Ouch! Investors certainly are not happy about the earnings results at oilfield services company FMC Technologies (NYSE:FTI). Two days after the company...
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July 24 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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July 1 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 24 - Commodities, Insider Trading, News - Comments
After trading down all day, shares of real estate investment trust Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE:LXP) jumped nearly one full percentage point after-hours...
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June 15 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 15 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Two months ago, news that Builders FirstSource (NASDAQ:BLDR) would be bulking up in the construction supplies segment by buying Denver-based ProBuild...
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June 13 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 13 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 11 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 9 - Insider Trading - Comments
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....
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June 8 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Weak sales, weaker guidance, and a quarterly loss — those were the “highlights” of teen retailer Aeropostale’s (NYSE:ARO) news...
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June 4 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 3 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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June 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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November 13 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
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...
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March 18 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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October 28 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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October 14 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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September 21 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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September 18 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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September 18 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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September 13 - Insider Trading - Comments
We like to keep track of buying and selling by company insiders, particularly when insiders purchase a stock. Because insiders’ income often depends...
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September 13 - Insider Trading - Comments
Over the past year, shares of cable manufacturer Belden, Inc. (NYSE:BDC) have returned 19.6%, outpacing the diversified industrials industry average (...
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September 5 - Insider Trading - Comments
Company insiders often have a better perspective of the company’s future performance than outside investors do. Furthermore, they have an incentive...
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August 10 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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August 10 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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August 9 - Insider Trading - Comments
Woodward Inc (NASDAQ:WWD) is an industrial goods company which provides control and optimization systems (such as valves and pumps) for aerospace and...
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August 7 - Insider Trading - Comments
On Monday, Robert Mehrabian, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY), a diversified industrial electronics company, purchased...
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August 1 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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July 20 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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July 20 - Insider Trading - Comments
Douglas Bergeron, CEO of Verifone (PAY), disclosed earlier this month that DGB Investments- a related principal investment firm which presumably manages...
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July 16 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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June 28 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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June 13 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider information pays. While insider purchases do not always mean investors should also buy the stock, on the average, when an insider purchases stock...
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April 17 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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March 9 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider purchases usually signal that the stock is undervalued. As a result, stock prices often increase after insiders disclose their transactions to...
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March 2 - Insider Trading - Comments
Corporate insiders and hedge funds generally have an edge over ordinary investors. Our research has shown that investors can beat the market by focusing...
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January 24 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider trading based on material non-public information is illegal. But recent prosecutions indicate that insider trading is rampant on Wall Street....
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December 25 - Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge funds usually devote significant resources to researching stocks. Sometimes, they even cross the line to try to obtain material non-public information...
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November 15 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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November 3 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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August 10 - Insider Trading - Comments
Generally, insiders have an edge over other investors because insiders know more about their companies than do outsiders. That’s why insiders aren’...
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April 24 - Insider Trading - Comments
Between August and early December financial stocks underperformed the market by more than 5 percentage points. The trend seems to have reversed since...
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February 9 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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January 31 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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January 23 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider Monkey has been regularly publishing articles about the stocks insiders buy like crazy since the beginning of December. The stocks we highlighted...
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January 16 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider Monkey is a finance blog that focuses on corporate insiders and hedge fund managers. Academic studies support the view that qualified insider...
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January 13 - Insider Trading - Comments
Academic studies have shown that insider trading is most profitable when several insiders buy around the same time. A study by University of Illinois...
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January 9 - Insider Trading - Comments
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...
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January 2 - Insider Trading - Comments