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Notable Insider Buys Week of 8-23-19 as Trump Tweets Scare Investors

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We are throwing out AESE as this wasn’t filed correctly and upon further review, it was deemed not to be an open market purchase Fossil Group insiders bought $2.2 million worth of this watch and teen wear company. FOSL group is in a race down the down staircase with decreasing revenues and decreasing SGA. Change Health Care is McKesson’s giant conglomerate of health tech companies recently gone public with Blackstone as their private equity investors. I haven’t had good luck with private equity IPOs, saddled with debt and selling institutional investors. This one doesn’t have any long term debt but it … 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

Notable Insider Buys and Sales Week Ending 1-4-19 No One is Buying Yet!

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  I wrote in last week’s blog post, that “The next month will tell everything.  Every meaningful rout in the market has ended when a crescendo of insider buying has restored confidence and validated values.  We are not there yet but the question is will we get there when the 4th quarter blackout period ends.  Right now we are in a period where most insiders are prohibited from buying stock so close to the quarter end. This graph below shows a significant tick up in insider buying, the highest its been in a year but considering how grim the news … Read more

Notable Insider Buys and Sales Week Ending 12-21-18

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The next month will tell everything.  Every meaningful rout in the market has ended when a crescendo of insider buying has restored confidence and validated values.  We are not there yet but the question is will we get there when the 4th quarter blackout period ends.  Right now we are in a period where most insiders are prohibited from buying stock so close to the quarter end. This graph below shows a significant tick up in insider buying, the highest its been in a year but considering how grim the news is, I’d like to see a crescendo of buying … Read more

Notable Insider Buys and Sales Week Ending 12-14-18

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As the market has sold off, insiders are starting to take advantage of lower prices. This last week was disappointing as there were few notable buys.  They are listed below: Buys NMRK Newmark Group- CEO Barry Gosin purchased $9 million worth at an average price of $9.05 per share. Newmark Group, Inc. provides commercial real estate services in the United States and internationally. Its investor/owner services and products include capital markets, such as investment sales; and agency leasing, property management, valuation and advisory, and diligence and underwriting, as well as government sponsored enterprise lending, loan servicing, debt and structured finance, and … Read more

Panic around the corner? Notable Insider Buys and Sales Week Ending 12-7-18

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As the market has sold off, insiders are starting to take advantage of lower prices. We are not yet at a level  where insiders are full throated buyers but several are willing to bet sizable sums of money. Panic is around the corner but not here yet. We outline the most notable ones below. Buys MHK Mowhak Industries  Billionaire Filip Balcaen continues to bet on global carpet manufacturer Mohawk Industries.  It’s nice to have the luxury of waiting out market anxieties. UAL United Airlines Dir Edward Shapiro is batting 1000 when he purchased 30,000 at $92.57.  I personally think Southwest is … Read more

Notable Insider Buys and Sales Week Ending 11-2-18

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Buys MHK Mohawk Industries  Billionaire Director Balcean continues to buy this beaten down carpet manufacturer with a purchase of $29.6 million at an average price of $118.42 SNX Synex Corp  The Washington Service wrote On Oct. 12, SYNNEX Corp. (SNX) shares fell to a three-year low of $72.83. As shown on the graph below, Director Matthew Miau purchased 122,202 shares of the IT supply chain services provider on weakness on Oct. 19, indirectly through Silver Star Developments Ltd. The $9.6 million buy is Miau’s first at the company and marginally increased his holdings, and represents the largest purchase in SNX’s … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Skyrocket Week Ending 5-11-8

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$TSLA,$DDR,$SOHU,$ETM,$XRAY,$FLR,$AAT,$CVS,$CUTR,$D,$TEVA,$TUP,$UAL,$MHK,$AMP,$GOGO,$TEGP,$SMG,$LCII,$AYI,$HTZ,$AYI,$MTSI,$MO,$HFC,$DATA In this report, we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors bought and sold ending the week of May 11, 2018. 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, $100 thousand or more, as anything less could just be window dressing. The bar is different with selling, because the natural state of management is to be sellers. This is because most companies provide significant amounts of management compensation packages as stock. Therefore, with selling, we analyze for unusual patterns, … Read more

Insider Selling Swamps Buying – Week Ending in May 4-2018

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$DDR,$RDN,$FB,$GRMN,$ORCL,$MA,$NYT,$DOCU,$BMN,$PYPL,$CRM,$MASI,$ALXN In this report, we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors bought and sold ending the week of May 4, 2018. 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, $100 thousand or more, as anything less could just be window dressing. The bar is different with selling, because the natural state of management is to be sellers. This is because most companies provide significant amounts of management compensation packages as stock. Therefore, with selling, we analyze for unusual patterns, such … Read more