Neil Gagnon, a major holder atSecureWorks Corp (SCWX), recently bought 6,725 shares. The buy increased his holdings by less than 1 percent, and came to a total cost of $45,967. Gagnon has been a regular and steady buyer of shares going back to June 2022. Going further back, several company insiders have also been buyers, including the company CEO and CFO. The last insider sale came from a fund that was a major holder in late 2021. Overall, insiders own 30.5 percent of SecureWorks shares. Shares of the cybersecurity company are down nearly a third over the past year, and the compan...

Jane Elfers, President and CEO atThe Children’s Place (PLCE), recently bought 43,000 shares. The buy increased her stake by 13 percent, and came to a total cost of $1.01 million. The buy came a week after a director bought 1,500 shares, paying $57,750. Over the past two years, insider activity has been a bit more mixed, with more sales than purchases. Elfers was a big seller of shares two years ago when shares traded 4 times higher. Overall, company insiders own 6.3 percent of shares. Shares of the children’s apparel company are down about one third over the past year, but have ne...

Raghavendran Sivaraman, a portfolio manager atTri-Continental (TY), recently added 3,000 shares. The buy represents an initial stake for the manager, and came out to a total cost of $81,211. This is the first insider activity at the company since March 2022, when another portfolio manger bought 2,000 shares, also a first-time stake. There have been no other buys, nor any insider sales, over the past two years. Overall, insiders own about 1 percent of the company. The asset management company has traded flat over the past year, and has managed to have lower volatility than its peer...

Patrick Driscoll, an EVP atWalgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), recently bought 5,172 shares. The buy increased his stake by 10 percent, and came to a total cost of $146,984. That’s the first insider activity since March, when the company CEO bought 10,000 shares, at a price of $339,510. Otherwise, a company director sold shares last year and another vice president exercised a stock option. In total, company insiders own about 17.2 percent of the drugstore chain. Shares have been trending lower this year, with the stock down by about one-third of its value. While WBA has been losing mo...

Reuben Leibowitz, a director atSimon Property Group (SPG), recently added 536 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 1 percent, and came to a total cost of $61,100. He was among 11 company directors who picked up shares in the past week, and bought the largest amount. The smallest amount for a mere 28 shares valued at $3,252. All directors increased their stake by 1-2 percent. They also made the same move at the end of March. There have been no insider sales over the past two years. Overall, company insiders own 0.9 percent of shares. The retail real estate investment trust (RE...

White Mountains Insurance Group, a major holder ofMediaAlpha (MAX) has acquired an additional 5,916,816 shares. The buy came to over $35 million, and is a 35 percent increase in the insurance company’s position in shares. This marks the first insider buy this year. Some company insiders have been sellers of shares this year, mostly in February at a higher price than where the stock trades today. Overall, company insiders own about 6.7 percent of shares, and institutions such as White Mountain own 92 percent of shares. The insurance industry customer acquisition company is down ove...

William Shepard, a director atCME Group (CME), recently bought 322 shares. The buy came to a total cost just under $58,000, and the buy increased the director’s stake by less than 1 percent. The director has been a regular buyer since last November, with no insider sales in that time. This is his sixth purchase. The last purchase occurred in March, and came to just under $94,000. Insiders were largely sellers before then. Overall, company insiders own 0.5 percent of shares. The stock exchange company is down by over 10 percent in the past year. Last year’s stock trading activity d...

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), a major holder ofOccidental Petroleum (OXY), continues to accumulate shares. Last week saw a 2,137,250 share buy, valued at $122.1 million. That’s the first buy in nearly a month, following multiple buys in May. Berkshire, run by Warren Buffett, now owns over 25 percent of the oil company, and has permission from regulators to buy up to 50 percent of shares. Company insiders own 0.2 percent of shares, and institutions like Berkshire own over 82 percent of the company. Occidental shares are about flat over the past year. That’s underperformed the S&P 500...

Brian Derksen, a director atOneok (OKE), recently bought 4,900 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 36 percent, and came to a total cost just under $292,000. This marks the first buy at the company in over a year, when Oneok’s President and CEO bought 8,975 shares, paying about $1 million to do so. One company director sold shares last year, otherwise company insiders have been fairly inactive over the past three years Overall, company insiders own 0.5 percent of shares. The oil and gas midstream company is up about 10 percent over the past year, up about two-thirds that of t...

David Dobson, a director atJohn Wiley & Sons (WLY), recently bought 3,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by 61 percent, and came to a total cost just under $95,000. This marks the first insider buy since 2021. Otherwise, company executives have been sellers of shares, largely last year, with two sales so far this year. One sale came to just under $1,000,000, at a time when shares traded nearly twice as high as today. Overall, company insiders own 9.0 percent of shares. The publisher has seen shares drop by about one-third over the past year. While earnings jumped nearly 6...