Insider Transactions

Elio Sceti, a director at The Kraft Heinz Co (KHC), recently picked up 90,000 shares. The buy is an initial stake in the firm, and the total purchase price of shares came out to $2.98 million. Insiders have a mixed trading record at the company, as 3G Global Food Holdings makes regular sales of millions of shares each year to reduce their stake. However, directors have been large buyers of shares overall in the past few years as well. The packaged food ...
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Steven Lykken, a Senior Vice President at Hormel Foods Corp (HRL), recently bought 6,873 shares. The buy increased his stake by over 25 percent, and came to a total cost of $322,000. This is the second buy from insiders in as many months, following a small sale by a Group Vice President in November. Generally, insiders have been nearly exclusively sellers of shares over the past three years. Insiders currently own over 47 percent of shares, however, so the relatively large and ...
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Christian Winkle, a director at Beazer Homes (BZH), recently bought 3,775 more shares. That increased his stake by over 13 percent, and came to a price just over $55,000. This follows two buys that he made in the prior two months. While this director has been buying, C-suite executives have been sellers of shares this year. And one director sold a massive stake back in March, when the share price was less than half of what shares go for today. While company ...
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Thomas Aaron, a director at Cincinnati Financial (CINF), recently bought 2,500 shares of the company. The buy increased his stake by 115 percent, and the price paid came in just under $200,000. This follow on two insider buys in early November from another director. Directors have been accumulating shares throughout the year, even as one C-suite executive made a large sale of shares. Over the past few years, insider buys have outnumbered sales. Overall, insiders own 6.8 percent of shares. A property ...
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James Meyer, President and CEO of FreightCar America (RAIL), recently added 27,500 shares. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 15 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $58,000. The buy follows on a 5,500 share buy from a director just two days before. Insiders have been buyers of shares over the past three years with no sales. The last insider buys before these two occurred in early 2019, at prices as much as 55 percent higher. A designer ...
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Vesa Equity Investment, a major holder in Foot Locker (FL), recently added to their stake. The fund bought 509,575 shares of the company, increasing their holdings by 4.75 percent. The purchase price for the stake came to just under $19.7 million. While the fund has been buying, company insiders have generally been sellers over the past few years. Sales have occurred at prices as much as 37 percent higher than where shares currently trade. Overall, insiders own 11.6 percent of outstanding shares. The ...
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Sardar Biglari, Chairman and CEO of Biglari Holdings (BH), recently bought 23,613 additional shares. The buy increased his holdings by just under 2 percent. The buy totaled just under $2.6 million. Biglari has been a buyer of shares over the past year at prices as much as 30 percent below where shares trade today. Other insiders have also picked up smaller stakes. There have been no insider sales in the last three years. Biglari Holdings is a conglomerate that owns a number ...
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Johannes Huth, a director at Coty Inc. (COTY), recently bought one million shares of the company. The total price came to $6.2 million, and represents the director’s first stake at the cosmetics firm. Hurth is joined by director Robert Singer, who also picked up 15,000 shares on the same day. His buy came to over $90,000, and represents a 4.7 percent increase in his holdings. This is the second buy from Singer in as many weeks. Insider activity over the past few ...
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