Last Week's Insiders Transactions: 10 Buys For $60 Million, 136 Sells For Over $1.15 Billion
Courtesy of Finviz, the ratio of insider buying to selling transactions is 10 to 136. Total transaction value: Buys: $60.1 million; Sells: $1,146 million. This compares with last week's buys for $13.4 million and sells for $1,042 million. Over $2.1 Billion in insider sales in two weeks.
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on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:20
#35575
Tyler,
when you click on the jpg, it only shows the low res shot.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:23
#35579
you can zoom in on the hyperlink
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:33
#35610
doh!
thanks
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:40
#35622
havent seen someone use the whole word 'hyperlink' in a long time. dunno why i found that interesting.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:20
#35707
This whole world-wide-web thing continues to amaze me. What will the computer-whiz kids come up with next?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:23
#35581
Try clicking on it with the little magnifying glass cursor with the '+' in it. That should embiggenify it. Assuming you're using Firefox, of course, which you should be.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:10
#36034
i know right where you are, next to the tomatoes and celery in aisle 1
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:23
#35578
I think if there is one stock that really says everything there is to say about the rally in the last month is CLW.
Basically a company that makes toilet paper. Moved from $25 to almost $50 in the last month and was about $8 at the beginning of this year. I think it may be the biggest gainer this year of all stocks.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:28
#35594
Toilet paper equities are gonna get huge; The FED are printing dollars on toilet paper now, that way you can put them to addition good use even after hyperinflation hits.
You gotta find value where you can in this market.
cougar
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:36
#35616
At least you can cleanse yourself with toilet paper. US dollars... not so much.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 21:56
#36286
I dont see anything wrong with this as I consider toilet paper a commodity :)
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:23
#35580
The most relevant insider sell in my mind is the 12M dumping done by Cohen & Steers in conjuction with the additional 10M offering this week.
I think that should tell you all you need to know about the current state of affairs in the RE world.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:26
#35588
some of us may be closer to this news than you might think ;)
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:38
#35745
i know right where you are, next to the tomatoes and celery in aisle 1
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:45
#35756
Hey, if you know anyhting about what's going on with C&S, lettuce know.
Har-dee-har-har!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:24
#35582
Golly gee. Seems like someone isn't buying the green shoots story, don't it? For that matter, they aren't buyng the "square root" landing story, either. The rats are jumping ship, time to look to the waterline.
So what's the over/under on when the second down-leg on the W-shaped "recovery" hits? End of August? Middle of September?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:31
#35600
Insiders $13MM up to $60MM a 400% increase? How is that NOT a green shoots story these days?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:29
#35726
LOL
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 16:04
#35864
No more koolaid for you, young man!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:27
#35589
Mayhap their mortgage payments doth balloon apace?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:28
#35590
Only buys I see are from Govt Corp (C). Atleast someone is long the US
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:33
#35605
they hedged it with CDS's though. so.... 6 of one...half-dozen of the other...
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:21
#35709
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Each day I watch this market and the media, I feel like I live in The Village.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:09
#36032
That might help strengthen the implications of said selling.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:28
#35591
interesting. the whole insider buying v insider selling is a very interesting picture to look at (and no, i don't mean this particular jpeg...but this one's good!). there's the aspect that some have lost a ton of money and are simply looking to take some money out of the market and back into cash-reserves, or to rebalance their risk profiles...
the other aspect, though, is that these are only the reported transactions!! imagine what is going on that isn't reported to the SEC (because it doesn't legally have to be reported) with john q. vice-president at public company X (sorry, not us steel...think variable) selling/buying shares. you never see that but you gotta imagine that there's a lot of that going on -- in aggregate. and i'm sure it ain't on the buying direction.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:53
#35769
I think what gets most overlooked in the realm of insider trading is options activity.
Options acquisition activity is reported a little differently than open market insider buys, and much of it really isn't captured. On the other hand, once an option is exercised, it will eventually be sold and recorded as such for all to see.
So while net accumlation of shares by insiders is probably higher than you think due to options acquisitions, the relevant question is: how much option granting and acquiring is really going on?
The answer, my friends, is... not much. In other words, the picture being painted (high sell/buy ratio) may be worse than the true picture, as "risk-less" options being given to exectuives are also below average.
Just thought I'd put that out there...
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:28
#35595
This looks terrible, but i'd like to compare this ratio going 2 to 3 years back.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:31
#35599
there was a very high level of insider selling before the top in 2008 from what I remember
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 20:04
#36172
Including selling by politicians. The Clintons liquidated their "blind" trust when the DJ was around 12500 in mid 2008. That move now has a name, it's called "Porking the Future", when a little bird with great timing tells a politician to get in or out the market.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=apRqaNmgbllE
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:32
#35602
News Flash from Bloomberg:
"stocks off their best and worst levels of the day"
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:34
#35613
Put this insider selling together with all the IPOs and secondaries. Lots and lots of selling by folks in the know into a market thought overvalued by everyone who can divide P by E. THE TREND IS UP!!!!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:36
#35615
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/08/13/guitar_legend_inventor_les_paul_dies_at_age_94_boston_globe/ a moment of silence for this great man; please
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:28
#35722
amen....
bought my 16 yr old, 13 at the time, a 64 gibson sg special. had one of the original p 90s on it and years ago someone threw out one of the 90s and put in a humbucker...anyways, shortly after buying it, i looked at the humbucker and it wa a paf, which is worth just about what i payed! what a beautiful piece of wood.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:30
#35986
RIP...a true pioneer - without his recording technique innovations, we would never have had 60's and 70's rock music. Not to mention his guitar designs, and his own musical virtuosity. A genius, he will be missed by many.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:40
#35995
In honor of our equities markets can I get a "How High the Moon," from y'all, with a nod to Les Paul?
