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Insider Weekends – CEO of Snap Sells $50 Million Worth of Stock

  • February 18, 2018

Welcome to edition 400 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying almost doubled last week with insiders purchasing $83.39 million of stock compared to $46.39 million in the week prior. Selling also increased with insiders selling $1.36 billion of stock last week compared to $994.97 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 dropped to 16.36. In other words, insiders sold more than 16 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares favorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 21.45.

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. Post Holdings, Inc. (POST): $78.5

Director William P. Stiritz acquired 100,000 shares of this cereal products company, paying $71.99 per share for a total amount of $7.19 million. Mr. Stiritz increased his stake by 7.08% to 1,512,362 shares with this purchase.

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