Chesapeake Energy Corp – (CHK, +1, June 29th) Between June 16th and June 27th, the CEO, the COO, and the Chairman purchased a total of $996,553 of stock at an average price of $81.94. They are the first buyers since the company emerged from bankruptcy in February 2021. Domenic Dell’osso (CEO since 2021, CFO 2010-2021) […]
Vistra Corp – (VST, +1, June 21st) Brian Ferraioli (Non Executive since 2017) purchased $181,000 of stock on the 17th June at $22.50, increasing his holding by 12%. His record in the stock is good, most notably a series of buys he made during 2020-21 at relatively depressed prices, most recently buying stock at $15.89 […]
Avis Budget Group Inc – (CAR, +1, June 15th) Bernardo Hees (Executive Chairman since 2020) has now spent $15 million purchasing shares over the past month. We upgraded the stock to +N on May 23rd after his first $5 million purchase at $189. He subsequently made two additional $5 million purchases, on May 24th at […]
Nextera Energy Inc – (NEE, +1, June 6th) Eric Silagy (Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Florida Power & Light Company since 2012) purchased 13,128 shares on June 2nd at $76.45, spending $1 million and increasing his holdings by 6% to 250,000 shares. Silagy has been CEO of FPL for over 10 years and this […]
Agilon Health Inc – (AGL, -1, May 31st) Michael Smith (Director since 2017; Co-founder Cardinal Equity Fund, former CFO Anthem) sold 145,874 shares on May 25th at $19.53, cutting his holdings in half to 163,118 shares. This is Smtih’s first sale in the shares, and it is concerning to see him abruptly sell half his […]
Middleby Corp – (MIDD, +1, May 26th) Nassem Ziyad (Director since 2017) purchased $276,000 worth of stock on May 24th at $135.83, increasing his holdings by 23% to 10,845 shares. This is Ziyad’s largest purchase and two years after a timely buy in March 2020 at $73. We ranked this stock +N on May 17th […]
Jackson Financial Inc (JXN US, +1, May 18th) On May 11th the company reported their financial results and from May 13-16 four insiders have purchased a total of $1 million worth of stock at prices ranging from $30-32. The buyers include Laura Prieskorn (CEO, spending $150,000), Devhumar Ganguly (COO, spending $306,000), and Carrie Chelko (GC, […]
Parker Hannifin Corp (PH US, +1, May 11th) James Wainscott (Non-Executive since 2009) purchased $809,000 of stock at $269.67 on May 9th, increasing his holding by 20%. This is only his third purchase in more than 10 years and by far his largest. His two previous acquisitions in December 2009 and August 2011 at $54.69 […]
Simmons First National Corp – (SFNC, +1, May 4th) Robert Fehlman (COO since 2021, CFO 2008-2021) purchased $120,000 of stock on the 3rd May at $24.00, increasing his holding by 4%. Despite his long tenure at the company this is only his 2nd ever purchase, his first was very well timed, buying $52,000 of stock […]
Merrimack Pharmaceutical Inc – (MACK, +1, January 4th) Eric Andersen (Non-Executive since 2019) bought $2.8 million of stock on the 30th of December at $10.67, increasing his stake by 20%. The purchases were indirect and on behalf of Western Standard, they now own 11.4% of the outstanding shares. They made a series of purchases into […]
Hasbro Inc – (HAS, +N, April 26th) Christian Cocks (CEO since Jan 2022, joined 2018) purchased $905,000 worth of stock on April 21st at $89.59, increasing his holdings by +18% to 65,945 shares. Cocks was named CEO in January, having joined in 2018, leading the team at Wizards of the Coast. Cocks is replacing interim […]
Blackrock Inc – (BLK, +N, April 19th) William Ford (Director since 2018) purchased 3,000 shares on April 18th at $688, spending $2.1m and increasing his holdings by +25% to 14,915 shares. Ford last purchased shares in October 2018 at $404. He joined the board in 2018 and made four purchases that year, averaging down and […]
Energy Transfer Lp – (ET, +1, Apr 11th) Michael Grimm (Non Executive since 2018) purchased $5.7 million of stock on the 6th April at $11.21, increasing his stake by 263%. This is an extremely unusual large buy relative to both his historic trades in Energy Transfer (he has only made two previous buys, the largest […]
LCI Industries – (LCII, +1, Apr-04) On March 31st, the CEO, Chair and a divisional president all made large purchases around $107 per share, spending a total of $2.4m. We have this stock ranked +N based on a $560,000 purchase from Kieran O’Sullivan (Director since 2015) on March 8th at $112, and with this additional […]