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This Provider of Pet Health Care Services Has Seen Increased Insider Selling as of Late

To begin with, VCA Inc. (NASDAQ:WOOF)’s Senior Vice President of Development, Neil Tauber, discarded 2,217 shares on Monday and 47,783 shares on Tuesday at prices varying from $64.00 to $64.72 per share, trimming his ownership to 126,378 shares. More importantly, Arthur J. Antin, Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, offloaded a whopping amount of 200,000 shares last Wednesday at prices ranging from $63.75 to $64.48 per share, all of which were held in a trust fund that currently owns 284,778 shares. Mr. Antin also holds a direct ownership stake of 70,870 shares.

The provider of pet health care services has seen its shares gain an impressive 181% in the past five years and 23% in the past year alone. In early May, VCA Inc. (NASDAQ:WOOF) acquired an 80% ownership interest in Companion Animal Practices, North America (CAPNA) for roughly $344 million. Nevada-based CAPNA operates a network of 56 free standing animal hospitals. Larry Robbins’ Glenview Capital trimmed its stake in VCA Inc. (NASDAQ:WOOF) by 23% during the January-to-March period to 4.88 million shares.

This Kidney Care Company Registered a Cluster of Insider Selling Last Week

DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) registered a cluster of insider selling in the past few weeks, but some insider selling was connected to freshly-vested stock appreciation rights or was conducted under pre-arranged trading plans. So let’s have a look at the spontaneous and informative insider sales only. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kent J. Thiry sold 32,880 shares on Friday at a weighted average sale price of $76.99, cutting his direct ownership to 39,184 shares. Dennis L. Kogod, Chief Executive Officer of DaVita International and President of the Healthcare Partners division, unloaded 7,700 shares last Tuesday at an average price of $77.35. After the not-so-distant sale, Mr. Kogod currently owns 18,766 shares.

In early March, the provider of kidney care services completed its previously-announced acquisition of a nationally-recognized physician group called the Everett Clinic Medial Group, which involved the acquisition of Everett’s 20 care sites north of Seattle. Shares of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) are 10% in the green year-to-date. A total number of 37 hedge fund vehicles monitored by our team were invested in the company at the end of March, amassing roughly 28% of the company’s outstanding shares. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway had 38.57 million shares of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) among its equity holdings at the end of the first quarter.

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