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‘s Golden Touch Curiosity Stream $CURI

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For trade details click on this link to the trades CuriosityStream Inc. up 38.44% KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC up 11.98% GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC up 5.53 Apollo Endosurgery Inc. up 5.51% BIOGEN Inc up 4.13% UGI CORP up 3.79% Adtalem Global Education Inc. up 5.51% CALIX INC up2.94% Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. up 0.9% CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP  up 0.88% UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC down -1.33% Anthem Inc.  down -1.81% All it takes is a $million dollars sometime and a track record behind it.  Founder John Hendricks purchased 74,000 shares of Curiosity Stream at $13.50 on 2-8. By the end … Read more

$DNB Dun & Bradstreet Insiders show a lot of conviction but the market is unconvinced

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$DNB Insiders show a lot of conviction but the market is unconvinced. 2021-02-11 Purchase 2021-02-11 5:37 pm Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. DNB Hipsher Bryan T. CFO 5,000 $23.3 $116,500 9,000 (Indirect Direct) View 2021-02-11 Purchase 2021-02-11 5:35 pm Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. DNB Jabbour Anthony M CEO 42,900 $23.26 $998,038 415,802 (Indirect) View 2020-11-06 Purchase 2020-11-09 07:33 am Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. DNB Jabbour Anthony M CEO 38,000 $26.31 $999,780 372,902 (Indirect) View 2020-11-06 Purchase 2020-11-09 07:31 am Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. DNB Hipsher Bryan T. CFO 4,000 $26.39 $105,560 4,000 (Indirect Direct) View 2020-07-02 Purchase … Read more

Everyone is Following Insiders Now- Too Bad there is not much to Follow Week Ending 2-5-21

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Now that everyone seemingly is glued to what insiders are doing, it struck me as ironic that they are doing very little.  Here are the notable buys from last week, in descending order of return: ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS CORP up 23.96% MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO INC up 9.74% ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP up 5.48% BROWN & BROWN Inc up 3.20% SCHWAB CHARLES CORP up 3.07% TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC up 1.81% CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP down -1.15%   Alliance Data Systems Corporation Director Gerspach bought 6000 shares of ADS at $68.46.  … Read more

Insiders buy Intel $INTC Fakeout or Fade?

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Rideshare Rental Inc. up 42.61% Allied Esports Entertainment Inc. up 25.63% STEEL PARTNERS HOLDINGS L.P. up 21.51% FUELCELL ENERGY INC up 15.40% PIMCO Dynamic Income Opportunities Fund up 1.65% INTEL CORP up 0.31% PIMCO Flexible Municipal Income Fund up 0.09% B. Riley Financial Inc. down -0.68% TEMPLETON GLOBAL INCOME FUND down 0.71% TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC down 2.47% LANDEC CORP down -2.91% Driven Brands Holdings Inc. down -5.67%   Rideshare Rental Inc. 10% owner, John Gray bought 412,040 shares at $1.54.  Not a bad week for Mr. Gray, up on paper … Read more

The Mother of All Speculative Bull Markets- Insiders still Trounce the Averages up 12.48% last Week

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For trade details click on this link to the trades It’s hard to say what the big show will be next week with the thwarted coup and Big tech turning the lights off in Trump world. I don’t suppose buying Twitter, Facebook, or even Google will be a good idea for a few days  but we are all over some names in the biotech space presenting at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference starting Monday.  It’s all virtual this year but to give you an idea of how hot a ticket it is, you have to do $150,000 in commission with … Read more

The Mother of All Speculative Bull Markets- Insiders still Trounce the Averages up 12.48% last Week

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For trade details click on this link to the trades We are witnessing the mother of all speculative bull markets. The average notable insider buy we track was up an average of 12.48% versus the healthy gain of !.83% for the S&P 500. When this will end, no one knows but it’s time to make hay while the sun shines.  Just hope you don’t lose it all and more when the party ends. Party City Holdco Inc. up 30.53% AILERON THERAPEUTICS INC up 22.73% At Home Group Inc. up 22.32% Clearside Biomedical Inc. up 21.73% WORLD ACCEPTANCE CORP up 18.80% … Read more

XMAS Week- Santa Arrived with a Stocking light on Insider Buys

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Odonate Therapeutics Inc. up 13.79% Vistra Corp. up 7.28% HENRY JACK & ASSOCIATES INC up 0.86%     It hasn’t been a good year for Odonate Therapeutics but that could be about to change. Kevin Tang was at it again, this time the CEO buying $4.18 Million of ODT at $15.15.  Incredibly enough in this charged market the stock almost immediately pushed $20 per share where we took most of the profits off the table.  Sorry but when stocks move 25% in one day on news like this and you … Read more

