COO Makes a Big (Insider) Bet on FMC Technologies Stock
Ouch! Investors certainly are not happy about the earnings results at oilfield services company FMC Technologies (NYSE:FTI). Two days after the company...
Posts Tagged ‘Insider Purchases’
Chairman’s Purchases Fail to Lift FuelCell Energy Shares
On an up day for stock markets generally, there was one surprising loser in Tuesday trading: Alt-energy play FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) saw its shares...
Calling a Bottom: Basic Energy Services Insider Boosts Stake
At least one beleaguered energy company, Basic Energy Services (NYSE:BAS), is getting a large vote of confidence from the Chairman of its Board of Directors...
Investors Fired Up Over CEO’s Insider Purchase of Lexington Realty Trust Shares
After trading down all day, shares of real estate investment trust Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE:LXP) jumped nearly one full percentage point after-hours...
Investors Fired Up Over CFO’s Insider Purchase of SolarCity Shares
After trading mostly flat for most of Monday, shares of Elon Musk’s solar power play SolarCity (NASDAQ:SCTY) flared up by nearly one full percentage...
Builders FirstSource Has Doubled In Three Months — And Now Insiders Are Buying
Two months ago, news that Builders FirstSource (NASDAQ:BLDR) would be bulking up in the construction supplies segment by buying Denver-based ProBuild...
Christopher & Banks Corporation Bottom Fishes With Insider Buy
The past year has not been kind to the stock of women’s apparelier Christopher & Banks (NYSE:CBK). Over 12 months, the stock has sunk 45%, even...
Joyeux Noël! Another Insider Buy at Joy Global
The news just keeps getting better for shareholders of mining equipment maker Joy Global (NYSE:JOY). (At least, if you believe that insider buys mean...
Investors Sing “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy” Over Joy Global Insider Buys
On a mixed day for markets, shareholders of mining equipment maker Joy Global (NYSE:JOY) were jumping for… well, for joy Tuesday, over news that...
As NuVasive Stock Sinks, Its CEO Keeps Sinking Money Into It
As shares of medical device-maker NuVasive (NASDAQ:NUVA) soared towards a recent 52-week high of $51.25, sales by company insiders likewise ran amok....
Aeropostale CEO Makes a Bold Buy of His Sinking Company’s Stock
Weak sales, weaker guidance, and a quarterly loss — those were the “highlights” of teen retailer Aeropostale’s (NYSE:ARO) news...
Martin Marietta Materials Shares Boosted By Insider Buying
On a down day for the stock market generally, shares of quarry miner Martin Marietta Materials, Inc (NYSE:MLM) fared better than most, rising 1.6%. Part...
Heron Therapeutics Inc Shares Take Wing on Big Insider Buy
On a down day for the Nasdaq, shares of biotech Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX) were faring worse than most in Tuesday trading — until suddenly...
Why Are Insiders Betting on Basic Materials?
Over the last week, insiders at Ply Gem Holdings Inc (NYSE:PGEM) and KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. (NYSE:KS), two basic materials companies, have...
Insider Buys in This Fast Growing but Loss Generating Company – DexCom, Inc. (DXCM): Medtronic, Inc. (MDT), Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX)
Recently, Dr. Jay Skyler, a director of DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ:DXCM), spent nearly $1.1 million to buy 70,000 shares of the company at around $15.50 per...
Insiders Are Bullish About These 4 Dividend Stocks
Empirical studies show that stock investors who mimic insiders can outperform the market by as much as 7 percentage points. This estimate is based on...
A Board Member is Bullish About This Stock
Michael Armstrong, a Board member at IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS) directly purchased 5,550 shares of the company’s stock on October 10th at an average price...
Insiders Bought These Stocks Recently
Studies show that insider purchases tend to be bullish signs for a stock (read our discussion of studies on insider trading). This is generally accepted...
This Company’s CEO Bought Over $1 Million In Stock
Frank Laukien, CEO and President of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ:BRKR) has disclosed to the SEC that he directly purchased 100,000 shares on September 14th...
This Board Member Is In For $130,000
Carin Barth, who was appointed to the Board of Directors of Bill Barrett Corporation (NYSE:BBG) earlier this year, purchased 5,000 shares of the company...
A Board Member Likes This Ag Equipment Company
Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a company managed by Mallika Srinivasan, has filed with the SEC to declare that it purchased about 61,000 shares...
What are Insiders Buying Recently?
