11 Insider Trades To Keep An Eye On

Hedge fund and insider trading are two types of sentiment that offer market-beating potential.

Insider buying activity has been shown to generate annual outperformance of about 7 percentage points, according to multiple empirical studies. With that being said, hedge fund data can be seen by following the link, and we’ll take you through a few of the most important insider buys of the past couple weeks below.

Repros Therapeutics

Repros Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:RPRX) CFO Katherine Anderson bought 1,000 shares of the reproductive health company at a price of $23.77 each. The move came amid safety and efficacy results for Androxal, a drug design to increase testosterone in men, which in essence, preserves fertility. Since Anderson’s move, shares of Repros have risen by 5% and if analysts’ expectations regarding Androxal are correct, the stock has further upside. With clinical development costs representing a major portion of Repros’ expenditures, the company is tied to the drug’s fate, so it’s clear which way one exec is betting.

KB Home

KB Home (NYSE:KBH), meanwhile, is in the middle of three insider purchases. Thomas Silk, SVP of Marketing and Communications at the company, bought 5,000 shares at $6.04 each, CEO Jeffrey Mezger snatched up 150,000 shares, and CFO Jeff Kaminski bought 15,000 shares. KB Home’s stock price performed fairly well in the first half of 2013, but a revenue miss in its latest quarter has sent shares down by about 5% in the past month. The company’s trio of bullish insiders makes the U.S.’s fifth-largest homebuilder worth watching.