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
- $799,300.60
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 13
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 15,355
- Who Bought Shares
- Brian J Willey (CFO), Bryan A Erman (EVP), Christopher P Calvert (COO), Glenn W Stetson (EVP), Joseph Wm Foran (CEO), Monika U Ehrman (Director), Robert Gaines Baty (Director), Robert T Macalik (CAO) and Shelley F Appel (Director)
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
- $57,822.90
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 15
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,240
- Who Bought Shares
- Horras Betty A Baudler (Director), 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 - Auburn National Bancorporation (NASDAQ:AUBN)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $46,646.62
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 9
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 2,576
- Who Bought Shares
- David A Hedges (CEO), David E Housel (Director), Michael A Lawler (Director), Shannon O'donnell (SVP), William F Ham Jr (Director) and William James Iv Walker (CFO)
About Auburn National Bancorporation
Auburn National Bancorporation, Inc operates as the bank holding company for AuburnBank that provides various banking products and services in East Alabama. The company offers checking, savings, and transaction deposit accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides commercial, financial, agricultural, real estate construction, and consumer loan products; and other financial services.
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#4 - Delek Logistics Partners (NYSE:DKL)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $531,839.50
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 13,644
- Who Bought Shares
- Avigal Soreq (President), Ezra Uzi Yemin (Chairman), Joseph Israel (EVP), Odely Sakazi (SVP), Reuven Spiegel (CFO) and Sherri Anne Brillon (Director)
About Delek Logistics Partners
Delek Logistics Partners, LP provides gathering, pipeline, transportation, and other services for crude oil, intermediates, refined products, natural gas, storage, wholesale marketing, terminalling water disposal and recycling customers in the United States. The Gathering and Processing segment consists of pipelines, tanks, and offloading facilities that provide crude oil and natural gas gathering and processing, water disposal and recycling, and storage services, as well as crude oil transportation services to third parties.
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#5 - FutureFuel (NYSE:FF)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $516,848.80
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 7
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 111,302
- Who Bought Shares
- Charles W Lyon (Insider), Mckinlay Thomas (CEO), Paul Manheim (Director), Roeland Polet (CEO), Ronald J Kruszewski (Director) and Rose Sparks (CFO)
About FutureFuel
FutureFuel Corp., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells diversified chemical, bio-based fuel, and bio-based specialty chemical products in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Chemicals and Biofuels. The Chemicals segment provides various custom chemicals that are used in the coatings, chemical intermediates, industrial and consumer cleaning, oil and gas, and specialty polymers industries; and performance chemicals, such as polymer modifiers, glycerin products, and various specialty chemicals and solvents.
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#6 - Kiora Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KPRX)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $64,388.79
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 6
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 14,041
- Who Bought Shares
- Aron Shapiro (Director), Brian M Strem (CEO), Eric Joseph Daniels (Insider), Erin Parsons (Director), Lisa Walters-Hoffert (Director) and Melissa Tosca (EVP)
About Kiora Pharmaceuticals
Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapies for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases in the United States. Its lead product is KIO-301, a potential vision-restoring small molecule, which is in Phase 1b clinical trial that acts as a photoswitch to restore vision in patients with inherited and age-related degenerative retinal diseases.
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#7 - Science Applications International (NYSE:SAIC)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $450,813.80
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 6
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 3,865
- Who Bought Shares
- Barbara Supplee (EVP), James Joshua Jackson (EVP), Michelle A O'hara (EVP), Prabu Natarajan (CFO), Srinivas Attili (EVP) and Vincent P Difronzo (EVP)
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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#8 - Shenandoah Telecommunications (NASDAQ:SHEN)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $444,420.92
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 11
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 29,267
- Who Bought Shares
- Christopher E French (CEO), Edward H Mckay (COO), Glenn E Lytle Jr (SVP), James J Volk (CFO), Kenneth L Quaglio (Director) and W Flora John (Director)
About Shenandoah Telecommunications
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of broadband communication services and cell tower colocation space in the Mid-Atlantic portion of the United States. It operates in two segments, Broadband and Tower. The company Broadband segment offers broadband, video, and voice services to residential and commercial customers in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky through hybrid fiber coaxial cable under the Shentel brand; and fiber optic services under the Glo Fiber brand name.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $572,928.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 6
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 11,936
- Who Bought Shares
- Eric M Pillmore (Director), Jeremy C Wensinger (CEO), Josephine F Bjornson (Insider), Michael James Smith (Treasurer), Shawn Mural (CFO) and William Boyd Noon (CAO)
About V2X
V2X, Inc provides critical mission solutions and support services to defense clients worldwide. It offers a suite of integrated solutions across the operations and logistics, aerospace, training, and technology markets to national security, defense, civilian, and international clients. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia.
