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Insider Weekends – Starboard Value Increases Its Stake in Perrigo

  • May 20, 2018

Welcome to edition 413 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying increased last week with insiders purchasing $205.39 million of stock compared to $160.97 million in the week prior. Selling also increased with insiders selling $2.02 billion of stock last week compared to $1.56 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 slightly to 9.82. In other words, insiders sold almost 10 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares unfavorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 9.7.

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. Perrigo Company plc (PRGO): $76.21

Director Jeffrey C. Smith acquired 400,000 shares of this pharmaceutical company, paying $75.45 per share for a total amount of $30.18 million. These shares were purchased indirectly by Starboard Value Fund.

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