Insider Transactions

Martin Landis, a director atCrown Castle International (CCI) recently bought shares on two consecutive days last week. On December 9th, he picked up 2,100 shares. On December 10th, he bought 1,200 shares. The total cost for those two buys came to just under $540,000. Landis also bought shares in October. Most company insiders have been sellers of shares throughout the year at the cell tower firm. The company, structured as a real estate investment trust, has moved about 16 percent higher in ...
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Anna von Bayern, the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer atCoty (COTY), recently started a stake with a 32,100 share buy. The total price came to just over $232,000. This is the first buy from a company executive in months, but company directors have been active buyers over the past few months. In total, a handful of directors have picked up over 1.1 million shares of the cosmetics company. Overall, insiders own over 62 percent of shares. Shares of the firm have rebounded from ...
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Robert Singer, a director atKeurig Dr Pepper (KDP), recently added 2,500 shares to his stake. That increased his holdings by 11 percent. The total purchase price came to just over $75,000. That’s on top of another buy made from the director in November of 7,500 shares, which came to just over $226,000. Insiders have generally been sellers in the past year, although that’s occurred at the major shareholder level by firms JAB Holdings and Mondelez International. Despite the large sales, thanks to ...
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Michele Hooper, a director atUnited Airlines Holdings (UAL), recently purchased 1,900 shares. The buy increased her stake by 166 percent. The purchase price for the shares came to just over $93,000. This marks the first insider buy at the airline since mid-2019. Insiders have largely been sellers this year. That includes sales from directors and C-suite executives, even at prices as much as 43 percent lower than where shares trade today. The overall insider track record here is a tough one, given ...
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Lemuel Lewis, a director atDollar Tree (DLTR) recently added 1,000 shares to his holdings. The buy increased his stake by over 4 percent, and came to a total purchase price of over $112,000. This marks the first insider buy at the company since March. Company insiders have generally been sellers of shares, ranging from other directors to the company’s CEO and COO. Insiders have sold at prices as much as 16 percent higher than the current price. Overall, insiders own about 1.3 ...
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AJ Teague, co-CEO ofEnterprise Products Partners (EPD), recently added 5,025 shares. The buy came to $100,000, and represents a 0.25 percent increase in the co-CEO’s holdings. This is the third buy from the co-CEO this year. Other insiders have also been active buyers throughout the year, including both directors and C-suite executives. Investors would have to go back two years to find the last insider sale, which was a small one relative to insider buying. Overall, insiders own an impressive 32.5 percent ...
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Elio Sceti, a director atThe Kraft Heinz Co (KHC), recently picked up 90,000 shares. The buy is an initial stake in the firm, and the total purchase price of shares came out to $2.98 million. Insiders have a mixed trading record at the company, as 3G Global Food Holdings makes regular sales of millions of shares each year to reduce their stake. However, directors have been large buyers of shares overall in the past few years as well. The packaged food giant, ...
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Steven Lykken, a Senior Vice President atHormel Foods Corp (HRL), recently bought 6,873 shares. The buy increased his stake by over 25 percent, and came to a total cost of $322,000. This is the second buy from insiders in as many months, following a small sale by a Group Vice President in November. Generally, insiders have been nearly exclusively sellers of shares over the past three years. Insiders currently own over 47 percent of shares, however, so the relatively large and consistent ...
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