John Watters, President and COO atFireEye (FEYE), recently picked up 40,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by over 14.4 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $680,000. This follows up on a 10,000 share buy from Watters earlier this month. Insiders have been active buyers since June of this year, including a director and a company EVP. Going further back, however, insiders have generally been sellers. Overall, company insiders own about 2.1 percent of company shares. Shares of the cybersecurity company are up about 18 percent in the past year, underperformin...

Michael Kennedy, a director atOld Republic International (ORI), recently bought 1,024 shares. The buy increased his holdings by over 26 percent, and came to a purchase price of just under $27,000. This is the second insider buy of the month, as another director picked up 250 shares on August 11. Overall, insiders are active as both buyers and sellers, although one director is leading insider buys with regular small purchases. Overall, company insiders own 7.3 percent of shares. The insurance company has had a strong return over the past year, with shares up 61 percent. The company...

JAB Holdings, a major holder atKrispy Kreme (DNUT), recently added 234,748 more shares to their holdings. The buy increased the company’s stake by 0.35 percent, and came to a total purchase price just over $3.37 million. This buy follows up on a number of insider buys back in July, including a 294,118 share buy from the company’s chairman of the board. Overall, company insiders own nearly 45 percent of company shares. There have also been no insider sales since the firm went public on July 1 of this year. The donut chain has seen shares drop about 29 percent since the company went...

Christopher Lapointe, CFO atSoFi Technologies (SOFI), recently bought 3,500 shares. The stake increased his position by 1.3 percent, and came to a total valuation of about $49,000. That follows on two buys from the company CEO earlier last week, who bought 14,300 shares in total at a price of about $200,000 in total. These three buys constitute all the insider activity since the company went public on June 1. Overall, company insiders own about 26 percent of shares. The financial services platform has returned about 16 percent since going public. As an early-stage company, the fir...

Alan LeFevre, a director atHerbalife Nutrition (HLF), recently bought 3,000 additional shares. The buy increased his stake by over 19 percent, and came to a total cost of just under $145,0000. This follows up on two other insider buys earlier in the month, when the company CFO bought 425 shares at a cost of over $20,000, and the company CEO bought 5,200 shares at a price of about $250,000. Prior to that, insiders have largely been sellers over the past three years. Overall, company insiders own about 11.5 percent of company shares. The health supplement company has seen share rise...

Bryant Riley, Chairman atB. Riley Financial (RILY), recently bought 15,000 more shares. That buy increased his stake by about 0.25 percent, and came to a total price of just over $953,000. That was the most recent of his four total buys (so far) this month. He was joined by the company’s CEO, Andrew Moore, who picked up 5,000 shares. That buy increased his stake by 2.2 percent, and came to a total price of just over $318,000. Overall, company insiders own a staggering 42.6 percent of company shares. The financial conglomerate has seen shares rally a staggering 147 percent in the p...

John Holder, a director atGenuine Parts Company (GPC), recently picked up 2,000 more shares. That increased his stake at the company by nearly 13 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $250,000. This is the first insider buy of the year, and the third made by Holder in the past year. Insiders have generally been small buyers of shares overall, with the last insider sale occurring in 2019. Overall, company insiders own nearly 3 percent of shares. The automotive supply store chain has performed about in line with the overall S&P 500 over the past year. Thanks ...

Cathie Wood of ARK Investments, a major holder inPalantir Technologies (PLTR), picked up more shares of the company after its earnings report last week. The total buys across a number of funds came to nearly $140 million, or 5.2 million shares. That contrasts some modest sales made by ARK in late June. Overall, institutions like ARK Investments own just 25 percent of shares, and company insiders themselves own about 12.8 percent of company shares. The data analytics company just reported that is revenue rose 49 percent year-over-year, and raised its full-year cash flow outlook to ove...

Donna Zarcone, a director atCigna Corp (CI) recently picked up 1,000 shares. The buy increased her stake by nearly 4 percent, and came at a total cost of just under $211,000. This is the first insider buy at the healthcare plan company in nearly a year, following a buy last September from the company CFO. Overall, insiders have been hefty sellers of shares, even as the price has continued to climb higher. Insiders own about 1.5 percent of all company shares. The healthcare plan firm has been a relative underperformer as other parts of the healthcare space have better benefitted from ...

RA Walker, a director atConocoPhillips (COP) recently bought 22,500 shares. The stake represents an initial buy for the director, and came to a total cost of just under $1.5 million. This marks the second insider buy since May at the company. As with many large cap companies, a number of insiders are also sellers, although the total insider activity has been rather small overall over the past two years. Overall, company insiders own just 0.1 percent of company shares. The stock is up slightly more than the S&P 500 over the past 52 weeks, thanks to a strong rebound in oil prices. ...