‘m Giving Robert Coury another Change to F*ck Me, Insider Trading Week Ending 12-18-20

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For trade details click on this link to the trades   PROGENITY Inc up 38.05%  COO Silvestry bought 58,081 shares of PROG at $4.58.  Progenity announced on December 17th  that it is expanding the availability of COVID-19 RT-PCR testing across the United States to support the rising demand for testing. Testing is performed using the Thermo Fisher Applied Biosystems TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit, under Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA. Although the stock rocketed on this news combined with insider buying, it’s been a rough haul for shareholders.  Give this one a little time to pullback. PROG recently did a … Read more

”s Who Did

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For the trade details click on this link to the trades   We all know by now or should that this is a very overextended and disconnected from reality market. Extraordinary liquidity and compassionate finance largess from the Federal Reserve keeps the rally alive. Value is hard to come by and insiders are telling you as much.  There will always be something of value to buy but the companies insiders are still buying into are increasingly obscure.           Allied Esports Entertainment up 26.17% was the standout performance-wise for the week.  Knighted Pastures LLC bought 552,862 shares … Read more

Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me-Insider Buying Week Ending 12/4/20

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For trade details click on this link to the trades   ATLAS TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS Inc up 28.91% Organogenesis Holdings Inc. up 3.04% Kraft Heinz Co up 2.71% MARAVAI LIFESCIENCES HOLDINGS Inc up 2.52% BIOGEN Inc up 1.89% American Homes 4 Rent up 1.89% HORMEL FOODS CORP up 0.87% HC2 HOLDINGS Inc down -1.15% CNX Resources Corp down-1.27% Black Knight Inc.  down -1.27% Biogen is our pick of the week.  Biogen made a fresh push to get aducanumab approved after the early read on the trials was discouring. The stock ran up significantly on the potential for the first drug to … Read more

CASI Pharmaceuticals $CASI Insider Buy of the Week

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For trade details click on this link to the trades PLx Pharma Inc. up 50.51% Party City Holdco Inc. up 22% FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC up 16.34% COTY Inc up 14.66% Pandion Therapeutics Inc. up 14.29%plxp CASI Pharmaceuticals up 12.75% StarTek Inc. UP 12.54% ZOGENIX Inc up 7.10% CHIASMA INC up 6.39% Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co Ltd. up 2.02% SAFETY INSURANCE GROUP INC up 0.39% DANAHER CORP down 4.14% Just a heads up, the Insiders Fund Not so Daily Digest will be moving to a subscription-based model in the near future.  It will always be free of course for investors in … Read more

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

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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

Insider buys were up 9.22% versus the S&P 500 up 2.16% for Week Ending November 13th

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Integer Holdings Corp up 19.94% ViewRay Inc. up 20.92% Camping World Holdings Inc. up 14.05% Magellan Midstream Partners L.P. up 12.94% Aon plc up 9.64% CALIX INC up 9.59% BlackRock Capital Investment Corp up 8.98% PARSONS CORP up 9.29% LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT CORP up 6.63% GREEN DOT CORP up 4.80% Vishay Precision Group Inc. up 5.37% ASSURANT Inc up 4.47% VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC up 3.75% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP up 3.49% Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. up 4.14% Hanesbrands Inc. up 1.73% NEW RELIC Inc up 1.02% LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORP down -0.57% … Read more

RALLY ON

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As the votes came in and the outcome of the Presidential election became clear,  investors voted with their dollars.  The market ripped 7.25% which was the largest election week rally in history.   Not even our insiders could compete with the raw animal spirits unleased by the belief that a Democratic President would be restrained by a Republican Senate.  Gridlock, strangely enough, is celebrated.  There is another narrative-perhaps it was a relief rally that the most disruptive and unpredictable President in a lifetime was gone?   Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. up 9.84% CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL Inc up 7.49% Del Taco … Read more

Brutal week in the Market- Insider Buys Outperform on Average by 600%

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Selecta Biosciences up 12.90% HomeStreet up 4.30% International Business Machines up 3.64% Raytheon Technologies ups 3.64% SMART Global Holdings up 1.54% Cytodyn up 0.16% Employers Holdings up 0.03% Kimberly Clark down 0.06% Ares Capital down 0.65% Pulte Group down -1.76% Crown Castle down -3.72% Universal Stainless & Alloy down 3.72% Agree Realty down 5.51%   Raging pandemic, fears of shutdowns, and the specter of a Presidential election fought in the courts or worse yet the streets-Guns and ammunitions are flying off the shelf.  If you’re for Trump, the market is … Read more

