Insider Transactions

Eric Palmer, the Chief Financial Officer at Cigna (CI), recently picked up 1,000 shares. The buy cost just over $168,000, and leaves the CFO with over 26,800 shares, a 3 percent increase. As a large, publicly-traded company, there are a number of both buys and sells over the past year, with sellers far outweighing buyers. This is the second insider buy since June. Generally, a CFO buy is a solid sign. As the company’s main expert on finances, a CFO tends to ...
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Henry Samueli, a director at Broadcom (AVGO), recently picked up 101,740 shares. The buy increased his stake by about 1 percent but came to a whopping $36.7 million thanks to the company’s high share price. This is the second insider buy this month following the 167 share buy from director Raul Fernandez, a purchase that came to over $60,000. Insiders have mostly been sellers this year. Shares of the semiconductor company are up about 30 percent in the past year. The company ...
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Albert Monaco, a director at timberland owner and operator Weyerhaeuser (WY), recently picked up 10,000 shares. The overall stake cost just over $291,000, and more than doubled the director’s stake. This marks the first director buy since March. Over the past year, there have been a number of both buys and sells at the company by C-suite executives as well as company directors. Shares of the company have traded slightly down over the past year. Revenue and earnings are slightly down, but ...
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Olivier Le Peuch, CEO at Schlumberger (SLB), recently added to his stake with a 25,000 share buy. That brings his total holdings by 15 percent to over 191,700 shares. The total purchase came to just over $448,000. The buy comes as the oil and gas service and equipment supplier faces challenging times. With oil demand and prices down over the past year, the share price has slid by nearly half. What’s more, revenues have dropped by over a third. The company recently ...
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Louis Vachon, a director at Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), recently added to his stake with a 3,000 share buy. That brings his total holdings to over 26,400 shares for a 13 percent increase. The total buy came to just over $105,000. With the stock market in selloff mode, a holding in the beverage space is a great defensive sector to be in, so it’s no surprise that directors are buying now. That said, it’s really the valuation right now that makes things ...
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There are different ways to classify the “most bought.” It could be the number of shares, the number of insiders, the number of buy transactions, and the dollar value of the buying. In this circumstance, it comes down to the number of shares being purchased with a minimum of two transactions. Between June 1 and June 5, RCM Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: RCMT) saw insiders buy 1.1 million shares for a total value of $1.32 million in two separate transactions. RCMT is ...
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  American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) is an Agoura Hills, CA residential REIT that is the leader in the single-family home rental industry. They acquire, develop, renovate, lease and operate single-family homes as rental properties. AMH announced their earnings on February 27, 2020. The initial reaction was to move lower but finished higher on the session and then retested it’s prior high near $30 within a few days. The price has retreated slightly from its high and looks poised to retest it ...
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President & CEO adds to stake. Christian Brickman, President and CEO at Sally Beauty Holdings (SBH), recently bought 7,650 shares. The buy cost just under $95,000, and increased his shares by 1.8 percent. This marks the second insider buy at the company this year, following a director buy of 9,000 shares earlier in the month. Insider activity at the company over the past three years shows large numbers of insider buys on a regular basis, as well as the occasional small insider sale. Shares ...
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