. At its worst, the index was down nearly 1,086 points. It dropped 3,583 points this week, including its worst one-day point drop in history on Thursday. On a percentage basis, Thursday’s 4.4% slump was the worst performance since … Read more

Stock Market gets Clobbered- Insiders are Nibbling

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Insider Buying Week Ending May 31, 2019
Jay Hoag of Zillow Goes All In

Trump rocks market with trade wars on multiple fronts.  Impromptu tweet on Friday about tariffs on Mexico linked to immigration enforcement cap off a month that most investors would like to forget.  Monday’s action is likely not to be any better for FANGS with the news that the Justice Department is opening up an anti-trust investigation on Google aka Alphabet.   S&P 500 Wipes Out $4 Trillion in Its Second-Worst May Since the ‘60s.  Insiders are nibbling at a few names but in the short term are losing money like everyone else.

Update on where the insiders are buying now $ABT,$MDT,$EW,$AGN

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It was  a week ago that we blogged about 4 medical stocks that insiders were buying that looked particularly  appealing to us.  We were heavily invested in these names with our largest position in Abbott Laboratories.  Listening to the Republican leadership on Capital Hill addressing how they planned on dismantling Obamacare and substituting it with something cheaper and with more choice, enforced just how clueless they were on making substantive changes to the healthcare industry.  Besides this is the largest segment of the economy  and one that has very well paid lobbyists.  I just can’t see this Republican congress and White … Read more

Blue Chip Is The New Alpha – Seeking Alpha

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We loved this provocative article from Seeking Alpha, especially the quote from Alexander Graham Bell.  We may be biased though as we are also long JPM,K,MSFT, INTC, MCD, PG and BP and the author, Stephen Perry, is interning for us this summer. Blue Chip Is The New AlphaJuly 30, 2012  | 3 comments  |  includes: AAPL, ABT, CL, CVX, DD, GE, IBM, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MDT, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PEP, PFE, PG, T, TGT, VZ, WFC, WMT, XOMIts been difficult to find alpha in a market that is so volatile and dependent on global macro events, but I think Ive … Read more