Insider Transactions

Alan Turner, EVP and CLO atWilliam Penn Bancorp (WMPN), recently bought 11,000 shares. The buy is an initial stake for the officer. The buy came to a total cost of just over $125,000. Company insiders have gotten active on shares in the past month. Prior to that, company insiders were largely absent from buying or selling going back to 2011. Even with that light trading, company insiders own over 26 percent of shares. The regional bank, which operates 13 locations in Pennsylvania ...
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Allen Model, a director atThe Howard Hughes Company (HHC), recently bought 4,300 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 26 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $418,000. Insiders have been active in the past year, with some major buys from Pershing Square Capital Management, but also some sales by them and some various insiders along the way. Overall, company insiders own about 3.6 percent of shares. The developer of master-planned communities has performed well in recent months, ...
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Wade Miquelon, President and CEO ofJoann (JOAN) recently bought 47,500 shares. The buy increased his stake by 87 percent, and came to a total cost just over $540,000. This is the first insider trade since the company went public in March. When that happened, a number of institutional owners and directors sold shares, but many company executives bought shares. Overall, company insiders own over 4 percent of the company. The chain of craft stores operates over 855 locations in 49 states. Revenue ...
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Cascade Investments, a major owner atRepublic Services Inc (RSG), recently bought 10,055 more shares. The buy came to just under $1 million, and increased the fund’s holdings by 0.01 percent. Cascade Investments is the fund managing the stock market investments of Bill Gates. This is the first insider buy since late 2018. Insiders have mostly been sellers since then, particularly C-suite executives. Among company insiders, less than 0.2 percent of shares are owned. Shares of the waste management company have lagged the ...
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Gary Kiedaisch, a director atPurple Innovation (PRPL) recently picked up 5,000 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 12 percent and came to a total purchase price of $150,000. That’s the first insider buy at the company since March 2020. Insiders have typically been sellers over the past year, including a multimillion share sale from a prior major owner. Insiders at the company now own just under 0.5 percent of shares. That’s too bad, as those insiders missed out on a 500 ...
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Volkswagen Group, a major holder ofQuantumScape (QS) made an additional 15.2 million share buy recently. That increased the company’s holdings by nearly 30 percent. The purchase price came to just over $100 million. The share buy occurred as the lithium-metal battery company met a technical milestone. This purchase by Volkswagen is the first insider transaction at the company. In total, all insiders at the company still retain over 30 percent of shares. Shares of QuantumScape went public last August via a special ...
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Alison Fairhead, a director atOracle (ORCL), recently bought 10,242 shares. The buy came to just under $690,000 and increased her holdings by 173 percent. Insiders are typically overwhelmingly sellers at the company, as to be expected from a big cap tech company that generously issues options to executives. Over the past three years, the only other insider buys occurred in March 2020, right at the bottom of the pandemic selloff. Thanks to the large holdings by billionaire Larry Ellison, insiders still own ...
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Julia Gouw, a director atVIZIO Holding Corp (VZIO) recently made a 35,000 share buy to start a new stake in the company. The purchase price came to $735,000. This marks the first insider buy since the company’s IPO in March. A number of other insiders, from major holders to the company COO to a director, have been selling off their stakes, even as shares have pushed higher. Shares are up about 14 percent since their IPO price. The consumer electronics goods company ...
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