An insider transaction occurs when a company executive that has non-public information about a company buys or sells shares of their company’s stock. Insiders, such as CEOs, COOs, and CFOs, are required by law to regularly report their stock purchases and sales to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tracking a company’s insider transactions is a metric that can be used to identify the direction that its executives believe that its stock is heading. If several insiders sell shares of their company at once, they may believe that the company will have weak future earnings and that the share price will decline in the near future.
For example, if Microsoft's CEO, CFO, and COO all recently sold shares of Microsoft stock, that would be an indication that there could be unreported news that may negatively affect Microsoft's stock price.
This slideshow lists the 12 companies that have had the highest levels of insider buying within the last 180 days.
#1 - Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $9,906,667.53
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 20
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 57,837
- Who Sold Shares
- Andrew Alford (Insider), Blake Russell (EVP), Charles Thomas Mcmillen (Director), D Geoffrey Armstrong (Director), Gary Weitman (Insider), Jay M Grossman (Director), John R Muse (Director), Lee Ann Gliha (CFO), Michael Biard (COO), Michael Strober (EVP), Perry A Sook (CEO), Rachel Morgan (EVP) and Sean Compton (Insider)
About Nexstar Media Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc operates as a diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across the television and digital platforms in the United States. It owns, operates, programs, or provides sales and other services to various markets; and offers television programming services.
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#2 - Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $19,533,774.85
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 29
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 334,384
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy Bohutinsky (Director), April Underwood (Director), Bradley D Owens (General Counsel), Dan Spaulding (Insider), David A Beitel (CTO), Erik C Blachford (Director), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Lloyd D Frink (Chairman), Susan Daimler (Insider) and Thielke Claire Cormier (Director)
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc operates real estate brands in mobile applications and Websites in the United States. The company offers premier agent and rentals marketplaces, new construction marketplaces, advertising, display advertising, and business technology solutions, as well as dotloop and floor plans. It also provides mortgage originations and the sale of mortgages, and advertising to mortgage lenders and other mortgage professionals; and title and escrow services.
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#3 - Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $19,533,774.85
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 29
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 334,384
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy Bohutinsky (Director), April Underwood (Director), Bradley D Owens (General Counsel), Dan Spaulding (Insider), David A Beitel (CTO), Erik C Blachford (Director), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Lloyd D Frink (Chairman), Susan Daimler (Insider) and Thielke Claire Cormier (Director)
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc operates real estate brands in mobile applications and Websites in the United States. The company offers premier agent and rentals marketplaces, new construction marketplaces, advertising, display advertising, and business technology solutions, as well as dotloop and floor plans. It also provides mortgage originations and the sale of mortgages, and advertising to mortgage lenders and other mortgage professionals; and title and escrow services.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $160,331,864.30
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 32
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 1,327,585
- Who Sold Shares
- Adam Blitzer (COO), Alexis Le-Quoc (CTO), Amit Agarwal (President), David M Obstler (CFO), Julie Richardson (Director), Kerry Acocella (General Counsel), Madre Armelle De (Insider), Matthew Jacobson (Director), Olivier Pomel (CEO), Sean Michael Walters (CRO), Shardul Shah (Director) and Titilope Cole (Director)
About Datadog
Datadog, Inc operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.
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#5 - Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $73,587,125.63
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 50
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 276,147
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy E Weaver (CFO), Brian Millham (COO), Craig Conway (Director), Marc Benioff (CEO), Maynard G Webb Jr (Director), Miguel Milano (Insider), Parker Harris (Insider), R David Schmaier (Insider), Sabastian Niles (Insider), Srinivas Tallapragada (Insider) and Sundeep G Reddy (CAO)
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.
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#6 - Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $5,166,354.43
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 81,390
- Who Sold Shares
- Charles G Kim (CFO), David L Orf (VP), David L Roller (SVP), David W Kemper (Chairman), Douglas D Neff (SVP), John K Handy (EVP), John W Kemper (CEO), Jonathan M Kemper (Director), June Mcallister Fowler (Director), Patricia R Kellerhals (SVP) and Robert S Holmes (EVP)
About Commerce Bancshares
Commerce Bancshares, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank that provides retail, mortgage banking, corporate, investment, trust, and asset management products and services to individuals and businesses in the United States. It operates through three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth.
