Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: John Paulson, Ken Griffin, Anthony Scaramucci, Alden Global Capital, Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (OHI), Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS), and More

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Synopsys Inc (SNPS) EVP, Sales & Corp Marketing Joseph W Logan Sold $4.9 million of Shares (Guru Focus)
EVP, Sales & Corp Marketing of Synopsys Inc., Joseph W Logan, sold 32,400 shares of SNPS on 02/21/2020 at an average price of $150.77 a share. The total sale was $4.9 million. Synopsys Inc is a software development company. It supplies electronic design automation software used by engineers to design and test integrated circuits. It provides software and hardware used to develop the electronic systems that incorporate chips.

Tuesday 2/25 Insider Buying Report: OVV, CET (Nasdaq.com)
At Ovintiv, a filing with the SEC revealed that on Friday, Director Thomas G. Ricks purchased 15,500 shares of OVV, at a cost of $15.87 each, for a total investment of $245,985. Investors have the opportunity to bag OVV even cheaper than Ricks did, with the stock trading as low as $13.46 at last check today — that’s 15.2% below Ricks’s purchase price. Ovintiv is trading off about 6.3% on the day Tuesday. And at Central Securities, there was insider buying on Friday, by Vice President Andrew J. O’neill who bought 5,325 shares at a cost of $33.14 each, for a trade totaling $176,451. This buy marks the first one filed by O’neill in the past year. Central Securities is trading off about 1.9% on the day Tuesday. Bargain hunters have the opportunity to pick up CET even cheaper than O’neill did, with shares trading as low as $31.85 at last check today — that’s 3.9% under O’neill’s purchase price.

What Did This CEO Just Do with Personal Shares of Omega Healthcare (NYSE: OHI)? (Analyst Ratings)
Yesterday, the CEO of Omega Healthcare (OHI), Taylor Pickett, sold shares of OHI for $2.37M. Following Taylor Pickett’s last OHI Sell transaction on November 07, 2016, the stock climbed by 21.4%. In addition to Taylor Pickett, one other OHI executive reported Sell trades in the last month.

Simply Good Foods Rallies After Insider Buying Action (Seeking Alpha)
Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL +3.6%) trades higher after disclosing that Chairman James Kilts picked up another 88.5K shares. Kilts holds a total position of more than 826K shares of SMPL.

CFTC Wins Forex Fraud Trial on Damages and Obtains Judgment of More than $22 Million (HedgeCo.net)
(HedgeCo.Net) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that following a bench trial the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama entered a final judgment against defendants Husam Tayeh of Illinois and his companies, Dinar Corp., Inc. and My Monex, Inc., both Nevada corporations. The court’s ruling orders the defendants to pay more than $22.6 million in disgorgement and civil monetary penalties in connection with Tayeh’s fraudulent foreign currency (forex) scheme. The court previously found the defendants liable for violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, including fraud. “This ruling reaffirms the CFTC’s commitment to working in parallel with our enforcement counterparts at the federal, state, and local level,” said CFTC Director of Enforcement James McDonald.






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