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $36,025.08
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 14
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 992
- Who Bought Shares
- Alexandra C Chiaruttini (CAO), Joseph Thomas Hand (CEO), Mark S Snyder (VP), Matthew E Poff (CFO), Steven R Rasmussen (Director) and Vernon L Bracey (VP)
About York Water
The York Water Company impounds, purifies, and distributes drinking water. It owns and operates three wastewater collection systems; ten wastewater collection and treatment systems; and two reservoirs, including Lake Williams and Lake Redman, which hold approximately 2.2 billion gallons of water. The company also operates a 15-mile pipeline from the Susquehanna River to Lake Redman; and owns satellite groundwater systems in York, Adams, and Lancaster Counties, as well as two impounding dams on primary system located in York and Springfield Townships.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $619,671.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 18,400
- Who Bought Shares
- Jeff Kuai (Insider), Joey Wat (CEO), Leila Zhang (CTO), Robert Blaine Aiken Jr (Director) and Warton Wang (Insider)
About Yum China
Yum China Holdings, Inc owns, operates, and franchises restaurants in the People's Republic of China. The company operates through KFC, Pizza Hut, and All Other segments. It operates restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Lavazza, Little Sheep, and Huang Ji Huang concepts. The company also operates V-Gold Mall, a mobile e-commerce platform to sell products; and offers online food deliver services.
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- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $443,770.54
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 10
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 515,017
- Who Bought Shares
- Daniel J Nova (Director), Ian Friedman (Director), Jack R Lazar (Director), Noam Paranksy (Director) and Noam Paransky (Director)
About ThredUp
ThredUp Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates an online resale platform in the United States and internationally. Its platform enables consumers to buy and sell primarily secondhand apparel, shoes, and accessories. ThredUp Inc was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $515,100.00
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 30,300
- Who Bought Shares
- Charles Alexander Bunch (Insider), Janet S Wong (Director), Janice E Zwinggi (CFO), Katherine C Nolan (COO) and Richard F Bunch III (CEO)
About TWFG
TWFG, Inc operates an independent distribution platform for personal and commercial insurance products in the United States. Its personal and commercial insurance products include auto, home, renters, life, health, motorcycle, umbrella, boat, recreational vehicle, flood, wind, event, luxury item, general liability, property, business auto, workers' compensation, business owner policy, and professional liability insurance products, as well as commercial bonds and group benefits.
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#14 - Martin Midstream Partners (NASDAQ:MMLP)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $626.43
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 157
- Who Bought Shares
- Chris H Booth (VP), Randall Tauscher (COO), Robert D Bondurant (CEO), Ruben S Martin (Director) 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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#15 - Mid Penn Bancorp (NASDAQ:MPB)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $287,743.41
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 9,783
- Who Bought Shares
- Albert J Evans (Director), Joan E Dickinson (Insider), Kimberly J Brumbaugh (Director), Robert A Abel (Director) and Rory G Ritrievi (CEO)
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.
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#16 - Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NASDAQ:NFBK)
- Dollar Amount of Shares Purchased
- $295,761.16
- Number of Insider Purchases in the Last 180 Days
- 5
- Volume of Shares Purchased
- 38,061
- Who Bought Shares
- Annette Catino (Director), David Fasanella (EVP), Patrick Louis Ryan (Director), Steven M Klein (CEO) and William R Jacobs (EVP)
About Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)
Northfield Bancorp, Inc (Staten Island, NY) operates as the bank holding company for Northfield Bank that provides various banking products and services primarily to individuals and corporate customers. It accepts various deposits products, including certificates of deposit, passbook, statement, and money market savings accounts; transaction deposit accounts comprising negotiable orders of withdrawal accounts, and interest and non-interest-bearing checking accounts; and brokered deposits.
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