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:37
#36598
Cheeky, stayed focused. We're not talking about that now. Please put your head back on your desk and keep quiet until the bell rings.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:42
#35629
Sow (unpaid for options), then reap. Doesn't mean dick about "going forwards". Means the boss is once again raping shareholders. FU boss.
40muleteam borax
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:45
#35634
I give up. This rally is never gonna end. Not in stocks, not in oil. Insiders selling, unemployment rising, retail sales down, no 'summer driving season' again, P/E ratios of 145...
Doesn't matter.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 16:19
#35878
We sense from your frustration that you have not been drinking your koolaid ration. Get over to CNBC and do 20 "hell yeah!" and 40 "go'n green!" and you will be forgiven.
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 00:09
#36471
You failed to mention 60 "good stuff!"s. I think I heard that at least 5 times today after someone extracted a miniscule nugget of good info out of the bad.
Hrm, maybe it was just Kudlow doing that...
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:41
#36600
I agree. Extremely frustrating in the sense that I wonder if I missed something. I suppose the pedophile Keynes was right at least once, "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain liquid."
I suppose though if you have a private printing press and powerful friends around the world you can make the pinhead angels dance a very long time.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:47
#35642
Wake me up when the Proshares insiders start selling the short ETF's I'm in...
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:00
#35668
So insider buys increased 349% w/w. Green shoots!!!
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:42
#36602
Someone shoot the green shoots.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:00
#35669
Rats jumping ship, again.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:25
#35716
Are these numbers better than expected though? Cos that would change them from being bearish to bullish for stocks. lol
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:26
#35721
Larry, Steve, Cramer, Denis,...is any of this getting through to what ever small brain you might have?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:28
#35724
Larry has been bullish since 14,000!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:09
#36031
Within that link Megan wrote: "But financial meltdowns don't offer villains, for the simple reason that no one person or even one group is powerful enough to take down a whole system."
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:28
#35725
YOURE ALL IDIOTS
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:43
#36603
14:28: Break time at MSNBC
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:37
#35739
The math on the buys is all fkd up.. look at BAC: 63,000 shares at 15 and the cost is $1mm??
either that or I will stop having scotch before 12pm
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:54
#35771
=945K, close enough, relax and have another drink
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 15:02
#35781
Tyler, I, for one, am most grateful that these selfless 'insiders' have magnanimously granted the rest of us this peerless opportunity to share in the cornucopia of endless profits their companies are sure to produce. They deserve medals, or at the very least, 7-digit bonuses. So, let us show our appreciation by giving every insider the very best price possible for those shares. Buy, buy 'till it hurts, then buy some more! Ubu.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 15:25
#35819
MONEY talks, Bullshit WALKS...
Follow the money, not the happy talk!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 15:46
#35845
Looks like Krawcheck has bought $1 million worth of BAC! Is she a true believer or is she just out of the loop?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:32
#35990
She's an insider...lol
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:32
#35991
the constant drumbeat of insider is the greenest shoot of them all. smoke 'em if ya' got 'em, johnny!
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:33
#35992
s/b "insider selling".
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:01
#36017
Tyler, could you possibly post up the % of their shares that each of these individuals sold, or even the absolute number of shares they owned prior to their sales this week?
That might help strengthen the implications of said selling.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:07
#36027
Try clicking on it with the little magnifying glass cursor with the '+' in it. That should embiggenify it. Assuming you're using Firefox, of course, which you should be.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 18:10
#36035
Blah blah.. show us what percentage of their ownership they all offloaded, that is the main determinant here. Even if i thought everything was honky dory in my company, i'd still offload 20-30% to liquidate some of what i've vested..
Markets are doing well.. times were rough, people obviously can't predict markets.. they want to offload a bit and make some money to keep way.. Don't see anything wrong with it.
on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 06:47
#36606
What's the P/E on the entire index? How many people are unemployed? Wages going up or going down? Stores opening or closing? How's the govmnt doing on those bond auctions? Do you really see nothing wrong here?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 19:13
#36112
Not sure why this is dropped out there, for someone to deduce
the implied message. The market is falling! Get real please.
1 billion in sales?? BFD. They are just beginning to skim
their profits. They begin this process well in advance often
weeks if not months ahead of time.
If you think the market is going down, you are mistaken. You
haven't seen anything yet. Any many would like you to believe
otherwise. Especially those with an agenda.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 19:18
#36119
More BS from ZH...how ridiculous. I swear 90% of the stock market bloggers are working for the pigmen. ZH relies on sensationalism to help push you in a certain direction.
Just think about it. If you were fixing the markets (like the fed, GS, MS, JPM, treasury and others) wouldn't you have pumpers out there veiled as "good guys" that are going to help you. Attila is the best. Slope of Hope is another.
Watch your back. You will get nothing for nothing. These guys will never tell you what is really going on unless its to their advantage.
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 19:25
#36128
There you go again, ZH. More negative crap. Did it ever occur to you that all these insiders are just freeing up some capital so that next time KIMCO or somebody comes out with a sweet secondary, they'll have the cash to play?
on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 19:44
#36147
Did you mean that as a serious question?