Insider Transactions

David MacLennan, a director atCaterpillar (CAT), recently bought 400 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 12 percent, and came to a total cost of $99,716. The director was the last buyer of Caterpillar shares back in May. Otherwise, company insiders have been sellers of shares, mostly from the exercise of stock options. The sales have included both directors and executives. Overall, company insiders own 0.15 percent of shares. The farm machinery company is up 28 percent in the past year, as revenues ...
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Daniel Schulman, President and CEO atPayPal Holdings (PYPL), recently bought 26,065 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 7 percent, and came to a total cost of $1.99 million. This marks the first insider buy since last May, when the company’s Chief Product Officer bought 7,370 shares, at a cost of $597,000. There have been three small sales since. Going back further, insider buying and selling has been more mixed, even when shares traded far higher than today. Overall, company insiders own ...
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R.A. Walker, a director atConocoPhillips (COP), recently added 6,000 shares. The buy increased the director’s holdings by 27 percent, and came to a total cost of $627,000. The same director was the last buyer of shares back in August 2021, with an initial stake of 22,500 shares, which cost just over $1.24 million. Otherwise, company directors and executives alike have largely been steady sellers of the stock, mostly on the exercise of stock options. Overall, insiders own a scant 0.14 percent of ...
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Gary Kelly, a director atLincoln National Corp (LNC), recently bought 7,169 shares. The buy came to a total cost of just over $200,000, and increased the director’s stake by 239 percent. Another director made a 3,000 share buy in November, paying about $10 more per share, and paying just over $112,000. Otherwise, company insiders have been modest sellers of shares over the past three years, including the company CEO and CFO. Overall, insiders own about 0.6 percent of the life insurance company’s ...
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Denise Morrison, a director atVisa (V), recently added 455 shares. The buy increased her holdings by 8 percent, and came to a total cost of $84,096. This marks the first insider buy at the company in the past three years. Generally, company executives have been regular sellers of Visa shares as their stock options have vested. A few directors have been modest sellers of shares at times as well. Overall, insiders own about 0.2 percent of shares. The credit card provider has seen ...
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Ruth Porat, a director atBlackstone (BX), recently bought 336 shares. The buy increased her stake by 1 percent, and came to a total cost just over $32,300. The director was also the most recent buyer of shares with a 20,000 share buy in December, shelling out just over $1.67 million. One company director exercised options since, and one company insider sold some shares earlier this month, but generally insiders haven’t been too active at the company. Overall, company insiders own 0.7 percent ...
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Alberto Paracchini, a director atKemper Corp (KMPR), recently bought 500 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 88 percent, and came to a total cost just under $32,000. This marks the first insider buy since last August, when two directors picked up 5,000 shares and 3,000 shares respectively. Otherwise, there have been some modest sales by other company directors. The last executive insider activity occurred in late 2021. Overall, insiders own about 4.6 percent of the property and casualty insurance company. Shares have ...
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Gary Greenfield, a director atDiebold Nixdorf (DBD), recently picked up 17,500 shares. The buy increased his holdings by 11 percent, and came to a total cost of $50,358. The buy comes a day after the company’s President and CEO picked up 30,000 shares, shelling out $68,300. Company insiders were last active back in May, when the company CFO and a number of directors bought shares. The last insider sale occurred in 2021. Overall, company insiders own 9.8 percent of shares. The banking software ...
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