Insider Transactions

Christopher Swift, the Chairman and CEO ofThe Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), picked up another $251,000 worth of shares recently. The buy added 6,975 shares in total, or a 2.4 percent increase in the CEO’s holdings. Insider data at the company shows a mix of buys and sells. Most interestingly, however, the same CEO was a big seller of shares a year ago, when they traded 40 percent higher. Although shares are down substantially over the past year, revenues are flat and ...
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Stephen Neal, a director atNvidia (NVDA) recently bought 450 shares of Nvidia. The purchase price came to just over $224,000. The director now owns just under 4,000 shares of the company. Neal has been a buyer of shares throughout the year, although this is his largest purchase year-to-date. Insiders have almost exclusively been sellers, as is typical of a large-cap tech company that issues large amounts of shares to employees. With the company’s latest product announcements and increased cryptocurrency mining demand, however, ...
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Eric Palmer, the Chief Financial Officer atCigna (CI), recently picked up 1,000 shares. The buy cost just over $168,000, and leaves the CFO with over 26,800 shares, a 3 percent increase. As a large, publicly-traded company, there are a number of both buys and sells over the past year, with sellers far outweighing buyers. This is the second insider buy since June. Generally, a CFO buy is a solid sign. As the company’s main expert on finances, a CFO tends to read ...
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Henry Samueli, a director atBroadcom (AVGO), recently picked up 101,740 shares. The buy increased his stake by about 1 percent but came to a whopping $36.7 million thanks to the company’s high share price. This is the second insider buy this month following the 167 share buy from director Raul Fernandez, a purchase that came to over $60,000. Insiders have mostly been sellers this year. Shares of the semiconductor company are up about 30 percent in the past year. The company has ...
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Albert Monaco, a director at timberland owner and operatorWeyerhaeuser (WY), recently picked up 10,000 shares. The overall stake cost just over $291,000, and more than doubled the director’s stake. This marks the first director buy since March. Over the past year, there have been a number of both buys and sells at the company by C-suite executives as well as company directors. Shares of the company have traded slightly down over the past year. Revenue and earnings are slightly down, but the ...
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Olivier Le Peuch, CEO atSchlumberger (SLB), recently added to his stake with a 25,000 share buy. That brings his total holdings by 15 percent to over 191,700 shares. The total purchase came to just over $448,000. The buy comes as the oil and gas service and equipment supplier faces challenging times. With oil demand and prices down over the past year, the share price has slid by nearly half. What’s more, revenues have dropped by over a third. The company recently cut ...
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Louis Vachon, a director atMolson Coors Beverage (TAP), recently added to his stake with a 3,000 share buy. That brings his total holdings to over 26,400 shares for a 13 percent increase. The total buy came to just over $105,000. With the stock market in selloff mode, a holding in the beverage space is a great defensive sector to be in, so it’s no surprise that directors are buying now. That said, it’s really the valuation right now that makes things look ...
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There are different ways to classify the “most bought.” It could be the number of shares, the number of insiders, the number of buy transactions, and the dollar value of the buying. In this circumstance, it comes down to the number of shares being purchased with a minimum of two transactions. Between June 1 and June 5, RCM Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: RCMT) saw insiders buy 1.1 million shares for a total value of $1.32 million in two separate transactions. RCMT is ...
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