Christian Brickman, President and CEO ofSally Beauty Holdings (SBH), recently added 10,000 shares to his holdings. The buy increased his total stake by 2.2 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $145,000. Over the past three years, insider buys have far exceeded insider sales. Buys have occurred by both directors and C-suite employees. The last insider sale at the company was in May 2020. Overall, insiders own 1.2 percent of the company. Shares of the firm have underperformed the stock market by 8 points in the past year. Revenue was slightly down, but earnings slightly incre...

Jochen Zeitz, President and CEO ofHarley Davidson (HOG), recently picked up 30,800 shares. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 14 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $1 million. Insiders have generally been sellers of shares two to three years ago, but in the past year, buyers have started to emerge, led in part by Zeitz. Shares of the company have rebounded from last year’s big drop, but are essentially flat over the past year. The company has also broken even in the past year, as revenue dropped by nearly one-third. While barely profitable now, expectations for an e...

Charles Ruffel, a director atCharles Schwab Corp (SCHW), recently picked up 3,636 shares. The buy increased his stake by 23 percent, and the total cost came to just over $196,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company since last July. Insiders have been overwhelming sellers of shares, dominated by Chairman Charles Schwab, who is still substantial shareholder at the company. Overall, insiders own over 7 percent of shares. The brokerage firm has performed about in line with the stock market over the past year. Thanks to higher trading volume, revenue is up over 60 percent at ...

Daniel Johnson, a director atFastenal Co (FAST) recently picked up 1,080 shares of the company. The buy increased his holdings by over 14 percent, and came to a total price of just over $50,000. Director Stephen Eastman was also a recent buyer, with a 1,000-share pickup in late January. Overall, insiders are both active buyers and sellers, with C-suite executives cashing out of stock options while directors keep buying. The directors are doing a better job, as shares of the company are in an uptrend and have performed 10 points better than the S&P 500 on average over the past yea...

Joseph Whitters, a director atAccuray (ARAY) recently picked up 20,000 shares. The buy increased his holdings by over 7 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $100,000. Whitters last bought 50,000 shares in November, at a price about 50 percent lower than where shares currently trade. Insiders have generally been sellers of shares at the company over the past three years. Overall, insiders own 3.4 percent of the company. Accuray designs and develops healthcare equipment including therapy systems, robotic radiosurgery systems, and other technologies. Shares have performed well...

Kevin Stephens, a director atCrown Castle International (CCI) recently picked up 2,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by nearly 96 percent, and came to a total cost of $328,000. This is the first insider buy of 2021. Insiders were both buyers and sellers in 2020, with directors picking up shares as C-suite executives generally being sellers at the firm. Overall, in the past few years, insider sales have exceeded insider buys. Despite the general sales of insiders, the company’s stock-based compensation explains most of those sales. And the cell tower firm looks like an attractiv...

Robert Mehrabian, Executive Chairman ofTeledyne Technologies (TDY), recently bought 10,000 shares. The purchase increased his holdings by 6.3 percent, and came to a total cost of $3.66 million. This marks the first insider buy at the company in over three years. Insiders have generally been sellers of shares on a regular and ongoing basis, as is typical of a technology company. The insider sales include both directors and C-suite executives. Overall, insides own just 1.5 percent of company shares. Shares have traded flat over the past year, as revenue has declined 3 percent, but earn...

William Davis, Chairman of the Board atNorwood Financial Corp (NWFL), recently picked up 1,800 shares. The buy increased his stake in the regional bank by nearly 4 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $45,000. This marks the first insider buy of the year. However, a number of company directors were active buyers late last year. A number of C-suite executives have been mild sellers in the past year as well. Overall, insiders own 4.5 percent of the company. Shares of the regional bank are down 26 percent over the past year. That’s in spite of double-digit earnings a...

Robert Swan, CEO ofIntel (INTC), recently picked up 27,544 shares. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 6 percent. The total cost of the buy came to just over $1.5 million. This marks the first buy at the company since October, also by Swan. Insiders have generally been steady sellers of shares over the past few years, as befits the stock-based compensation of a large company in the tech space. Shares of Intel are down 20 percent over the past year, far underperforming the stock market as a whole, as well as the semiconductor sector. With shares moving higher in recent months, th...

Jason Few, CEO ofFuelCell Energy (FCEL), recently added 11,000 shares to his holdings. The buy increased his stake by 98 percent, and the total buy came to just under $200,000. This marks the first insider transaction since late 2018. Insiders have exclusively been buyers of shares looking at data going back to 2013, paying as much as 4 times more than the current price of shares. Insiders own just under 4 percent of shares. Shares of the stationary fuel power generations company are up over 1,100 percent in the past year, following years of declines from a 2014 high of over $300 per...