Insider Transactions

Mithaq Capital, a major holder ofSoftware Acquisition Group II (SAII), recently bought 369,924 shares. The buy increased the fund’s stake by 4 percent, and came to a total purchase price of $3.89 million. This adds on to other buys from the fund since SAII went public as a SPAC offering last month. A SPAC is a special purpose acquisition company that raises capital to buy a business outright. SPACs typically go public around $10 per share. Their price varies depending on a ...
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John Childs, a director atBiohaven Pharmaceutical (BHVN), recently made a 13,157 share buy. The purchase came to just under $1 million even, and increased the director’s stake by just over 0.5 percent. That’s the second buy from Childs this month following a 10,000 share buy earlier. Insiders have been both buyers and sellers in the past year, with sellers leading on total shares. Overall, insiders own nearly 14 percent of the company. A biotech firm targeting neurological diseases, the company has a ...
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Suzanne Coulter, a director atAbercrombie & Fitch (ANF) recently started a stake at the company with 2,170 shares. The total cost of the share buy came to just over $75,000. This marks the first buy from insiders since March 2020. Overall, insider sales have beaten out buyers over the past three years, but there was a large sale by a company insider back in January. Shares have since risen by 43 percent. Insiders own about 2.2 percent of company shares. Shares are up ...
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Paula Reynolds, a director atGeneral Electric (GE), recently added another 5,000 shares to her stake. That increased her holdings by nearly 20 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just over $62,000. This marks the first insider buy since last August, when a number of directors and C-suite executives bought shares at a price nearly 50 percent lower than where shares trade today. However, these buys have been dwarfed by sales from a fund that’s also a major holder. Overall, ...
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Martin Landis, a director atCrown Castle International (CCI), recently picked up 1,180 shares. The buy increased his stake by less than 1 percent, and came to a total cost of just under $190,000. Landis has been a repeat buyer in recent months, although other company insiders have been sellers. Overall, company insiders have been bigger sellers as the share price has continued higher, relatively unaffected by the pandemic. Overall, insiders own 0.4 percent of company shares. The REIT, which offers cell tower ...
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Jennifer Weber, a senior vice president atArcher Daniels Midland (ADM), recently picked up 5,905 shares. The buy increased her stake by nearly 8 percent, and came to a total purchase price of just under $298,000. This marks the first insider buy since last September. Insiders are typically sellers of shares, even as prices of the agricultural giant have been trending higher. Overall, insiders own just under 0.4 percent of the company. Concerns of food supply disruption and inflation have led to a ...
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Gordon Crawford, a director atLions Gate Entertainment (LGF-B), recently picked up 100,000 shares. The total cost of the buy came to just under $1.6 million, and increased the director’s stake by over 62 percent. This marks the first insider buy of the year. Insiders have been active buyers in the past 18 months, but before that were more likely to be sellers, at a far higher price than where shares trade today. Overall, insiders own just over 2 percent of shares. Shares are ...
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Randall Stephenson, a director atWalmart (WMT), recently picked up 7,725 shares. The buy came to a total purchase price of $1.2 million, and increased the director’s holdings by over 1,300 percent. This is the first insider buy in over three years. Insiders, typically members of the Walton family but also some executives, have exclusively been sellers in the past three years. Even with the large, regular sales by company insiders, they still own over 51 percent of shares. Shares of the big ...
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