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US market weekly highlights for 31 August – 3 September, 2021

Insider Observations The pace of insider buying slowed this past week from 23rd to 27th August 2021, however insider sentiment remains neutral with five sells for every four buy trades. We reviewed far fewer interesting buys, likely a combination of higher stock prices (Russell 2000 +5% on the week, S&P 500 +1.5%), buyer fatigue, early […]

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$PSN – Parsons Corp ranked positive on August 19, 2021

Parsons Corp – (PSN, +1, Aug 19th) George Ball (CFO since 2008) purchased $874,000 of stock on the 16th August at $34.95, increasing his holding by 14%. His 3 previous buys since the company’s IPO in May 2019 at $27 have been well timed, most recently buying at $30.25 in November 2020. His record at […]

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US market weekly highlights for 23-27 August, 2021

Insider Observation Insiders (senior management and execs trading shares in their companies) in the U.S. are keeping us busy, especially those filling out the green order tickets. We upgraded 19 stocks where we see notable insider activity, with no downgrades. To come up with those 19 newly ranked stocks we analyzed approximately 150 insider purchases […]

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US market weekly highlights for 16-20 August, 2021

It was a busy week for insider (senior management and execs trading shares in their companies) activity in the US, Insider Sentiment remained neutral with 1.4 Sells to every buy, we found far more interesting insider purchases than we did sales. We upgraded 18 stocks this week where we see notable insider activity. This is […]

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$LPX US – Louisiana Pacific Corp ranked positive on August 10, 2021

Louisiana Pacific Corp – (LPX, +1, Aug 10th) Two Louisiana Pacific Corp insiders were trading stocks recently. Stephen Macadam (Director since 2019) purchased $104,000 worth of stock on August 9th at $56.24, increasing his holdings by +6% to 30,398 shares. This is Macadam’s fourth purchase and follows very timely purchases in May 2020 at $21 […]

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$HMST US – Homestreet Inc ranked positive on August 6, 2021

Three HMST US insiders were trading stocks recently. Douglas Smith (Non-Executive since 2012) purchased $389,099 of stock at $38.46 on August 3rd, increasing his holding by 11%. This is his largest acquisition since he subscribed for $1 million of stock in February 2012 on the IPO. This is also the highest price he has paid. […]

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$CCI.US – Crown Castle International ranked positive on July 29, 2021

CCI.US insider trading stocks J Martin (Chairman since 2002) purchased 11,200 shares at $191.51 on July 26th, spending $2.1 million and increasing his holding by 6%. He qualifies as a “Smart Buyer” with an almost perfect record of 9 timely purchases out of 10 since he started buying in June 2002. This purchase is notable as […]

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