Bruce Strhom, a director atSmartRent (SMRT), recently picked up 10,000 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 50 percent, and came to a total purchase price of $110,000. This is the director’s third buy in the past three months. The prior two buys were also for 10,000 shares each, albeit at slightly higher prices. These three buys mark the only insider activity since the company went public earlier in the year. Overall, insiders at the company own over 41 percent of outstanding shares. The company is an early-stage technology company blending smart home technology for the renta...

Jay Henderson, a director atIllinois Tool Works (ITW) recently bought 10,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by over 112 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $2.35 million. This marks the first insider buy at the company since May 2020. Otherwise, company insiders, mostly executives, have been steady sellers of shares over the past few years. That’s true even as shares have trended higher over time. Overall, insiders at the company own 0.2 percent of shares. The industrial toolmaker has been a steady performer, although shares have underperformed the S&...

Edie Ames, a director atCheesecake Factory (CAKE) recently added 1,650 shares. The buy increased her stake by 25.6 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $75,000. This is the second buy from the same director this year, following a 500 share buy back in August. Otherwise, insiders have largely been sellers over the past year, with company executives selling off shares. Overall, insiders at the company own 6.8 percent of shares. Shares of the restaurant chain are up 21 percent over the past year, although the stock price peaked in May. However, shares have flatte...

Gerald Volas, a director atThe Scotts Miracle Grow Company (SMG), recently bought 6,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by 1,376 percent, and came to a total price of just under $1.03 million. This marks the first insider buy of the past three years. Over the past three years, company insiders from major owners to directors to executives have been exclusive sellers of shares. Company insiders of the consumer lawn and garden products company own 28 percent of shares. The stock is now trading flat over the past year, after shedding nearly one-third of its value in recent weeks, ...

Gustavo Arnal, CFO ofBed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), recently bought 12,500 shares. The buy increased his stake by just over 4 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $255,000. That buy came just a few days after two different directors bought shares. One picked up 12,500 shares, paying nearly $250,000, and another bought 25,000 shares across two days. The last insider sales occurred back in July, when shares were trading more than 30 percent higher than their current price. Overall, company insiders own 1.6 percent of shares. The retail chain’s shares are up about ...

Lee Fenton, CEO ofBally’s Corporation (BALY), recently bought 5,750 shares of company stock. The buy increased his stake by almost 2.5 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $259,000. He was joined by two division presidents as well as a president of retail, who all bought on the same date at slightly different prices. All told, this cluster of insiders bought nearly $850,000 in company shares. This marks a sharp reversal from the past three years, where insiders have generally been sellers, although in smaller amounts of shares. Overall, insiders own 39.2 percent ...

Wayne Thomas Smith, a director atAir Products & Chemicals (APD) recently bought 1,637 shares. The buy created an initial stake, and came to a total purchase price of just over $500,000. This is the first insider activity at the company since January 2020. Over the past 3 years, insiders have been more active as both buyers and sellers, with buyers outnumbering sellers in total share transactions. Overall, insiders own 0.3 percent of company shares. This latest buy has occurred as shares have just rallied to breakeven over the past year, following a prolonged sideways trading patt...

Michael Angelakis, a director atExxonMobil (XOM) recently picked up 5,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by 15 percent, and came to a total purchase price of $320,000. This marks the first insider transaction since March, when this director and another director also bought a collective 202,000 shares. The price of the stock has since risen since then. The last insider sales occurred in December 2020, with shares up nearly 50 percent since then. Overall, insiders own just 0.11 percent of shares. Insider buying in mega-cap companies like ExxonMobil have been rare in the past few m...

Jason Karp, Chief Counsel atQumu Corporation (QUMU), recently picked up 10,000 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 80 percent, and came to a total price of just over $20,000. The buy comes one day after a 5,000 share buy from a director totaling $10,600. Throughout the past year, a number of insiders and directors have been buyers, with only one sale from the company CFO back in early September. Overall, insiders own just over 5 percent of the company. Shares of the video content measurement service are down nearly 60 percent in the past year, as the company has been unprofi...

Harald von Heynitz, a director atFluence Energy (FLNC) recently added 1,000 shares. That represents an initial stake for the director, and came to a total cost of $28,000. He was joined by director Herman Bulls, who picked up 10,000 shares, paying $280,000 to do so. That was also an initial buy. The company is a subsidiary of German conglomerate Siemens, and shares went public on October 28, so more insider buys may be in store in the weeks to come. Full data on insider ownership is not yet available, but funds only own about 37 percent of shares. The energy storage company’s shares ...