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Jimmy Iovine, a director at Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), recently added 13,740 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 42 percent, and came to a total cost of just over $1 million. This is the first insider buy at the company since March, when a director bought shares at a price about 25 percent higher than where the stock trades today. Over the past three years, company insiders have generally been regular and steady sellers of shares. Despite the massive and regular ...
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Shares of telecom company AT&T (T) are up about 8 percent over the past year, thanks in part to a strong rally over the past few weeks. One trader sees a pullback in shares in the month ahead. That’s based on the January 2023 $19 put. With 31 days until expiration, 9,297 contracts traded compared to a prior open interest of 250, for a 37-fold rise in volume on the trade. The buyer of the puts paid $0.41. Shares recently traded right ...
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Some traders are betting the worst is over for markets. That’s based on the view that the Fed will start tapering its interest rate hikes. But as long as interest rates are being hiked, they’ll continue to weigh on stocks. For investors who don’t want to get whipsawed while this plays out, there are a number of investment strategies to focus on instead. The simplest and arguably best is simply to buy and hold dividend-paying stocks in industry-leading companies. While such a ...
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Pershing Square Capital Management, a major holder at The Howard Hughes Company (HHC), recently added another 1,560,205 shares. The buy increased the fund’s stake by just over $109 million, an increase of 11 percent. The fund was also the last buyer of shares, picking up about 150,000 shares back in September 2021. Back then, they paid about $13.8 million for a position that’s now down nearly 20 percent. Other company insiders have been fairly quiet this year. Overall, company insiders own ...
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Shares of mortgage REIT AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC) have slid 35 percent over the past year. One trader sees a further decline in the months ahead. That’s based on the June 2023 $7.00 put. With 192 days until expiration, 32,159 contracts traded compared to a prior open interest of 358, for a 90-fold rise in volume on the trade. The buyer of the puts paid $0.26 to make the bet. AGNC stock recently traded near $10, so the stock would need to ...
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The past few years have seen a number of companies come to compete for cloud services. Most have focused around providing the hardware itself. That oligopoly looks fairly secure. But there’s still a rich environment for cloud services providers to benefit. Some are new players to the tech space, built up quickly over a few years. Other players aren’t new to the tech space, but have adapted with the times. One of those latter players is performing surprisingly strongly now. That company ...
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Charles Reeves, CEO at MidWestOne Financial (MOFG), recently bought 24,858 shares. The buy increased his holdings by nearly 350 percent, and came to a total cost just under $857,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company since March, when a director picked up 350 shares, paying just under $11,000 to do so. Other company executives have been buyers in the past two years. The last insider sale was over two years ago. Overall, company insiders own 8.2 percent of ...
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Shares of energy giant ExxonMobil (XOM) have been on a tear this year, with an 85 percent rally. One trader sees a pullback in the months ahead. That’s based on the February 2023 $80 puts. With 77 days until expiration, 4,511 contracts traded compared to a prior open interest of 183, for a 25-fold rise in volume on the trade. The buyer of the puts paid $0.44 to make the downside bet. The stock last traded for just under $112, so shares ...
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