We like to keep track of buying and selling by company insiders, particularly when insiders purchase a stock. Because insiders’ income often depends...
Why is This Insider Buying Belden in Bulk?
Over the past year, shares of cable manufacturer Belden, Inc. (NYSE:BDC) have returned 19.6%, outpacing the diversified industrials industry average (...
4 Stocks Insiders are Buying This Week
Company insiders often have a better perspective of the company’s future performance than outside investors do. Furthermore, they have an incentive...
The COO and Interim CEO Agree: Buy This Stock
On August 3rd, according to a recent filing with the SEC, the COO of Omnicare Inc. (NYSE:OCR) purchased 10,000 shares at an average price of $32. The...
Delta Air Lines CFO Buys 50,000 Shares
Many people avoid investing in airlines, but one insider ignored that trope and the benefits of diversification in one fell swoop on Monday. Delta Air...
Two Board Members Are Buying This Stock
Woodward Inc (NASDAQ:WWD) is an industrial goods company which provides control and optimization systems (such as valves and pumps) for aerospace and...
Imitate This Insider Purchase
On Monday, Robert Mehrabian, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY), a diversified industrial electronics company, purchased...
Navistar, CVS, and Other Insider Purchases
By Nelson Hem, Benzinga Staff Writer Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a...
Insiders Are Bullish About This Utility Stock
AES (NYSE:AES), a global utility that produces electricity from a variety of sources including coal, natural gas, and renewable, had VP of Strategy Gardner...
Insider Trading Alert: Verifone $PAY
Douglas Bergeron, CEO of Verifone (PAY), disclosed earlier this month that DGB Investments- a related principal investment firm which presumably manages...
Insider Purchases in Medtronic, Exco, and Cyberonics
Insiders may buy shares of a company because they believe its stock price will move higher and want to profit from this anticipated rise. Sell-offs might...
Insider Trading Report: Hewlett-Packard $HPQ
Since the start of 2012, the technology sector has been the best performing segment of the market, returning nearly 11 percent. Much of this expansion...
5 Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Insider information pays. While insider purchases do not always mean investors should also buy the stock, on the average, when an insider purchases stock...
Insider Buys: Blackrock, Fresh Del Monte, Opko Health
Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company — they believe the stock...
An AIG Insider Agrees with Bruce Berkowitz
Insider purchases usually signal that the stock is undervalued. As a result, stock prices often increase after insiders disclose their transactions to...
Ken Griffin And Insiders Are Bullish About These Stocks
Corporate insiders and hedge funds generally have an edge over ordinary investors. Our research has shown that investors can beat the market by focusing...
8 Healthcare Stocks Insiders Are Bullish About
Insider trading based on material non-public information is illegal. But recent prosecutions indicate that insider trading is rampant on Wall Street....
Hedge Funds and Insiders Are Crazy about These Stocks
Hedge funds usually devote significant resources to researching stocks. Sometimes, they even cross the line to try to obtain material non-public information...
Insider Purchases in 8 Companies
Two months ago the following article by Benzinga reported insider purchases in 8 companies. At the end of the article we will take a look at returns since...
8 Stocks Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
There is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company — they believe the stock price is going to move higher and they want to profit...
Five Stocks Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
Generally, insiders have an edge over other investors because insiders know more about their companies than do outsiders. That’s why insiders aren’...
Five Surprisingly Profitable Bank Stocks with Insider Purchases
Between August and early December financial stocks underperformed the market by more than 5 percentage points. The trend seems to have reversed since...
Three Stocks Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
For the past eight weeks, Insider Monkey has been publishing articles about the stocks insiders were buying like crazy. The stocks we listed in the...
Insider Trading Alert: 3 Stocks Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
For the past seven weeks, Insider Monkey has been publishing articles about the stocks insiders were buying like crazy. The stocks we listed in the...
3 Stocks Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
Insider Monkey has been regularly publishing articles about the stocks insiders buy like crazy since the beginning of December. The stocks we highlighted...
Insider Monkey’s Portfolio and Stock Picks
Insider Monkey is a finance blog that focuses on corporate insiders and hedge fund managers. Academic studies support the view that qualified insider...
Five Stocks Insiders Are Buying in 2011
Academic studies have shown that insider trading is most profitable when several insiders buy around the same time. A study by University of Illinois...
One Stock Insiders Are Buying Like Crazy
Insider trading has been a very profitable investment strategy for a very long time. Academic studies going back to 1968 have shown that insider purchases...
