$MIDD.US – ranked positive on May 26th, 2022

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 […]

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$JXN.US – ranked positive on May 18th, 2022

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, […]

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$PH.US – ranked positive on May 11th, 2022

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 […]

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$SFNC.US – ranked positive on May 4th, 2022

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 […]

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testing $MACK.US ranked positive on January 6th, 2022

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 […]

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$HAS.US – ranked positive on April 26th, 2022

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 […]

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$BLK.US – ranked positive on April 19th, 2022

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 […]

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$ET.US – ranked positive on April 11th, 2022

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 […]

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$LCII.US – ranked positive on April 4th, 2022

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 […]

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$LSEA.US – ranked positive on March 29th, 2022

Landsea Homes Group – (LSEA, +1, Mar-29) Qin Zhou (Director since 2021) purchased $183,000 worth of stock from March 17th-25th at $8.90, his first purchase in the shares. John Ho (CEO) purchased $274,000 of stock on March 17th at $8.91, adding to the $507,000 he spent on March 15th at $7.77 which was part of […]

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