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Insider Buying Week 12-07-24

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How long can the Trump stock market honeymoon go on? Of course no one knows the answer to that.  Anyone who thinks they do is self delusional at best or a charlatan at worst. Name: Jeffrey C Campbell Position: Director Transaction Date: 2024-12-04 Shares Bought: 6,000 Average Price Paid: $149.61 Cost: $897,644 Company: Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC) MPC has over 135 years of experience in the energy industry and is a leading integrated downstream energy firm. The company is a major wholesale supplier of gasoline and distillates to resellers in the United States. The company transports refined products via one … Read more

Insider Buying Week 09-13-24 Stock Merry Go Round

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The stock market had its best week since November 2023, immediately after its worst week of the year. The market is now spitting distance from where it ended the month of August.  Lately, the market has been on a merry-go-round. Trading is killing buy-and-hold, but one week, two weeks, or even two years doesn’t make great hedge fund managers or investors wizards. It’s fun when you win, and it beats watching network TV in a swing state these days. They said it all comes down to the 500,000 undecided voters in the seven states that will determine the Presidential election … Read more

Insiders Retreat and Turn into Sellers Week Ending March 27th

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The Washington Service reports insider buying ratio at the highest level they’v recorded since the Great Recession in the fall of 2008 and the retest in 2009.. They look at a 30 day moving average ratio of insider buys to sells.  All previous markets have sharply rebounded when this occurred. Is this time different? We track insider purchases over $200K very carefully and accurately. Last Friday there were only six buys over $200k and 145 sells.  It seems even insider buying is now rolling over.  That is likely because as we near the end of the quarter, most insiders are … Read more

Coty Insiders Get Serious Again- How Long can it Remain Public?

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It’s only going to get duller from here as we head into 3rd quarter earnings season blackout. With the trade war on hold until October and most insiders blacked out from buying pre-earnings release, there won’t be much to be learned from the insiders’ tea leaves. After the most buying all year, the market responded by rallying sharply. Now insiders have retreated with few exceptions.  They are Coty, the giant cosmetics company controlled by European investment firm JAB Ltd. Coty has struggled with weak sales and executive turnover. On July 19th, the company said it will restructure its operations and … Read more

‘s Refinery Blows Up- Better to be Lucky than Good

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Insider Buying Week Ending June 21, 2019 PBF Energy CEO Buys $950,000 in Stock Moments before Competitor’s Refinery Blows Up reminding me of the saying when it comes to Wall Street, Sometimes It’s Better to be Lucky than Good Ron Perleman thinks Scientific Games is his lottery ticket. Investors aren’t so lucky. Prospect Capital Corp insiders like its 10% plus yield yet the stock is lower now than a year ago in spite of the bull run in yield sensitive names. Medicine Man Technologies is no cure for poverty.  Insiders can play games too. Insiders sell stock for many reasons, … Read more

Insiders See Opportunity in All Kinds of Markets, Especially Bad Ones

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Insider Buying Week Ending June 7, 2019 American Airline insiders buy stock in beaten down airline lifting price action. Waiting on large payback from Boeing 737 Max grounding.  American is incredibly cheap will have significant free cash flow.and will be a direct beneficiary of increased trade with Mexico as it flies more routes than any other airline. John Idol, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Capri Holdings goes all in fashion conglomerate holding company with luxury iconic brands, Versace, Jimmy Choo, and Michael Koors. RE/MAX Holdings disclosed that its co-founder and chairman David Liniger bought a total of 122.9K … Read more

Top Stocks Insiders are Buying and Unloading Week ending 12-8-17

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  In this report we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors  bought and sold ending the week of September 22nd, 2017.  Insiders sell stock for a variety of reasons but they generally buy for just one, to make money.  We only look at material amounts of money, $100k or more, as anything less could be window dressing.  The bar is different on selling as the natural state of management is to be sellers.  Most companies provide significant amounts of their compensation packages as stock. Therefore we analyze selling for unusual patterns; such as insider selling 25% or more of … Read more

Top Stocks Insiders are Buying and Selling Week ending 12-1-17

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$PSEC,$BIIB,$TEP,$MDCO,$ETM,$MELI,$ORLY,$LOXO,$SCHW,$INTU,$DATA,$HDP,$PEN,$CBG,$SHAK,$QLYS,$RJF,$DE,$PANW In this report we examine stocks that C-level officers and directors  bought and sold ending the week of September 22nd, 2017.  Insiders sell stock for a variety of reasons but they generally buy for just one, to make money.  We only look at material amounts of money, $100k or more, as anything less could be window dressing.  The bar is different on selling as the natural state of management is to be sellers.  Most companies provide significant amounts of their compensation packages as stock. Therefore we analyze selling for unusual patterns; such as insider selling 25% or more of … Read more