Insider Buying Week 02-27-26 WAR Street Bargains Average Insider Return 5.7%

War adds a new calculus.  Predictable trends crumble in the face of the unpredictable nature of war. I can’t imagine it leading to anything significant enough to disrupt the market.  If this war is over in days or a few weeks, expect a rally. If it lingers on for months, then this is a different game board. Gold Up, Oil up, Dollar stable or up, defense stocks strong.  Insiders don’t play these kind of macro events as their crystal ball is no better than anyone else. We focus on reading the tea leaves left by these insiders.  Average weekly return … Read more

The Insiders Fund Not So Daily Podcast | Labor Day

Insider Buying Week 08-29-25- Will the Market stay up after Labor Day?

  The week after the long Labor Day weekend always worries me. The hedge funds and titans of Wall Street have had plenty of time to convince themselves that the market is overvalued and plenty of time to collude at their Hampton retreats. Listen to the podcast here You can be an insider, too– by clicking here Name: William Thomas McLain Jr. Position: EVP, CFO Transaction Date: 08-27-2025  Shares Bought: 3,670 shares an Average Price Paid of $68.73 for Cost: $252,239 Name: Brad A. Lich Position: EVP & CCO Transaction Date: 08-27-2025  Shares Bought: 3,280 shares an Average Price Paid … Read more

The Insiders Fund Not So Daily Podcast | Dmitry Pokhilko | SPACs

Insider Buying Week 08-22-25 SPACs are Back

  Insiders tend to be value investors. Defining value investors is another phrase for buying low. It’s hard to say what value is. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Does value mean intrinsic value, using common methods of measuring a company’s discounted cash flow value, or does it mean low P.E. or above-average yield, regular dividends? Lots of books have been written on it, and famous investors, like Warren Buffett and his mentor, Benjamin Graham, have largely defined the category. A value investor more or less believes they are buying a stock for less than its … Read more

Insider Buying Week 08-22-25

The insider buying spigot opened a bit wider this week, but don’t mistake activity for conviction. Yes, we saw some heavyweight swings—Jared Isaacman dropping $16.3 million on Shift4 Payments and Amrize’s freshly-minted CEO Jan Jenisch betting $23.3 million on his construction materials spinoff. These aren’t lunch money purchases. Name: Gregory Hayes  Position: Director Transaction Date: 08-11-2025  Shares Bought: 5,250 shares an Average Price Paid of $191.57 for Cost: $1,005,743 Company: Becton Dickinson & Co. (BDX): Becton, Dickinson and Company, founded in 1897 and incorporated in New Jersey in 1906, is a global medical technology leader that designs, manufactures, and sells … Read more

The Insiders Fund Not So Daily Podcast | Notable Insider Buys

Insider Buying Week 06-06-25

  Never a dull moment in the Trump show.  Big Bromance Thursday with Elon and Trump near simultaneously launching broadsides from the social media platforms. It didn’t seem to faze the stock market in anything but a positive way as Friday’s rally and the generally upward tone of the market bodes well. Listen to the podcast here Name: Melissa D. Smith Position: Chair, CEO, and President Transaction Date: 05-29-2025  Shares Bought: 3,721 shares an Average Price Paid of $134.57 for Cost: $500,720 Company: WEX Inc. (WEX): WEX is a B2B ecosystem provider dedicated to enhancing corporate efficiency by addressing manual … Read more

Insiders Crush Markets- Average Buy up 8.11% vs.-0.77% for the S&P 500

For trade details click on this link to the trades Waitr Holdings Inc. up 36% PLx Pharma Inc. up 35.2% GreenSky Inc. up 17.90% TENNECO INC up 15.90% SURO CAPITAL CORP. up 14.33$ Pandion Therapeutics Inc. 11.90% MultiPlan Corp up 6.32% AtriCure Inc.  up 4.74% MBIA INC up 4.70% MORGAN STANLEY up 4.35% Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. up 4.22% Paramount Group Inc. up 0.52% NATIONAL HEALTH INVESTORS INC down -2.38% G1 Therapeutics Inc. down -6.59% FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC down -9.05%   Director Ortale bought 266,113 shares of Waitr Holdings, a 2nd tier restaurant delivery service.   WAITR was on their way … Read more

These are the Insider Buys that Matter Week Ending 8-14-20

Earnings season is almost over and with it the blackout period that restricts corporate insiders from buying their own company’s stock.  Animal spirits are lighting up the market as insiders are adding fuel to the fire with the biggest increase in buying since the March lows.  Normally insiders buy their stock when it’s cheap and you see less buying when the market is making new highs.  Not this time!  Barry Diller shook up the online gambling world with his Interactive Corp IAC  disclosure that it had gone over the 10% reporting threshold with its most recent purchase of 9,705,785  shares of MGM at … Read more