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
- $16,301,251.01
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 18
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 96,647
- 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.
Read More
#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.
Read More
#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.
Read More
#4 - Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $5,689,274.01
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 19
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 89,010
- Who Sold Shares
- Charles G Kim (CFO), David L Orf (VP), David L Roller (SVP), David W Kemper (Chairman), Derrick Brooks (SVP), Douglas D Neff (SVP), John K Handy (EVP), John W Kemper (CEO), Jonathan M Kemper (Director), June Mcallister Fowler (Director), Kevin G Barth (EVP), 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.
Read More
- 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.
Read More
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $16,188,337.24
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 18,441
- 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 - Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $11,002,481.31
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 22
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 4,351,305
- 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), Nathaniel Gandert (CTO) and Neuberger Berman Group Llc (Major Shareholder)
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.
Read More
#8 - Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $21,248,495.21
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 22
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 188,790
- 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.
Read More
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $178,181,624.62
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 21
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 916,844
- Who Sold Shares
- Deeanne King (EVP), G Michael Sievert (CEO), Jon Freier (Insider), Letitia A Long (Director), Mark Wolfe Nelson (EVP), Michael J Katz (Insider), Nestor Cano (EVP), Peter Osvaldik (CFO), Raul Marcelo Claure (Director), Srikant M Datar (Director) and Telekom Ag Deutsche (Director)
About T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides mobile communications services in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. The company offers voice, messaging, and data services to customers in the postpaid, prepaid, and wholesale and other services. It also provides wireless devices, including smartphones, wearables, tablets, home broadband routers, and other mobile communication devices, as well as wireless devices and accessories; financing through equipment installment plans; reinsurance for device insurance policies and extended warranty contracts; leasing through JUMP! On Demand; and High Speed Internet services.
Read More
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $259,176,158.51
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 27
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 362,203
- 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.
Read More
#11 - Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $50,541,679.95
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 26
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 101,310
- 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 (CFO), 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.
Read More
#12 - 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.
Read More
#13 - Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Sold
- $422,050,742.67
- Number of Insider Stock Sales in the Last 180 Days
- 46
- Volume of Shares Sold
- 1,255,632
- Who Sold Shares
- Amy E Weaver (CFO), Brian Millham (COO), G Mason Morfit (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.
Read More
More Investing Slideshows:
