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Insider Weekends – Chairman of Southern Copper Sells Over $35 Million Worth of Stock

  • August 6, 2017

Welcome to edition 372 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying declined sharply with insiders purchasing $29.30 million of stock compared to $94.97 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand more than doubled with insiders selling $1.55 billion of stock last week compared to $651.35 million in the week prior.

Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by dividing the total insider sales in a given week by total insider purchases that week. The adjusted ratio for last week went up to 52.91. In other words, insiders sold almost 53 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares unfavorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 6.86.

Note: As mentioned in the first post in this series, certain industries have their preferred metrics such as same store sales for retailers, funds from operations (FFO) for REITs and revenue per available room (RevPAR) for hotels that provide a better basis for comparison than simple valuation metrics. However metrics like Price/Earnings, Price/Sales and Enterprise Value/EBITDA included below should provide a good starting point for analyzing the majority of stocks.

Notable Insider Buys:

1. Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI): $102.02

Director Landis J. Martin acquired 30,000 shares of this wireless tower REIT, paying $100.64 per share for a total amount of $3.02 million. Mr. Martin increased his stake by 43.27% to 99,335 shares with this purchase. 4,000 of these shares were purchased indirectly by Mr. Martin’s spouse.

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