Massive Insider Buy in Selecta Biosciences $SLB and other Notable Buys Week Ending October 23, 2020

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Selecta Biosciences up 23.20% Carnival Corp up 9.32% Del Taco Restaurants up 8.61% CITIGROUP up -0.32%   Director Timothy Springer has been on a buying binge with Selecta Biosciences.  This past week alone, Springer purchased 1,887,696 shares at an average price of $2.30 and 3,644,692 shares at $2.62 per share.  Between these two buys he shelled out $13.89 Million.  That’s on top of the $6 million he spent the prior week buying shares between $1.77-$1.99 a piece. So he more than doubled down on this buy and paid as much … Read more

Tech Stocks Long Overdue Comeuppance – Insiders are the Ultimate Value Buyer

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Nothing like a thousand point drop in the Dow to remind you that stocks don’t go up forever.  Neither do insiders blindly chase their stock price higher.  Just the opposite. They are the ultimate “value” buyer. Tech crashed and burned last week all because an impulsive Japanese billionaire, Masayoshi Son, gambled $45 billion in call options on big tech names. At least that’s what they’d like you to believe.  According to traders, there have been mammoth options trades that include buying call options on stocks like Amazon.com Inc., Adobe Inc., Netflix Inc., Facebook Inc. Microsoft Corp, generating chatter across Wall Street.The following companies … Read more

”s about to Ignite $UPWK Upwork

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The work from home economy is as hot as a firecracker, it’s as hot as a forest fire in California, and it’s about to ignite $UPWK Upwork Upwork Director Gregory Gretsch continues to buy large dollar amounts of gig economy upstart freelancer/independent contractor model Upwork. This time he bought 547,844 shares of UPWK at $14.71.  This is one of our largest holdings. We are big fans of Upwork and use their services repeatedly. It’s a great model.  They have a couple of direct competitors, Israeli-based Fiverr, and Freelancer.com.Since neither Fivvr nor Upwork are yet profitable, conventional fundamental analysis may not be … Read more

Some Insiders are Killing it- Everything is UP- Week Ending February 7, 2020

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Wow- did you see our pick of the week, Groupon?  Groupon rocketed over 50% Friday on better than expected quarterly earnings and an enormous short squeeze. GRPN traded 13 times normal volume which makes it prime for a price reversal. I listened to the earnings call and not sure how convincing the turnaround story will be. Didn’t hear on attaboy from the handful of analysts obligatorily covering the fallen unicorn.  It’s still mind number to think they turned down $5.7 Billion from Google. I’m going to make a mental note that when Google offers me $5.7 billion for my company, … Read more

Stock Market Makes All Time High, Real Estate on Fire, and the Worst GDP in a Century

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Nice thing about math, there is not much point in debating it. The numbers are the numbers and some insider buys are much better than others. This dynamic spreadsheet will show you which ones. Here is the link to the trades- Warren Buffet bought $1.5 billion of Bank of America’s stock on the open market last week and no one is even talking about it.  It wasn’t that long ago that the news that Buffet was buying would cause of stampeded of buying by his followers.  Apple crushes 2nd quarter earnings, announces 4 for 1 stock split, it’s stock skyrockets … Read more

Bed Bath Beyond Dog Howls 17% Last Week after Insider Buy

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Here is the link to the trades- Once again Bed Bath Beyond BBBY teaches us you can make a lot of money from a bad stock if you buy it right. That’s certainly what Director Suge Gove did after the Company reported earnings, the stock cratered, and every analyst trash talked the company down.  Gove scooped up 34,000 shares at $7.89 and by weeks end was up 17%.  Not bad, Suge; I bet you wish you could sell. Insiders are subject to short swing rules that prohibit doing just that.  BBBY seems on terminal descent with Amazon, Wayfair, and now … Read more

The Willing Suspension of Disbelief- Insiders are Scarce Week Ending July 10th

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 Insiders buys were far and few in between last week. You can see them at this link to the trades- The most notable and outlandish was Harold Hamm’s monster buy of $47.6 Million of Continental Resources CLR at $17.77.  This is all the more remarkable since June, Hamm has bought $178 Million of this beleaguered oil and gas Bakken fracking pioneer.  Hamm has tons of this stock. Hamm is a big supporter of Trump who as much as he professes his love for the industry, the price of crude has cratered on his regime. Perhaps he feels oil will … Read more

Reality Check- Insider Buying Week Ending 6-26-20

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It was not a fun week for longs as Coronavirus is on the rise and insiders are blacked out before 2nd quarter earnings. I doubt that insiders were chomping on the bit to buy as the market rebound from the March lows has them unloading their holdings at a record pace. There were a few buys of interest and we highlight them here.  Until we figure out why our embedded Google sheet is not displaying in the RSS feed in our MailChimp blast, here is the link to the trades- Founder and former CEO Eric Lefkofsky bought $5.39 Million worth … Read more

