Richard Lenny, a director atConagra Brands (CAG), recently picked up 10,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by just over 10 percent, and came to a total cost of $337,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company in a year. Insiders have generally been sellers of shares, mostly at the C-suite level. The company’s general counsel has been the most active seller of shares here. Over the past year, shares have traded flat at the food processing giant, even as earnings have risen 45 percent and revenue has risen 6 percent. Trading at 15 times earnings, and with shares down over...

Pershing Square Capital Management, a major holder and director atThe Howard Hughes Group (HHC) recently made an addition to its stake with a 2,516,846 share buy. The total price tag came to just under $200 million, and increased the fund’s holdings by nearly 23 percent. This follows up on the fund’s initial 10 million share buy back in March. Shares are up 62 percent since then. Company insiders, including both directors and C-suite executives, have mostly been buyers, with a few sales in the past year as well. The owner of a number of commercial, residential and hospitality prop...

Clifford Sosin, a major owner ofAt Home Group (HOME), recently picked up nearly 370,000 shares in transactions over two different days. The buys came to a total just under $6 million, and increases his holdings to just over 10.8 million shares. This marks the first buy at the home décor retailer chain since November. Insiders have otherwise been shares, including massive sales from another 10 percent owner and C-suite executives. The company, which is not yet profitable, has seen shares rally 253 percent in the past year and more than double that off of its March lows. Stay-at-home t...

Vesa Equity Investment, a major holder inFoot Locker (FL), recently bought another 8,581 shares Coming at a total cost of $334,000, the buy increased the fund’s holdings by 0.07 percent. The fund has been a sizeable buyer over the past two months, picking up nearly 2 million shares in that timeframe, at prices as much as 15 percent below where shares currently trade. Corporate executives have generally been sellers of shares in the past year. Overall, insiders own over 13 percent of shares. The athletic apparel retailer has seen shares perform about in-line with the market over the p...

Augusta Investments, a major holder inBullfrog Gold Corp (BFGC), recently added 6.5 million shares to their holdings. This represents a 6 percent increase. The fund paid about $1.5 million in total to add to this position. This marks the first insider trade in nearly two years. A company director bought 1.5 million shares of the company in early 2019, and insiders have been more active in 2018 and 2017. There have been no insider sales in the last three years. Overall, insiders own 61 percent of the company, an impressive stake and a sign that the gold miner has true potential to con...

Blackstone Holdings, a major owner ofCheniere Energy (CQP), recently added to their stake with a 73,359 share buy. The total price came to just under $2.5 million, and represents a nearly 19 percent increase in the fund’s stake of the liquefied natural gas company. Blackstone has been a buyer through a number of various legal entities in the past year. One director has sold shares in the past year. Overall, insiders own just over 49.5 percent of the firm. Shares of the firm are still down about 15 percent in the past year. Despite a 33 percent drop in revenue, liquefied natural ga...

Ronald Sargent, a director at grocery chainThe Kroger Company (KR), recently bought 3,200 shares. The buy increased his holdings by just under 3 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $101,000. This buy marked the only time a company insider bought shares in 2020. Insiders were generally sellers, with the last insider buy occurring in July 2019. Shares of the chain had a strong year as the grocer benefited from pandemic-related shopping trends. Shares of the grocery chain saw a 10 percent rise in the past year, amid a 6 percent increase in revenue and a 140 percent increase i...

Russell Ellett, a director atAtlantic Union Bankshares Corp (AUB), has made multiple buys in the past few weeks. On December 29th, he bought 3,000 shares, paying just over $98,000. That follows on a similar 3,000 share buy on the 23rd that cost just over $96,000. It’s the first insider buy at the bank since mid-2018. A number of directors and C-suite executives have been sellers, largely in 2020 at lower prices. Shares of the regional bank, headquartered in Virginia, dropped 14 percent in the past year. That’s an underperformance of the S&P 500 by nearly 30 percent. While revenue...

Michael Berry, an Executive Vice President of Finance atNetApp (NTAP), recently bought 15,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by 66 percent. The total cost of the buy came to just over $958,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company in 2020, and the first buy in the last three years. There have been a number of sales, some from directors, with some smaller sells from some C-suite executives. Overall, insiders own just 0.3 percent of outstanding shares of the cloud service and hardware firm. Shares of the company are up 3 percent in the past year, underperforming the ove...

John Danhakl, a director atIQVIA Holdings (IQV), recently started a stake at the company with 63,451 shares. The total cost of the buy came to just over $11.2 million. This marks the first buy from a company insider since August. Over the past three years, company insiders have largely been sellers. In 2020, those sales have largely been by major owners and directors, rather than C-suite executives. The healthcare life sciences and diagnostics company has seen shares move about in-line with the stock market over the past year, with a gain of about 15 percent. Its revenues have been f...