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Insider Buying Picks Up- Week Ending 5-15-20

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Insider buying picked up this week across several depressed sectors like insurance,  small regional banks,  gaming, furniture, REITS, building products, restaurants and retailers, automotive and motorcycle and utility stocks. The buy of the week is property and casualty California auto insurer, Mercury General MCY.  Chairman of the Board George Joseph continued accumulating stock with $15 million of stock purchases at an average price of $35.95. MCY is down from it’s high this year of $52.  MCY yields 6.65%. People are driving less and insurance claim losses are down  as a result of that. Offsetting this, reinvestment rates on bond portfolios … Read more

Warning Insider Earnings Plays Can Be Hazardous to your Health Week 10-18-19

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WARNING- BUYING STOCKS BEFORE EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS CAN BE ESPECIALLY RISKY. Stocks have outsized moves on earnings. We analyze these companies carefully where large insider buys might provide some insight. Insiders sell stock for many reasons, but they generally buy for just one – to make money. THE INSIDERS FUND invests in companies at or near prices that management has been willing to invest significant amounts of their own money in.  After all, who knows a business better than the people running it?  You’ve always heard the best information is inside information.  This is as close to “insider information” that an … Read more

U.S. Stocks Have Now Fallen For 5 Weeks In A Row but Some Insiders are Buying

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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.