An insider trade occurs when a corporate executive (such as a CEO, CFO or COO) that has non-public information about a company buys or sells shares of that company's stock. Company insiders are required by law to regularly report their stock purchases and sales to the SEC.
Tracking a company's insider trades is a metric that can be used to identify the direction that the company's executives believes that the company is headed. If a number of insiders purchase more shares of their company, they may believe that the company will have strong future earnings and that the share price will increase in the near future.
For example, if Microsoft's CEO, CFO and COO all recently purchased additional shares of Microsoft stock, that would be an indication that there could be unreported news that may positively effect Microsoft's stock price in the near future.
This slideshow lists the 15 companies that have had the highest levels of insider buying within the last 180 days.
#1 - Matador Resources (NYSE:MTDR)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $1,333,617.80
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 19
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 25,635
- Who Bought Shares
- Brian J Willey (CFO), Christopher P Calvert (COO), Glenn W Stetson (EVP), Joseph Wm Foran (CEO), Monika U Ehrman (Director), Paul W Harvey (Director), Robert T Macalik (CAO), Susan M Ward (Director), Timothy E Parker (Director), Van H Singleton II (Insider) and William Thomas Elsener (EVP)
About Matador Resources
Matador Resources Company, an independent energy company, engages in the exploration, development, production, and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States. It operates through two segments, Exploration and Production; and Midstream. The company primarily holds interests in the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $61,172.16
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,554
- Who Bought Shares
- Dan E Johnson (Insider), Jeffrey K Putzier (Insider), Justin C Clausen (CFO), Kevin L Swartz (Director), Michael A Wilson (EVP), Michelle R Cassabaum (Director), Patrick G Hagan (Director) and Scott T Bauer (Insider)
About Ames National
Ames National Corporation operates as a multi-bank holding company that provides banking products and services primarily in Boone, Clarke, Hancock, Marshall, Polk, Story, and Union counties in central, north central, and south-central Iowa. The company accepts various deposit products, including checking and savings accounts; and time deposits, such as money market accounts and certificates of deposit.
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#3 - Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $150,403.94
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 8,237
- Who Bought Shares
- Dorothea D Silva (Director), James J Kim (CEO), James W Lokey (Director), Jeffrey Michael Martin (EVP), Martin E Plourd (President), Robert Bartlein (Director) and Shannon R Avrett (EVP)
About Community West Bancshares
Community West Bancshares operates as the bank holding company for Community West Bank, N.A. that provides various financial products and services in California. The company offers deposit products, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and fixed rate and fixed maturity certificates of deposits; and cash management products.
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#4 - Science Applications International (NYSE:SAIC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $414,489.65
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,685
- Who Bought Shares
- Barbara Supplee (EVP), Carolyn B Handlon (Director), Garth Graham (Director), Hilary Hageman (EVP), John K Tien Jr (Director), Milford W Mcguirt (Director) and Toni Townes-Whitley (CEO)
About Science Applications International
Science Applications International Corporation provides technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily in the United States. The company's offerings include IT modernization; digital engineering; artificial intelligence; Weapon systems support design, build, modify, integrate, and sustain weapon systems; and end-to-end services, such as design, development, integration, deployment, management and operations, sustainment, and security of its customers' IT infrastructure, as well as training and simulation and ground vehicles support which integrates, modify, upgrades, and sustains ground vehicles for nation's armed forces.
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#5 - Myers Industries (NYSE:MYE)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $257,560.24
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 8
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 21,472
- Who Bought Shares
- Aaron M Schapper (CEO), Bruce M Lisman (Director), Dave Basque (CEO), Lori A Lutey (Director), William A Foley (Director) and Yvette Dapremont Bright (Director)
About Myers Industries
Myers Industries, Inc engages in distribution of tire service supplies in Ohio. It operates through two segments, The Material Handling and Distribution. The Material Handling segment offers pallets, small parts bins, bulk shipping containers, and OEM parts, as well as storage and organization, and custom plastic products; and injection molded, rotationally molded or blow molded products, consumer fuel containers and tanks for water, fuel, and waste handling.
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#6 - Martin Midstream Partners (NASDAQ:MMLP)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $1,385.38
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 10
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 372
- Who Bought Shares
- Chris H Booth (VP), Randall Tauscher (COO), Robert D Bondurant (CEO), Ruben S Martin (Director), Scot A Shoup (VP) and Sharon L Taylor (CFO)
About Martin Midstream Partners
Martin Midstream Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries, provides terminalling, processing, storage, and packaging services for petroleum products and by-products primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Terminalling and Storage, Transportation, Sulfur Services, and Specialty Products.
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#7 - Mid Penn Bancorp (NASDAQ:MPB)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $552,005.83
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 18,688
- Who Bought Shares
- Albert J Evans (Director), Joan E Dickinson (Insider), Maureen M Gathagan (Director), Robert A Abel (Director), Rory G Ritrievi (CEO) and Soto Matthew G De (Director)
About Mid Penn Bancorp
Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Mid Penn Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals, partnerships, non-profit organizations, and corporations. The company offers various time and demand deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, clubs, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts.
More about Mid Penn Bancorp
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $512,213.82
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 15
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 98,898
- Who Bought Shares
- Aron R English (Major Shareholder), John Allen Baugh (Director), Jonathan Lee Kelly (Director), Kimberly Bullock Gatling (Director), Mary Elizabeth Hunsberger (Insider) and Robert George Iv Culp (CEO)
About Culp
Culp, Inc manufactures, sources, markets, and sells mattress fabrics, sewn covers, and cut and sewn kits for use in mattresses, foundations, and other bedding products in the United States, North America, the Far East, Asia, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Mattress Fabrics and Upholstery Fabrics.
