Insider Buying Week 08-08-25-Insiders are Shopping Pharma and Biotech

Insider buying picked up some this week. There are notable big names stocks that I can honestly say insiders are swinging the bat at but can you or I get excited about their prospects when the entire investing world revolves around AI and the enormous energy resources it will demand.  None the less we stick to our knitting, our discipline and write up this report even if we are not buying just yet.  But read on, you never know. It’s usually where the crowd is not looking, that the biggest returns are found. The bloodbath continues unabated in pharma and … Read more

Insider Buying week 8-27-21

For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  I had a dream Friday morning about the stock market. I yelled out in my sleep, “everything is going up.” I woke up and it pretty much did exactly that. In a good market, almost all trades bounce sharply but the stickiness and real progress from there are what you have to measure. Perhaps deduct 4 or 5 percent from all the posted returns to determine your likely return as getting them at the same price or lower than the insider’s purchase cost is difficult to do since they almost … Read more

Insider Buying Picks Up Dramatically Week 8-06-21

For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  Name Sachs Bruce I Position: Director Shares Bought: 15,000 Average Price Paid: $197.91, Cost: $2,968,650 Company: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX) Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. The company has multiple approved medicines that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) – a rare, life-threatening genetic disease – and has several ongoing clinical and research programs in CF. Beyond CF, Vertex has a robust pipeline of investigational small molecule medicines in other serious diseases where it has … Read more

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

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

Top stocks insiders are unloading week ending Aug 4th

Vertex Pharmaceuticals [VRTX] insiders unload stock at a record clip, printing new shares and exercising them on average 7 years before they expire. That’s $96.8 million last week alone. Hasbro [HAS] insiders unload $88.5 million of shares last week.  Unlikely there are any Transforming toys or movies on the horizon. Intrawest Resorts Holdings [SNOW] C- Level officers take advantage of recent lofty stock price to unthaw some of their holdings.  $3.1 million. Wayfair [W] management can’t sell fast enough, 9 different insiders unload $42 million worth of stock. Earnings are Monday. We’re short a small amount of this high flying … Read more