Stocks With Big Insider Buying

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Insiders are the officers and directors of companies, along with the owners of 10% or more of the outstanding shares of company. When they buy a stock, check out the stock, as there can be only one reason why purchases would be made; because they think the stock is a buying opportunity. Here are some stocks with significant buying by insiders.

Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN) is an onshore contract drilling company. Recently, two of the officers bought almost $2 million in shares each, and the third insider bought almost $4 million worth of the stock. The stock trades at 20 times earnings, and pays a dividend of 2.1%. The company announced earnings today announced earnings of 6 cents a share for the first quarter, beeating analysts' estimates of 3 cents a share.

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) had some recent inside buying also. One officer bought over $260,000 in stock, and the other officer bought over $370,000 in stock. The stock trades at 45 times trailing earnings, and 31 times forward earnings. The company recently reported adjusted earnings per share of $3.88, a huge increase of 47%.

Cidara Therapeutics (CDTX) a biopharmaceutical company, had a couple of large insider purchases. A director bought approximately $3.2 million of the shares and a 10% owner bought a similar amount.

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3 Stocks with Lots of Insider Buying

One way to look for potential stocks to buy is to see who else is buying. And not just looking at any buyers of the stock, but the insiders. An insider is generally a top executive, a director, or an owner of 10% or more of the shares. If an insider sells a stock, it could be for one of many reasons: raising money to buy a house, estate planning purposes, paying for their kids college education, diversification, are just a few of the possibilities.

Yet if an insider buys stock, it is only for one reason. It means that he or she believes the stock will go up in value. And an insider probably has a better idea about the stocks potential than the average investor.

So who's been buying what? Alico Inc. (ALCO), a company in the agribusiness and land management business, has had eight buy transactions during the last couple weeks. Two directors have purchased over $4 million of the stock. Alice trades at 26 times trailing earnings and pays a small dividend of 0.5%. Revenues for the latest reported quarter were up 7.8%.


Interestingly, three insiders bought shares of Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR), which owns oil and natural gas properties. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 26, and pays a beefy yield of 10.1%. The three insiders, including the CEO and two executive VPs, bought over $960,000 of the stock as reported this week.


One of the directors of Vince Holding (VNCE), a contemporary fashion brands company, bought over $3 million of the company's stock, with three different purchases recently. The stock trades at 18 times trailing earnings and 14 times forward earnings.

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Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com