Insider Transactions

Patrick Driscoll, an EVP atWalgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), recently bought 5,172 shares. The buy increased his stake by 10 percent, and came to a total cost of $146,984. That’s the first insider activity since March, when the company CEO bought 10,000 shares, at a price of $339,510. Otherwise, a company director sold shares last year and another vice president exercised a stock option. In total, company insiders own about 17.2 percent of the drugstore chain. Shares have been trending lower this year, with ...
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Reuben Leibowitz, a director atSimon Property Group (SPG), recently added 536 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 1 percent, and came to a total cost of $61,100. He was among 11 company directors who picked up shares in the past week, and bought the largest amount. The smallest amount for a mere 28 shares valued at $3,252. All directors increased their stake by 1-2 percent. They also made the same move at the end of March. There have been no insider ...
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White Mountains Insurance Group, a major holder ofMediaAlpha (MAX) has acquired an additional 5,916,816 shares. The buy came to over $35 million, and is a 35 percent increase in the insurance company’s position in shares. This marks the first insider buy this year. Some company insiders have been sellers of shares this year, mostly in February at a higher price than where the stock trades today. Overall, company insiders own about 6.7 percent of shares, and institutions such as White Mountain own ...
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William Shepard, a director atCME Group (CME), recently bought 322 shares. The buy came to a total cost just under $58,000, and the buy increased the director’s stake by less than 1 percent. The director has been a regular buyer since last November, with no insider sales in that time. This is his sixth purchase. The last purchase occurred in March, and came to just under $94,000. Insiders were largely sellers before then. Overall, company insiders own 0.5 percent of shares. The stock ...
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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), a major holder ofOccidental Petroleum (OXY), continues to accumulate shares. Last week saw a 2,137,250 share buy, valued at $122.1 million. That’s the first buy in nearly a month, following multiple buys in May. Berkshire, run by Warren Buffett, now owns over 25 percent of the oil company, and has permission from regulators to buy up to 50 percent of shares. Company insiders own 0.2 percent of shares, and institutions like Berkshire own over 82 percent of the company. Occidental ...
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Brian Derksen, a director atOneok (OKE), recently bought 4,900 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 36 percent, and came to a total cost just under $292,000. This marks the first buy at the company in over a year, when Oneok’s President and CEO bought 8,975 shares, paying about $1 million to do so. One company director sold shares last year, otherwise company insiders have been fairly inactive over the past three years Overall, company insiders own 0.5 percent of shares. The oil ...
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David Dobson, a director atJohn Wiley & Sons (WLY), recently bought 3,000 shares. The buy increased his stake by 61 percent, and came to a total cost just under $95,000. This marks the first insider buy since 2021. Otherwise, company executives have been sellers of shares, largely last year, with two sales so far this year. One sale came to just under $1,000,000, at a time when shares traded nearly twice as high as today. Overall, company insiders own 9.0 percent of ...
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Carl Icahn, a major owner atSouthwest Gas Holdings (SWX), recently added 9,652 shares. The buy came to a total price of $559,700, and increased his holdings by less than one percent. Icahn has been increasing his position since March, buying over 3 million shares in total across a number of transactions. Company insiders were last sellers of shares in June 2022, when the share price was about 50 percent higher than where the stock trades today. Overall, insiders own about 0.5 percent ...
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