Designer Brands Inc – (DBI, +N, Sep 21st) Jay Schottenstein (Executive Chairman since 2005; CEO from 2005-2009) purchased $19.1 million worth of stock on September 20th at $12.82. The 1.5 million share purchase brings his total indirect combined holdings of A and B shares to an estimated 21.5 million shares, roughly 53% of the company, […]
Insider Observations In those Insider Observations we look not only into weekly insider transactions and current sentiment, but sum up some trends and express our opinion on the rules surrounding 10b5-1 plans, which were implemented in October 2000. This is a short summary of our Highlights report for the US market which we send to […]
Fireeye Inc – (FEYE, +1, Sep 14th) We ranked this stock +N on August 12th based on purchases of $440,000 from William Robbins (Chief Revenue Officer, joined 2016), and $178,000 from John Watters (COO, joined 2016), both around $17 per share. Since that rank, Watters has purchased an additional 90,000 shares, spending $1.6 million at […]
Insider Observations It was a surprisingly busy week for insider activity in which we upgraded 13 stocks mostly in the Financial, Technology, Industrials sectors. We also downgraded 4 stocks, when 3 of them were from Consumer Discretionary. Interesting that out of the 13 upgrades, 5 we already had ranked prior to the week but additional […]
Insider Observations We downgraded 4 stocks this past week, upgraded 6. We lead with this sentence because “4” is the most number of downgrades we have had for many weeks. Insider sentiment has been deteriorating but that shift hadn’t generated many downgrades until this past week. Insider trading volume has begun declining ahead of 3Q […]
Robert Campbell (Enstar Group Chairman since 2011, joined in 2007) purchased $447,760 of stock on September 3rd at $223.88. Whilst this is a small addition to his holding of 163,306 shares, this purchase is notable as it is his largest and the highest price he has paid. It also represents a reversal from a timely […]
China Evergrande’s share price is under sustained pressure due to funding concerns. We originally negatively ranked the stock on the 4th August 2021 on the back of share sales by two directors. The shares are now down over 34% since we ranked it. This is what we said in our internal report in August: Qi He […]
Cano Health Inc – (CANO, +1, Sep 1st) Marlow Hernandez (CEO since 2009) purchased 1.576 million shares at a cost of $16.9 million in a series of stock buys during August 2021, at an average price of $10.73. As at the prospectus he owned 21.9 million Class B shares. Richard Aguilar (Chief Clinical Officer since […]
Asana announced record Q2 results last week resulting in strong share price performance. We originally positively ranked the stock on the 10th of June on buying from Dustin Moskovitz CEO and the shares are now up over 100% since we ranked it. This is what we said when we ranked the stock in June: Dustin […]
Reshma Kewalramani (Vertex Pharmaceutical Inc CEO since 2020, joined 2018) purchased $2.0 million of stock on the 19th August at $195.65, increasing his holding by 16%. This is a notable trade as it is his first buy since joining the company and he has been a regular seller of options and stock via 10b5-1 program […]