Insider Transactions

Michael Kennedy, a director at Old Republic International (ORI), recently bought 1,494 shares. The buy represented an initial stake in the company. The purchase came to a total cost of just over $26,000. Insiders have been buyers for months in relatively small amounts. Last month saw two directors buy a total of 2,200 shares. The last insider sale was in the autumn of 2019, at far higher prices than today. Shares of the insurance company sold off heavily earlier in the year ...
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SRS Investment Management bought 104,900 more shares of Avis Budget Group (CAR) recently. The buy upped the fund’s stake by a mere 0.6 percent despite a cost of $3.6 million. That’s thanks to the fund’s 18.3 million share stake in the car rental firm. This is the fund’s third buy so far this month. The fund has been an active buyer all year, at prices as much as 40 percent lower than where shares currently trade. A number of insiders have also ...
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Michael LaPlante, Chief Accounting Officer at Bryn Mawr Bank (BMTC) recently picked up 1,500 shares. That represented his initial purchase of company shares. The buy came to just over $45,000. This follows on a buy the day before from the company CFO, who picked up 3,000 shares. That increased his stake to over 18,230 shares, and came to a price of just over $91,000. Insider data shows that insiders have only been buyers in the past year. Bryn Mawr bank is a ...
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Christian Winkle, a director at Beazer Homes (BZH), recently bought 5,950 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 32 percent, and came to a total cost just over $82,000. This marks the first buy from insiders this year. The last insider buys occurred in 2019. Insiders have been large sellers of shares this year, including a large sale by a director in March when prices were near their panic lows. Strong home price and sales trends have allowed the homemaker to nearly ...
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Carol Foster, a director at Hercules Capital (HTGC) recently bought 3,850 shares. The buy increased her holdings by 30 percent, and came to a cost of just over $50,000. This is the first insider transaction of 2020, and the first insider buy since 2015. Foster previously sold some shares last year at a price near where the stock trades today. Hercules is an investor in early-stage companies, typically with a focus on new technologies. The company is structured as a business development ...
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Christian Brickman, President and CEO of Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH), remelt added 11,350 shares to his holdings. The purchase price came to just over $124,000 and increased his total stake by 2.5 percent. This follows a 10,000 share buy from the CEO in August, around the same time a director picked up shares as well. Insiders have been active throughout the year, with insider buys handily beating insider sales at the company. Shares of the cosmetics firm remain down 40 percent over ...
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SRS Investment Management, a major holder at Avis Budget Group (CAR), added to their stake with a 149,796 share buy. The purchase increased the fund’s stake in the company by 0.8 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $5.36 million. This marks the fund’s first purchase in over two months. Besides being a regular buyer throughout the past few months, a number of directors bought shares in March. Shares of the car rental firm tanked during the pandemic lockdowns, ...
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Gordon Crawford, a director at Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF.B), recently bought 200,000 shares of the company. The buy increased his holdings by 330 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $1.66 million. Insider data shows that company insiders have largely been buyers over the past two years, with only one insider buy back in 2019. Crawford in particular has been the company’s sole insider buyer of shares in 2020. All told, insiders own just over 2 percent of ...
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