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#7 - Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $60,757,475.39
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 29
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 621,779
- Who Sold Shares
- Brian Gayle (CAO), Christ Revocable Trust (Major Shareholder), George J Christ (Major Shareholder), James Ralph Scapa (CEO), Jeffrey Marraccini (Insider), Jrs Investments Llc (major shareholder), Mahalingam Srikanth (CTO), R Scapa Declaration Of James (major shareholder), Raoul Maitra (Insider), Ravi Kunju (Insider) and Teresa A Harris (Director)
About Altair Engineering
Altair Engineering Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation and design, high-performance computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Software and Client Engineering Services.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $19,972,626.11
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 265,461
- Who Sold Shares
- Anthony Paul Broersma (EVP), Charles S Miller (VP), Daniel L Florness (CEO), Daniel L Johnson (Director), Holden Lewis (CFO), James C Jansen (EVP), John Lewis Soderberg (VP), Nicholas J Lundquist (Director), Rita J Heise (Director), Sheryl Ann Lisowski (CAO) and William Joseph Drazkowski (Insider)
About Fastenal
Fastenal Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale distribution of industrial and construction supplies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, North America, and internationally. It offers fasteners, and related industrial and construction supplies under the Fastenal name. The company's fastener products include threaded fasteners, bolts, nuts, screws, studs, and related washers that are used in manufactured products and construction projects, as well as in the maintenance and repair of machines.
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#9 - Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $914,981.31
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 20
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 250,805
- Who Sold Shares
- Chinh Chu (Director), Cho Mikael (SVP), Craig Warren Peters (CEO), Daine Marc Weston (VP), Elizabeth Anne Vaughan (Insider), Gene Foca (CMO), Jennifer Leyden (CFO), Kenneth Arrigo Mainardis (SVP), Kjelti Wilkes Kellough (General Counsel), Michael Teaster (Insider) and Nathaniel Gandert (CTO)
About Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc offers creative and editorial visual content solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its products include Getty Images that offers creative and editorial content including stills, music and video which focuses on corporate, agency, and media customers; iStock.com, an e-commerce offering where customers have access to creative stills and video; Unsplash.com, a platform offering free stock photo downloads and paid subscriptions targeted to the high-growth prosumer and semi-professional creator segments; and Unsplash+ that provides access to unique model released content with expanded legal protections.
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#10 - Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $52,539,541.25
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 27
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 106,487
- Who Sold Shares
- Amal M Johnson (Director), Amy L Ladd (Director), Brian Edward Miller (EVP), Craig H Barratt (Director), Gary Loeb (General Counsel), Gary S Guthart (CEO), Henry L Charlton (SVP), Jamie Samath (Insider), Mark Brosius (Insider), Mark Brosius (SVP), Myriam Curet (EVP) and Robert Desantis (EVP)
About Intuitive Surgical
Intuitive Surgical, Inc develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally. The company offers the da Vinci Surgical System that enables complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach; and Ion endoluminal system, which extends its commercial offerings beyond surgery into diagnostic procedures enabling minimally invasive biopsies in the lung.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $231,677,903.65
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 28
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 338,566
- Who Sold Shares
- Anne M Sweeney (Director), David A Hyman (Insider), Gregory K Peters (CEO), Jay C Hoag (Director), Leslie J Kilgore (Director), Reed Hastings (Chairman), Richard N Barton (Director), Spencer Adam Neumann (CFO), Theodore A Sarandos (CEO) and Timothy M Haley (Director)
About Netflix
Netflix, Inc provides entertainment services. It offers TV series, documentaries, feature films, and games across various genres and languages. The company also provides members the ability to receive streaming content through a host of internet-connected devices, including TVs, digital video players, TV set-top boxes, and mobile devices.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $16,078,574.40
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 20
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 120,521
- Who Sold Shares
- Jason Lee Taylor (SVP), Joel M Wine (CFO), John P Lauer (EVP), John Warren Sullivan (SVP), Laura L Rascon (SVP), Leonard P Isotoff (SVP), Matthew J Cox (CEO), Peter T Heilmann (EVP), Richard S Kinney (SVP) and Rusty K Rolfe (EVP)
About Matson
Matson, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of ocean transportation and logistics services. It operates through two segments, Ocean Transportation and Logistics. The Ocean Transportation segment offers ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Japan, Alaska, and Guam, as well as to other island economies in Micronesia.
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#13 - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $313,173,893.82
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 88
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 604,638
- Who Sold Shares
- Aaron Anderson (CAO), Andrew Bosworth (CTO), Christopher K Cox (Insider), Javier Olivan (COO), Jennifer Newstead (Insider), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO), Nicholas Clegg (Insider), Peggy Alford (Director), Sheryl Sandberg (Director) and Susan J Li (CFO)
About Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, Inc engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately.
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