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
- $30,715,105.19
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 22
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 187,560
- Who Sold Shares
- Andrew Alford (Insider), Bernadette S Aulestia (Director), Blake Russell (EVP), Brett Jenkins (Insider), Charles Thomas Mcmillen (Director), D Geoffrey Armstrong (Director), Gary Weitman (Insider), Jay M Grossman (Director), John R Muse (Director), Lee Ann Gliha (CFO), Lisbeth Mcnabb (Director), 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
- $22,176,242.61
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 32
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 361,688
- 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), Errol G Samuelson (Insider), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Jun Choo (COO), 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
- $22,176,242.61
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 32
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 361,688
- 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), Errol G Samuelson (Insider), Jennifer Rock (CAO), Jeremy Hofmann (CFO), Jeremy Wacksman (CEO), Jun Choo (COO), 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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#4 - Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $10,894,776.57
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 21
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 4,340,448
- Who Sold Shares
- Chinh Chu (Director), Cho Mikael (SVP), Craig Warren Peters (CEO), Daine Marc Weston (VP), Elizabeth Anne Vaughan (Insider), Gene Foca (CMO), Grant Farhall (Insider), Jennifer Leyden (CFO), Kenneth Arrigo Mainardis (SVP), Kjelti Wilkes Kellough (General Counsel), Nathaniel Gandert (CTO), Neuberger Berman Group Llc (Major Shareholder) and Peter Orlowsky (SVP)
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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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $6,669,472.64
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 19
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 409,564
- Who Sold Shares
- Barry C Huber (Director), Christina Marie Hoffman (VP), David Benjamin Bawel (CAO), David Wayne Sponic (SVP), Jeffrey Dean Miller (CFO), Jon Marshall Mahan (Director), Kevin Gerard Burke (Insider), Kristi Spencer Altshuler (VP), Sanjay Pandey (VP), Sewell Trezevant Moore Jr (Director), Vincent Anthony Viozzi (VP) and William Daniel Delamater (EVP)
About Donegal Group
Donegal Group Inc, an insurance holding company, provides property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals. It operates through three segments: Investment Function, Personal Lines of Insurance, and Commercial Lines of Insurance. The company offers private passenger automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, as well as protection against loss from damage to automobiles; and homeowners policies, which provide coverage for damage to residences and their contents from a range of perils, including fire, lightning, windstorm, and theft, as well as liability of the insured arising from injury to other persons or their property.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $27,108,219.63
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 19
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 30,455
- Who Sold Shares
- Adaire Fox-Martin (CEO), Brandi Galvin Morandi (Insider), Charles J Meyers (Chairman), Christopher B Paisley (Director), Jonathan Lin (EVP), Keith D Taylor (CFO), Kurt Pletcher (Insider), Meredith Williamson (insider), Michael Earl Campbell (Insider), Raouf Abdel (EVP), Scott Crenshaw (EVP) and Simon Miller (CAO)
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company . Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
#7 - Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $21,179,263.79
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 22
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 186,011
- Who Sold Shares
- Douglas Gregory Rauch (Director), Dustin Hamilton (Insider), Hari K Avula (Director), Jack Sinclair (CEO), Joe Fortunato (Director), Joel D Anderson (Director), John Scott Neal (Insider), Joseph D O'leary (Director), Joseph L Hurley (Insider), Kristen E Blum (Director), Stacy W Hilgendorf (VP) and Timmi Zalatoris (Insider)
About Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retailing of fresh, natural, and organic food products under the Sprouts brand in the United States. It offers perishable product categories, including fresh produce, meat and meat alternatives, seafood, deli, bakery, floral, and dairy and dairy alternatives; and non-perishable product categories, such as grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk items, frozen foods, beer and wine, and natural health and body care.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $281,522,728.53
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 28
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 381,909
- 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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#9 - Gartner (NYSE:IT)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $51,842,987.54
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 18
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 100,747
- Who Sold Shares
- Akhil Jain (EVP), Alwyn Dawkins (EVP), Anne Sutherland Fuchs (Director), Claire Herkes (EVP), Craig Safian (CFO), Eugene A Hall (CEO), James C Smith (Director), Karen E Dykstra (Director), Scott Hensel (EVP), William James Wartinbee III (EVP) and Yvonne Genovese (EVP)
About Gartner
Gartner, Inc operates as a research and advisory company in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research, Conferences, and Consulting. The Research segment delivers its research primarily through a subscription service that include on-demand access to published research content, data and benchmarks, and direct access to a network of research experts.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $158,270,766.32
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 56
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 3,455,603
- Who Sold Shares
- Adam Eltoukhy (Insider), Dominic Phillips (Insider), Gc Venture Viii-B, Llc (major shareholder), Horowitz Lsv Fund I Andreessen (Major Shareholder), James Andrew Munk (CAO), John Bicket (Insider), Jonathan Chadwick (Director), Lara Caimi (Insider), Parallel Fund Iv LP Ah (Major Shareholder), Sanjit Biswas (CEO), Sanjit Biswas (Insider) and Sanjit Biswas (Major Shareholder)
About Samsara
Samsara Inc provides solutions that connects physical operations data to its connected operations cloud in the United States and internationally. The company's Connected Operations Cloud includes Data Platform, which ingests, aggregates, and enriches data from its IoT devices and has embedded capabilities for AI, workflows and analytics, alerts, API connections, and data security and privacy.
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#11 - Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NASDAQ:KTOS)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $4,297,077.09
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 32
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 170,519
- Who Sold Shares
- Benjamin M Goodwin (SVP), David M Carter (Insider), De Burgreen Maria Cervantes (VP), Deanna H Lund (CFO), Marie Mendoza (SVP), Phillip D Carrai (Insider), Scott I Anderson (Director), Stacey G Rock (Insider), Steven S Fendley (Insider) and Thomas E Iv Mills (Insider)
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc operates as a technology company that addresses the defense, national security, and commercial markets. It operates through two segments, Kratos Government Solutions and Unmanned Systems. The company offers ground systems for satellites and space vehicles, including software for command and control, telemetry, and tracking and control; jet-powered unmanned aerial drone systems, hypersonic vehicles, and rocket systems; propulsion systems for drones, missiles, loitering munitions, supersonic systems, spacecraft, and launch systems; command, control, communication, computing, combat, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance; and microwave electronic products for missile, radar, missile defense, space, and satellite; counter unmanned aircraft systems, directed energy, communication and other systems, and virtual and augmented reality training systems for the warfighter.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $14,993,901.53
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 17
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 3,331,005
- Who Sold Shares
- Brendan Sheehey (General Counsel), Carla Vernon (CEO), David Loretta (CFO), James D White (Director), Jessica Warren (Director), Jonathan Mayle (SVP), Katherine Barton (Insider), Shared Abacus Lp Thc (Major Shareholder), Stephen Winchell (EVP) and Thomas Sternweis (SVP)
About Honest
The Honest Company, Inc manufactures and sells diapers and wipes, skin and personal care, and household and wellness products. The company also offers baby clothing and nursery bedding products. It sells its products through digital and retail sales channels, such as its website and third-party ecommerce sites, as well as brick and mortar retailers.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $19,240,434.15
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 12
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 254,033
- Who Sold Shares
- Anthony Paul Broersma (EVP), Charles S Miller (VP), Daniel L Florness (CEO), Daniel L Johnson (Director), Holden Lewis (CFO), 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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