Karole Lloyd, a director atAflac (AFL), recently added 1,000 shares. The buy increased her position by just under 3 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $60,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company since last July. Since then, company insiders have been sellers. And insider selling has been more prevalent than insider buying over the past three years by a substantial margin, even as shares have soared higher. Company insiders still own about 9.6 percent of shares. The supplemental insurance company is up over 4 percent in the last year, edging out ...

Kelly Ardrey, Chief Accounting Officer atWestern Alliance Bancorp (WAL), recently picked up 3,000 shares. The buy increased her stake by 97 percent, and came to a total purchase price just over $236,000. This is the first buy at the company since early March, when the CFO picked up 2,000 shares, and the Executive Chairman bought 25,000 shares at a cost of just over $1.9 million. Going further back, there have been both purchases and sales by insiders over the past three years, with sellers leading on volume in 2020 and 2021. Insiders at the bank own about 2.8 percent of shares. Th...

Celso Goncalves, CFO atCleveland-Cliffs (CLF), recently picked up 4,000 shares. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 3 percent, and came to a total price just over $105,000. The buy comes three days after another company insider, an EVP, picked up 4,500 shares, paying just over $122,000. Going back further, insiders have been regular buyers, with a few insider sales only as recently as last June. Overall, company insiders own 1.3 percent of shares. The steel producer has seen shares soar by 40 percent over the past year. Revenue is up 137 percent over the past year, and earnin...

Ruth Porat, a director atBlackstone (BX), recently added 5,000 shares. The buy increased her stake by 46 percent, and came to a total of just under $550,000. This is the third buy from the director this year. She previously bought another 5,000 shares back in February, shelling out over $630,000 at the time. Going further back, company insiders, including directors, have been inclined to be sellers of shares. Overall, insiders at the asset management giant own 0.7 percent of shares. Shares are still up 20 percent over the past year, even as the stock has lost over one-third of its...

Richard King, a director atHuntington Bancshares (HBAN), recently picked up 2,178 more shares of the company. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 3 percent, and came to a total price of just over $30,000. This is the second buy at the regional bank year-to-date. The prior buy was also from a director. Company executives have been regular sellers of shares over the past three years, with the net result of large sales by insiders overall. Overall, company insiders own about 0.9 percent of shares. Shares of the bank have dropped 11 percent in the past year, even as revenues have...

Walter Bettinger, CEO atCharles Schwab Corp (SCHW), recently picked up 36,640 shares. The buy increased his holdings by just over 12 percent, and came to a total price of just over $2.5 million. This marks the first insider buy at the company going back to February, 2021. Company insiders, from C-suite executives and the company chairman, as well as a few directors, have been sellers of shares over the past two years as the stock has more than doubled. Overall, company insiders own 6.7 percent of shares. Despite a strong two-year rally, shares are now flat over the past year with ...

Carl Icahn, a major owner ofXerox Holdings Corp (XRX), recently added 2,130,423 shares to his holdings. The buy increased his stake by 6.6 percent, and came to a total price of just over $36.3 million. This marks the first insider transaction of the year. Over the past two years, company insiders have generally been sizeable buyers of shares on a regular basis, with only one insider sale in that timeframe. Overall, company insiders, not including major owners like Icahn, own 6.5 percent of shares. The IT technology and services company has seen shares slide 30 percent over the pas...

Jay Farner, CEO atRocket Companies (RKT) continues to buy. On Friday of last week, he picked up 43,600 more shares, increasing his stake by 2.2 percent. The buy came to a total of just under $400,000. That’s on top of similarly-sized buys last Wednesday and Monday as well. The CEO has been a steady buyer since late March, and has increased his overall holdings from over 1.7 million shares to just over 2.01 million. Overall, insiders at the company own 2.8 percent of shares. Shares are now down just over 60 percent in the past year, and revenue has slid as mortgage originations and...

Jonathan Heller, a director atCBL & Associates Properties (CBL), recently bought 100,000 shares. The buy increased his position by nearly 1,200 percent. The buy came to a total cost of $3.225 million. This marks the first insider buy since last November, when a different director picked up nearly $260,000 of shares. Otherwise, company insiders have generally been sellers of shares, albeit in smaller quantities. Insiders at the company own 0.3 percent of shares. Shares of the retail REIT have performed about in-line with the overall S&P 500 since the stock exited bankruptcy...

Nicholas Schorsch, a major owner atNew York City REIT (NYC), recently added 12,500 shares. The buy increased his holdings by just under 1 percent, and came to a total price of $167,125. The move came the day after he made another buy, also for the same number of shares, paying just slightly over $162,000. Other insiders at the company have been regular buyers over the past two years. The last insider sale was modest and occurred back in 2019. Overall, insiders at the company own just under 10 percent of shares. The company, which owns a portfolio of commercial properties just in t...