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Welcome to edition 451 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying more than doubled again last week with insiders purchasing $79.47 million of stock compared to $37.61 million in the week prior. Selling also increased with insiders selling $1.51 billion of stock last week compared to $831.23 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 19.02. In other words, insiders sold more than 19 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares favorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 22.1.
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. Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI): $18.02
Executive Chairman Richard D. Kinder acquired 750,000 shares of this oil & gas pipelines company, paying $18.14 per share for a total amount of $13.61 million. Mr. Kinder increased his stake by 0.32% to 236,177,613 shares with this purchase.