Just how good are insider buying tips? See for yourself, they trounce the S&P 500

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We’ve added a new feature to our blog/newsletter about insider buying. As you know, each week we analyze the most notable buys and try to understand what they see and share this knowledge with the readers.  We don’t look at just any insider buys but ones we deem notable. A more detailed explanation of how we determine “notable” is described in detail below. Just how good are these insights?  Well now you can see for yourself.  From here on out, each week and for all of June and May we included a dynamically updated spreadsheet that tracks these highlighted insider … Read more

”t forget the Covid-19 test kit $QDEL Insider Buying Week of 6-19-20

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These are the insider buys that matter for last week. For real time insider alerts subscribe to our Twitter at https://twitter.com/theinsidersfund.  When insiders buy, stocks make knee jerk moves up. The best time period to make bank is the next three days, perhaps five and then the prior trend sets in.  Follow us on Twitter for the names we take an interest in. This week’s top movers are Camping World Holdings up 27.03% and Quidel, up 29.88% The average 3 day gain was 5.25% and holding just three days longer pushed it to 8.04%.  If there is no 5 day … Read more

What are Insiders Buying at Market Highs- Week 6-12-20?

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Fibrogen CEO Conterno bought 27,800 shares at $35.47.  After last year’s unexpected passing of founder and long-time helmsman Thomas Neff, FibroGen needed a permanent successor—and with its big roxadustat launch looming, that new CEO would ideally know the ropes in kidney and metabolic diseases. Conterno, who came from Lilly six months ago as its U.S. business chief and worldwide diabetes lead, became FibroGen’s new CEO, in January. This is his first open market purchase.  Here is a link to a  recent Goldman Sachs investor presentation According to their website, FGEN is dedicated to creating innovative, first-in-class medicines for the treatment … Read more

Riots, Protests, Pandemics and a Little Insider Buying Week Ending June 5th, 2020

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The monster purchase by Mitchell Rales of 141,20 shares of Danaher Corp DHR at $164.69 represented just 0.4% change in his holdings.  If an insider is doubling his holdings, this likely has more significance than just upping your holdings by 4/10 tenths of a percent, but this was still a monster buy and I wanted to analyze it. Danaher has made the Rales brothers billionaires and it seems they are none to eager to unload it. Not sure what to make of Director Glazer’s purchase of $1.7 Million of HCHC.  HC2 Holdings is a publicly traded investment vehicle with Philip … Read more

Quiet Insider Buying Shortened Week May 29th 2020

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Jazz Pharmaceutical Director Seamus Mulligan bought 50,000 shares at $111.08. Before investors pile in behind that enforcement, it’s worth considering Mulligan bought 50,000 shares back in 11/15/18 at $144.56. JAZZ had a few analyst downgrades after releasing last quarter’s earnings report. JAZZ is a leader in sleep medicine and has a growing hematology/oncology portfolio. Dynavax Technologies DVAX is a startup biotech.  The priced a 14M share offering at $5 below the last closing price osf $5.66. Director Jack bought 1,000,000 shares at $5. Do you think he knew that DVAX would announce a week letter that Sky would report a … Read more

Mercury General Auto Insurer Chairman Puts the Petal to the Metal

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 Mercury General Chairman George Joseph buys $9.2 Million more of this California property and casualty insurer.  MCY  with a current 6.4% dividend yield and a 34 year history of consecutive dividend raises, looks particularly tempting.  It’s off 44% from its high and the Chairman of the Board has bought $24 million worth of the company’s stock in the last 10 days. People are driving less, auto claims are down. The potential loss of reinvestment income due to lower bond rates seems overstated by this drop in price. Besides Mercury has been historically a  relatively bigger player in the equity markets, … Read more

A Few Insider Buys in some Beleaguered Stocks Week Ending May 9th 2020

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Private prison operator GEO Geo Group CEO Anthony Quinn continues to buy stock in this out of favor REIT play yielding an astounding 16.7% on Friday’s close. In the most recent 10Q the Company stated that Covid-19 pandemic adds a material concern to the financials. I think the stock reflects that with its yield. On March 24th they were rewarded  with a five year 90-100,000 participant contract with U.S. immigration services.  This $2.8 million purchase at $11.31 is the latest in large buys. He bought $1.2 Million on 3/12 at $11.65 and $8.5 million at $16.58 on 2-24-20. The stock … Read more