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#9 - Finward Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNWD)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $199,667.67
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 7,279
- Who Bought Shares
- Benjamin J Bochnowski (CEO), Benjamin Louis Schmitt (CFO), Carolyn M Burke (Director), Martin P Alwin (Director), Robert T Lowry (EVP) and Robert W Youman (Director)
About Finward Bancorp
Finward Bancorp operates as the holding company for Peoples Bank that provides various banking products and services. The company's deposit products include non-interest- and interest-bearing demand accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificate accounts, and retirement savings plans.
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#10 - Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $253,520.10
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 11,208
- Who Bought Shares
- An Hui (COO), James M Jenkins (CEO), Laurel A Yartz (Insider), Nikki Hamblin (Director) and Roger D Shannon (CFO)
About Lakeland Industries
Lakeland Industries, Inc manufactures and sells industrial protective clothing and accessories for the industrial and public protective clothing market worldwide. It offers firefighting and heat protective apparel to protect against fire; high-end chemical protective suits to provide protection from highly concentrated, toxic and/or lethal chemicals, and biological toxins; and limited use/disposable protective clothing, such as coveralls, laboratory coats, shirts, pants, hoods, aprons, sleeves, arm guards, caps, and smocks.
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#11 - Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $3,583,561.25
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 12
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 1,795,883
- Who Bought Shares
- Charles R Jr Schwab (Director), Charles R Schwab (Major Shareholder), Craig M Hurlbert (CEO), Kathleen Valiasek (CFO) and Travis M Joyner (CTO)
About Local Bounti
Local Bounti Corporation grows and packs fresh greens in the United States. It produces lettuce, herbs, and loose-leaf lettuce. The company sells its products to food retailers and food service distributors. Local Bounti Corporation was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Montana.
#12 - Lyell Immunopharma (NASDAQ:LYEL)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $449,508.40
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 768,640
- Who Bought Shares
- Charles W Newton (CFO), Lynn Seely (CEO), Otis W Brawley (Director), Richard Klausner (Director) and Sumant Ramachandra (Director)
About Lyell Immunopharma
Lyell Immunopharma, Inc, a clinical-stage cell therapy company, develops T cell reprogramming technologies for patients with solid tumors. The company develops therapies using an ex vivo genetic reprogramming technologies, such as c Jun overexpression and NR4A3 gene knockout, to endow resistance to T cell exhaustion; and an ex vivo epigenetic reprogramming technologies, including Epi R to generate population of T cells with durable stemness, and Stim R, a proprietary synthetic cell mimetic.
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#13 - The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (NASDAQ:CUBA)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $426,861.81
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 16
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 164,871
- Who Bought Shares
- Brigitta Suzanne Herzfeld (Director), Erik Mervin Herzfeld (President), John A Gelety (Director), Ryan M Paylor (Portfolio Manager) and Thomas J Herzfeld (Chairman)
About The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund
The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc The fund is managed by Herzfeld/Cuba. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund employing fundamental analysis investing in stocks of companies that are likely to benefit from economic, political, structural and technological developments in the countries in the Caribbean Basin, which consist of Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Aruba, Haiti, the Netherlands Antilles, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
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#14 - Perspective Therapeutics (NYSE:CATX)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $513,132.40
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 183,266
- Who Bought Shares
- Heidi Henson (Director), Johan M Spoor (CEO), Jonathan Robert Hunt (CFO), Juan Graham (CFO) and Robert F Williamson III (Director)
About Perspective Therapeutics
Perspective Therapeutics, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops precision-targeted alpha therapies (TAT) for oncology that treats cancer patients across multiple tumor types comprising metastatic disease. The company discovers, designs, and develop its initial programs candidates consists of VMT-a-NET, that is currently in Phase 1/2a clinical trials for patients with unresectable or metastatic somatostatin receptor type 2 (SSTR2) expressing tumors that have not previously received peptide-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy, such as Lutathera, a beta-emitting therapy; and VMT01, which is currently in Phase 1/2a clinical trials for second-line or later treatment of patients with progressive melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) positive metastatic melanoma.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $2,660,275.53
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 45,010
- Who Bought Shares
- Andrew Lynn Asher (CFO), H James Dallas (Director), Sarah London (CEO), Theodore R Samuels II (Director) and Thomas Greco (Director)
About Centene
Centene Corporation operates as a healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured families, commercial organizations, and military families in the United States. The company operates through Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other segments. The Medicaid segment offers health plan coverage, including medicaid expansion, aged, blind, disabled, children's health insurance program, foster care, medicare-medicaid plans, long-term services and support.
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#16 - Avadel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AVDL)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $526,363.04
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 8
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 55,579
- Who Bought Shares
- Geoffrey Michael Glass (Director), Gregory J Divis (CEO), Linda Palczuk (Director), Peter J Thornton (Director) and Thomas S Mchugh (CFO)
About Avadel Pharmaceuticals
Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc operates as a biopharmaceutical company in the United States. Its lead product candidate is LUMRYZ, a formulation of sodium oxybate, which is in a Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness or cataplexy in adults with narcolepsy. The company was formerly known as Flamel Technologies SA and changed its name to Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc in January 2017.
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