John Wiley & Sons Inc (+N, WLY US, October 20th) Matthew Kissner (Interim President and CEO since Oct 2023, Group Executive Vice President 2019-2021, Chairman 2015-2019, Non Executive 2003-2015) purchased $502,000 of stock on the 19th October at $30.33, increasing his holding by 90%. He was recently appointed as Interim President and CEO but has been involved in […]

Coty Inc (+1, COTY US, October 9th) Isabelle Parize (Non-Executive since 2020) purchased $211,000 of stock on the 4th of October at $10.29, increasing her holding by 57%. She has made a series of successful purchases into rising prices, buying stock at $6.13 in November 2020, $6.60 in February 2021, and $8.90 in May 2021 and it’s encouraging to […]

Plains Gp Holdings Lp (+1, PAGP US, October 2nd) Willie Chiang (CEO and Chair since 2020, joined 2015) purchased $1 million worth of stock on September 28th at $16.24, increasing his holdings by +20% to 378,704 shares. We ranked this stock +N in May based on a similar size purchase from him at $13.25, that […]

Ligand Pharmaceutical Inc (+N, LGND US, September 26th) Todd Davis (CEO since 2022; Director since 2007) made his largest purchase, spending $238,000 on September 22nd at $59.38 and increasing his holdings by +4% to 73,090 shares. Davis has made two prior purchases, in August 2019 at $58 and in August 2011 at $7, both when he was a director, […]

Broadcom Inc (+1, AVGO US, September 20th) Harry You (Director since 2019) purchased 1,000 shares on September 15th at $859, spending $860,000 and increasing his holdings by +40% to 3,510 shares. This is his first open market purchase in the shares and is more than twice what he has received in prior sales, the last of which was […]

Mirum Pharmaceuticals Inc (+1, MIRM US, September 14th) Patrick Heron (Director since Nov. 2018) purchased $257,000 worth of stock on September 12th at $30.44. The purchase is indirect Frazier Life Sciences Healthcare, a private equity and venture capital firm where Heron has been a GP since 1999. Heron/Frazier Life, spent $3.9 million two weeks ago on […]

National Healthcare Corp (+1, NHC US, September 8th) Robert Adams (Chair since 2016, joined 2004) purchased $131,000 worth of stock on September 6th at $65.40, inching his holdings higher to 433,375 shares. This is his first purchase since 2011 when he made a timely purchase, half this size, at $31.76.  We ranked this stock +N on August 11th based […]

Valvoline Inc (+1, VVV US, August 30th) Mary Meixelsperger (CFO since 2016) purchased $201,000 worth of stock on August 28th at $33.55, increasing her holdings by 5% to 116,219 shares. This is her third purchase and her largest along with the highest price she has paid. She spent $55,000 on the IPO at $22 in […]

Energy Transfer Lp (+1, ET US, August 22nd) Kelcy Warren (Executive Chair, co-founder in 1996) continues to add aggressively to his holdings. On August 21st he spent $39 million at $12.96 per share, inching his holdings higher to an estimated 296.8m shares (10% of company).  We have had this stock ranked +1 since April 2022 based on purchases […]

Option Care Health Inc (+1, OPCH US, August 16th) Harry Jansen Kraemer (Chairman since 2019) purchased 55,000 shares on May 11th at $34.63, spending US$ 1.9 million and increasing his holding by 31%. It’s interesting to see him buying now, paying a 60% higher price in comparison to his buy in August 2021 at $21, […]

Enterprise Products Partners LP (+1, EPD US, August 8th) William Montgomery (Non-Executive Director since 2015) purchased 50,000 shares on August 4th at US$ 26.60, spending US$1.3 million. This is only his first purchase since 2016, and only his 3rd ever in these shares. It is also his largest purchase, increases his holdings by 77%, and the highest […]

Allegion Plc (+1, ALLE US, July 31st) John Stone (President & CEO since July 2022) purchased 17,500 shares on July 27th at $116.62, spending $2 million and increasing his holdings by +23% to 94,248 shares. Stone joined the company a year ago from Deere and made his first purchase in October 2022, spending $1.3 million […]

Since we did not rank any new stocks this past week, we are using Calavo Growers (CVGW +1 July 17th) as our stock of the week, a name we upgraded 11 days ago Calavo Growers Inc (+1, CVGW US, July 17th) Lecil Cole (CEO since 2023, Chairman and CEO between 1999-2020, Non-Executive 2020-2021) purchased $2.3 […]