Welcome to edition 419 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying more than doubled last week with insiders purchasing $226.74 million of stock compared to $100.92 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand decreased with insiders selling $1.43 billion of stock last week compared to $1.85 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 6.3. In other words, insiders sold more than 6 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares favorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 18.37.
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. DDR Corp. (DDR): $17.9
Director Alexander Otto acquired 1,761,741 shares of this shopping center REIT, paying $17.86 per share for a total amount of $31.46 million. Mr. Otto increased his stake by 5.83% to 31,990,657 shares with this purchase.
We reported last week that Mr. Otto’s $20.84 million purchase was his largest purchase in the span of a week since we started insider tracking data eight years ago. He topped that this week with his $31.46 million purchase, which brings his total purchases for the second quarter of 2018 to $95.96 million.
The spinoff of a division of the company called Retail Value Inc. (RVI) with all its Puerto Rico assets was supposed to occur on or before July 1st but I have not seen any news yet to that effect. We wrote the following about Mr. Otto last week,
Alexander Otto is the CEO of closely-held real estate management company ECE Projektmanagement. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany and manages about 200 shopping centers. He has been buying DDR stock actively since late February and following his latest purchases, owns about 16.37% of the company.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for DDR Corp. here.
P/E: N/A | Forward P/E: 47.11 | Industry P/E: 33.16 |
P/S: 3.69 | Price/Book: 1.47 | EV/EBITDA: 12.94 |
Market Cap: $3.31B | Avg. Daily Volume: 3,674,179 | 52 Week Range: $13.26 – $21.74 |
2. Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARPO): $4.15
Director Muneer A. Satter acquired 1,818,182 shares of this biotech company, paying $3.85 per share for a total amount of $7 million. These shares were purchased indirectly through a trust.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. here.
P/E: N/A | Forward P/E: -5.06098 | Industry P/E: 85.7 |
P/S: N/A | Price/Book: 10.0973 | EV/EBITDA: -4.153 |
Market Cap: $112.66M | Avg. Daily Volume: 40,217 | 52 Week Range: $3.29 – $6.75 |
3. Entercom Communications Corp. (ETM): $7.55
Chairman Emeritus Joseph M. Field acquired 370,000 shares of this radio broadcasting company, paying $7.79 per share for a total amount of $2.88 million. These shares were purchased indirectly through a trust.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Entercom Communications Corp. here.
P/E: 2.58 | Forward P/E: 7.19 | Industry P/E: 24.17 |
P/S: 1.34 | Price/Book: 0.62 | EV/EBITDA: 25.29 |
Market Cap: $1.07B | Avg. Daily Volume: 2,243,989 | 52 Week Range: $6.3 – $12.43 |
4. OFG Bancorp (OFG): $14.05
Shares of this regional bank were acquired by 2 insiders:
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for OFG Bancorp here.
P/E: 15.27 | Forward P/E: 10.98 | Industry P/E: 19.21 |
P/S: 2.27 | Price/Book: 0.8 | EV/EBITDA: N/A |
Market Cap: $617.75M | Avg. Daily Volume: 291,207 | 52 Week Range: $7.8 – $14.95 |
5. Green Brick Partners, Inc. (GRBK): $9.8
Shares of this home builder were acquired by 5 insiders:
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Green Brick Partners, Inc. here.
P/E: 24.94 | Forward P/E: 7.26 | Industry P/E: 12.1 |
P/S: 1.03 | Price/Book: 1.16 | EV/EBITDA: 9.17 |
Market Cap: $497.06M | Avg. Daily Volume: 183,245 | 52 Week Range: $8.9 – $12.5 |
You can view the full list of purchases from this Insider Buying page.
Notable Insider Sales:
1. Facebook, Inc. (FB): $194.32
Shares of Facebook were sold by 2 insiders:
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Facebook, Inc. here.
P/E: 32.17 | Forward P/E: 21.03 | Industry P/E: 34.28 |
P/S: 12.62 | Price/Book: 7.27 | EV/EBITDA: 21.07 |
Market Cap: $562.48B | Avg. Daily Volume: 24,011,687 | 52 Week Range: $147.8 – $203.55 |
2. Twitter, Inc. (TWTR): $43.67
Shares of Twitter were sold by 2 insiders:
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Twitter, Inc. here.
P/E: 2183.5 | Forward P/E: 51.38 | Industry P/E: 34.28 |
P/S: 12.7927 | Price/Book: 6.28165 | EV/EBITDA: 68.212 |
Market Cap: $32.75B | Avg. Daily Volume: 29,047,151 | 52 Week Range: $15.67 – $47.79 |
3. NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA): $236.9
Director Harvey C. Jones sold 100,000 shares of this semiconductor company for $242.11, generating $24.21 million from the sale.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for NVIDIA Corporation here.
P/E: 39.38 | Forward P/E: 30.1 | Industry P/E: 21.07 |
P/S: 13.09 | Price/Book: 18.64 | EV/EBITDA: 35.34 |
Market Cap: $143.8B | Avg. Daily Volume: 12,456,918 | 52 Week Range: $138.58 – $269.2 |
4. American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (AEO): $23.25
Exec Chairman & CEO Jay L. Schottenstein sold 842,206 shares of this apparel chain for $25.42, generating $21.41 million from the sale. These shares were sold indirectly by various trust and entities.
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. here.
P/E: 19.18 | Forward P/E: 14.53 | Industry P/E: 35.22 |
P/S: 1.06 | Price/Book: 3.39 | EV/EBITDA: 7.89 |
Market Cap: $4.11B | Avg. Daily Volume: 4,336,875 | 52 Week Range: $10.23 – $25.78 |
5. Mimecast Limited (MIME): $41.21
Shares of this email and data security company were sold by 4 insiders:
You can view the list of recent insider transactions for Mimecast Limited here.
P/E: N/A | Forward P/E: 82.42 | Industry P/E: 34.28 |
P/S: 9.28 | Price/Book: 23.89 | EV/EBITDA: 182.78 |
Market Cap: $2.43B | Avg. Daily Volume: 300,598 | 52 Week Range: $25.12 – $46.87 |
You can view the full list of sales from this Insider Sales page.
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